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ISO 9001:2015 NORTHERN NEGROS STATE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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ASSESSMENT 2

Name: ____________________________________________Course & Year: _________________ Score: __________

General Instructions:
Read and understand each item correctly.
Strictly no erasure. Erasures are considered wrong answers.
Wrong spelling is wrong.

MULTIPLE CHOICE:
Encircle the letter of the statement, name, or word that best corresponds to the idea pointed out in each
number.

1. Which of the following learning domains deals with the acquisition of knowledge?

A) Cognitive

B) Affective

C) Psychomotor

D) Social

2. Which of the following theorists identified the three domains of learning?

A) B.F. Skinner

B) Jean Piaget

C) Benjamin Bloom

D) Lev Vygotsky

3. Which of the following learning domains relates to the development of a person's value system?

A) cognitive

B) affective

C) psychomotor

D) social

4. Using operational definitions answers which question?

A) who

B) why
 C) what

D) how

5. Explaining a student's poor performance on an exam to the unfair difficulty level of the questions refers
to what kind of cause?

A) immediate, external cause

B) immediate, internal cause

C) developmental cause

D) necessary and sufficient cause

E) weak cause

6. A statement of the intended general outcome of an instructional program is _______?

A) Aim

B) Goal

C) Objective

D) purpose

7. The phase of evaluation process that assist the teacher in modify the method of evaluation?

A) Preparation phase

B) Assessment phase

C) Reflection phase

D) Evaluation phase

8. The test that help the examiner to measure the student’s ability to identify whether statements of fact
are accurate or not?

A) Multiple choice questions

B) True/false questions

C) Matching questions

D) Ranking questions

9. The educational domain that relates to the emotional component of learning, and is concerned with
changes or growth in values and attitudes?

A) Psychomotor domain.

B) Affective domain.

C) Cognitive domain.
 D) Communicative domain.

10. Interactive Software is type of ______________?

A) Audio instructional media

B) Audio/Visual instructional media

C) Visual instructional media

D) Kinesthetic instructional media

11. Which of the following best describes what is meant by ‘formative assessment’?

A) is based on the student’s attitudes, interests and values

B) is designed primarily to evaluate learning

C) is usually high‐stakes

D) provides information to modify teaching and learning*

12. A teacher uses a strategy called Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down with her students. This illustrates the use
of:

A) affective assessment

B) formative assessment*

C) diagnostic assessment

D) summative assessment

13. According to Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, what is ‘accommodation’?

A) the ability to think logically

B) the diminishing of a response to a frequently repeated stimulus

C) altering one’s existing schemas as a result of new information*

D) an inability to understand perspectives besides one’s own

14. James’ teacher, Mrs. Santos is preparing to explain the test results to James’ parents. Which of the
following represents a correct interpretation of the results?

A) James did as well or better than 12% of students in his class

B) James did as well or better than 12% of 4th class students nationally*

C) James did better than 81% of 4th class students nationally

D) James did better than 81% of students in his class

15. What additional information would be most important for Mrs. Santos to communicate to James’
parents to help them fully understand the meaning of these results?

A) James’ raw score on the standardized test

B) The mean standard score for the class

C) James’ performance in everyday reading activities*

D) James’ standardized scores from last year

16. The content of a portfolio is largely based on

A) the length of the portfolio

B) the characteristics of the student evaluated

C) the goal and purpose of the portfolio

D) none of the above

17. Which of the following is not an example of performance assessment?

A) Playing the piano

B) Completing a multiple-choice test

C) Solving a practical math problem

D) All of the above are examples

18. One criticism of performance assessment is____?

A) it is too radical a departure from traditional assessment

B) it is too time-consuming

C) it is too similar to criterion-referenced testing

D) it is not comprehensive enough

19. Which of the following is not true of authentic assessment?

A) It's distinction with performance assessment for students is not clear

B) Good for classroom assessment

C) Good for accountability purposes

D) Must involve "valued performances"

20. Which of the following is not considered an advantage of performance assessment?

A) It can help motivate students

B) It is useful for integrated subject matter

 C) It is time efficient

D) It is useful for curricula emphasizing applied reasoning skills

21. In general, which of the following is not true about performance assessment?

A) It requires subjectivity in scoring

B) It can be expensive

C) It provides objective, reliable information

D) It can be time-consuming

22. Which of the following is not true about portfolio assessment?

A) The student is usually involved in selecting material to be included

B) It samples tasks regularly performed in a natural context

C) Raw data and summary data are usually included

D) All of the above are true.

23. Which of the following is the first decision that needs to be made when developing a portfolio?

A) What goes in it?

B) How and when are the entries selected?

C) What should it look like?

D) How is the portfolio evaluated?

24. In portfolio assessment, a benchmark is used to

A) increase the validity of a rubric

B) increase the reliability of a rubric

C) increase the length of a rubric

D) increase the number of criteria of a rubric

25. A systematic collection of a student’s work assembled over an extended period of time is known as a

A) performance-based assessment.

B) check list.

C) interview.

D) portfolio assessment.
26. Which of the following scoring system is useful for use with performance-based, authentic, and
portfolio assessments?

A) norms.

B) rubrics.

C) note-taking.

D) running record.

