Principles of Educational Psychology

Which one of the following statements accurately describes the effect of classroom tests on students' motivation?

Which one of the following is considered an ideal use for teacher-developed assessments in relation to diagnosing learning and performance problems?

A classroom teacher and school psychologist are conferring about Gregory, a boy who works very hard in class yet shows consistently poor performance in any assignments that require reading or writing.Which sources of data should the teacher and psychologist look at as they try to pinpoint the source of Gregory's difficulty?

Which one of the following would typically be most appropriate for assessing the specific things students have learned in a three-week unit about rocks and minerals?

The publisher of a standardized test of reading comprehension gives the test to the same group of students on two different occasions.The publisher computes the correlation coefficient between the two sets of scores and obtains a coefficient of .93.Teachers who read this information in the test manual should conclude that the test has:

If we say that a particular classroom assessment instrument is highly reliable, we mean that it:

An example of performance assessment is:

On a weekly quiz, Mr.Harris asks students in his auto mechanics class to figure out what is wrong with a car when it has a certain set of "symptoms." His students have never considered this particular combination of symptoms before, but they know everything they need to know in order to determine what must be wrong.Mr.Harris's test question illustrates using classroom assessment as a:

Which one of the following is most likely to be what educators refer to as a standardized test?

If students complain that a history test was not a good reflection of what they knew, then the test may have low:

Which one of the following is the best example of authentic assessment of students' knowledge of ten spelling words?

The "P" in the "RSVP" characteristic of good assessment stands for:

Ms.Donato begins each new unit with a pre-test.This is an example of:

Which of the following teachers is not using a strategy that is likely to increase the reliability of a classroom assessment instrument?

Which one of the following is the best example of summative evaluation?

Which one of the following best characterizes how confidence intervals are used in reporting students' scores on standardized tests?

An example of informal assessment is:

Which one of the following is not consistent with the definition of assessment in the textbook?

Three of the following are questions that arise when considering the standardization of an assessment instrument.Which question is not an aspect of standardization?

Midway through a unit on how mountains are formed, Mr.McDonald gives a brief quiz to find out what students do and do not understand.He plans to focus the next few classes on the things about which students are most confused.Mr.McDonald's quiz exemplifies: