Cabugwang, Eunicia Veron M.

III – BEED
Subject: Assessment in Learning 1

Exercise 6:
1. What are teacher-made tests?
Answer: Teacher-made tests are designed by teachers. It is made to assess student
learning. Teacher-made tests are normally prepared and administered for testing
classroom achievement of students, evaluating the method of teaching adopted by the
teacher and other curricular programs of the school. It is prepared to measure the
outcomes and content of local curriculum.

2. Explain the guiding principles of a high quality assessment?

 Students are the key assessment users.
Answer:

3. How can a quality assessment be achieved?

Answer: High-quality assessments provide reliable and valid data to inform all users and
stakeholders, including teachers and parents, about how well students have learned and
what further instruction is needed. It is achieved by allowing students to use assessment
data to make choices about their areas of concentration and focus. It should also
provide structured assessments as well as flexible classroom assessment capabilities,
generates meaningful and actionable insights and Produce valid and reliable results.

4. Explain the five learning targets identified by Marzano and Kendall (1996)? Explain
each.
1) Knowledge and Simple Understanding – facts and concepts we want students
to know.
2) Deep Understanding and Reasoning – Use what they know to reason or solve
problems.
3) Skills – use knowledge and reasoning to act skillfully.
4) Products – use knowledge, skills and reasoning to create a concrete product.
5) Affective –

5. Explain how to define general outcomes in specific terms.

6. Explain the process of selecting assessment targets.

Exercise 7:
1. What is test?
2. Enumerate and explain the functions of a test.
3. What are the qualities of a good test instruments?
4. What is a valid test?
5. How can the validity of test be improved?
6. Enumerate and explain the types of reliability.
7. Define objectivity.
8. Explain the practicability and efficiency of assessment of student learning.
9. Discuss ethics in assessment.

Exercise 8:
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1. Define reliability.
2. How are reliability and validity related?
3. What are the major ways of establishing the reliability of a test?
Cabugwang, Eunicia Veron M.
III – BEED
Subject: Assessment in Learning 1