27. Assessments that have a potential impact on the student’s future are

A) not part of the graduation requirements.

B) high-stakes assessments.

C) low-stakes assessments.

D) not critically dependent on issues of reliability.

28. Research suggests that teachers spend about how much of their professional time dealing with matters
of assessment?

A) 5-10%

B) 10-20%

C) 20-30%

D) 30-50%

29. Which of the following activities provides the best example of pre-instruction assessment?

A) Looking over students' prior grades in the subject of interest.

B) Asking students to clarify answers given during class.

C) Monitoring students' progress toward reaching learning targets.

D) Reporting assessment results for school-level analysis.

30. Which of the following activities provides the best example of formative assessment?

A) Observing students' nonverbal behavior to learn about their abilities and interests.

B) Describing the extent to which students have achieved instructional goals and objectives.

C) Communicating students' strengths and weaknesses to parents.

D) Identifying difficulties that students are experiencing and offer advice.

31. Which of the following questions offers the best example of a thinking-based item designed to assess
students' ability to evaluate?

A) Give one example of a situation that demonstrates Newton's first law of motion.
 B) Identify one weakness in the argument that deforestation will enhance the greenhouse
effect.

C) Were dinosaurs warm-blooded?

D) Why do birds fly?

32. Which of the following terms describes the extent to which an assessment provides a reasonable
sample of what actually occurs in the classroom?

A) Content-related evidence

B) Pluralistic assessment

C) Instructional validity

D) Item discrimination

33. When writing multiple choice test items for an exam, all of the following strategies are recommended
EXCEPT:

A) Make sure that alternatives are grammatically correct.

B) Use the same wording as the textbook.

C) Make every effort to write the stem as a question.

D) Include as much of the item as possible in the stem.

34. An item is considered poor if its item discrimination index falls in which of the following ranges?

A) 0 to .19

B) 0.2 to .39

C) 4 to .69

D) 70 to 1.0

35. Which of the following offers a good example of a constructed-response item?

A) True-false questions

B) Matching items

C) Multiple-choice items

D) Essay items

36. Which of the following item formats is an example of a performance assessment?

A) Multiple choice

B) Matching
 C) True/false

D) Essay

37. A best-work portfolio

A) documents the student's growth during a given school year.

B) documents the student's growth over a period of several years.

C) is a collection of the student's most outstanding work.

D) includes only the student's most outstanding piece of work.

38. Portfolios offer teachers

A) an opportunity to evaluate students' improvement.

B) a simple means of establishing criteria and assigning grades.

C) a means of comparing one student's work with another student's work.

D) the opportunity to treat skills in isolated contexts.

39. In TED’s third period algebra course, her teacher uses grading to evaluate students' need for remedial
work before moving on to the next skill. This fulfills the __________ function of grading.

A) administrative

B) informational

C) motivational

D) guidance

40. Mr. Lopez consistently compares students' scores with those of their peers. This is a good example of

A) norm-referenced grading.

B) criteria-referenced grading.

C) standards-based grading.

D) none of the above.

41. Detractors usually argue that grades

A) lack reliability and validity.

B) undermine students' self-esteem.

C) lead to an overly competitive classroom atmosphere.

D) serve no valid educational purpose.

42. The sixth-grade English teachers at Fort Henry Elementary School maintain test item files of
instructionally valid and reliable test questions. This is an example of

A) item banking.

B) norm-referenced testing.

C) criterion-referenced testing.

D) constructed-tests.

43. Mr. Santillan utilizes electronic portfolios in his literature class. What materials might he have students
include in their portfolios?

A) Critical writing samples

B) Unit test scores

C) PowerPoint Presentations

D) All of the above.

44. Aurbach's Cirady Profile, Hyperstudio, and Filemaker Pro are all

A) portfolios.

B) performance-based assessments.

C) electronic portfolios.

D) electronic record-keeping tools.

45. Ms. Sison uses a program on the Internet to input and monitor data concerning her students' academic
progress. Ms. Sison uses a

A) web-based assessment.

B) portfolio assessment.

C) performance assessment.

D) summative assessment.

46. Mr. Sabio developed a rating scale for evaluating his students' history dioramas. This rating scale is
called

A) a checklist.

B) an answer key.

C) performance criteria.

D) a scoring rubric.
47. When writing multiple-choice items, Mrs. Katalbas includes three incorrect responses and one correct
response for each item. The incorrect answers are called

A) stems.

B) distractors.

C) statements.

D) diversions.

48. Which of the following statements best describes current views about assessment?

A) Assessment should be integrated throughout the instructional process.

B) Assessment should be implemented at the conclusion of a particular lesson or unit of study.

C) Assessment should only be implemented by teachers who are specially trained in the areas
of traditional and alternative assessments.

D) None of the above.

49. The majority of Mr. Robinson's students come from low socioeconomic backgrounds and have little
experience with the world beyond their neighborhoods. He is concerned about fairness in standardized
testing. Mr. Robinson feels that performance assessment should be used during and after instruction to
supplement standardized testing. This type of assessment is called

A) formative assessment.

B) objective assessment.

C) pluralistic assessment.

D) traditional assessment.

50. Which of the following would be considered a summative assessment?

A) Science quiz

B) Personality test

C) Rubric for multimedia project

D) Standardized reading test