ASSESSMENT QUIZ FOR TEACHERS

1. Which word should not be used in the question part of a multiple choice test? 

    A. if   B. never  C. sometimes   D. why

2. Which type of assessment best qualifies as “formative?”
   A. multiple choice   B. matching quiz   C. essay test   D. pop quiz

3. Test validity refers to:
    A. consistency among different administrations.
    B. the degree in which a test truly measures what is intended it to measure.
    C. the agreement of pretest and posttest results.
    D. basing a test on correct standards.

4. An important disadvantage of a true-false test is:
    A. They are usually ambiguous.
    B. They tend to sample a limited amount of content.
    C. Scores tend to be unrealistically high.
    D. Bloom’s Taxonomy does not apply.

5. The most difficult part of writing a multiple choice test is:
    A. keying the test to standards.
    B. addressing high level thinking skills.
    C. writing proper “distractors.”
    D. Avoiding negative stems.

6. Which test type is best for addressing application, synthesis, analysis, and evaluation 

    levels of thinking? 

    A.  fill in the blanks    B. matching   C.  true-false    D. multiple choice.

7. Most studies regarding changing test answers on multiple choice tests indicate that:
    A. the newly selected answer will almost always be wrong.
    B. the newly selected answer will be right most of the time.
    C. students will change back to the first answer selected.
    D. changing the answer twice will improve chances of a correct choice by about 40%.

8. The best argument for not grading homework is that:
    A. homework is a formative assessment.
    B. homework is a summative assessment.
    C. homework takes too much time to grade.
    D. homework is usually not related to standards.

9. Regarding “pop quizzes,” which statement is most accurate?
    A. Pop quizzes should have less than 10 items.
    B. Pop quizzes should be short-answer questions answered in no more than two   

         sentences. 

    C. Pop quizzes should not be graded?
    D. Pop quizzes help keep students on task from day to day.

10. Which type of assessment is least useful in evaluating most student progress?
    A. self-assessment.
    B. essay questions.
    C. tests containing different types of questions.
    D. homework.

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