EDUC 415 Quiz Problem Solving
EDUC 415 Quiz: Problem Solving and Critical Thinking
Covers the Textbook material from Module 3: Week 3.
- A possible way to directly assess the ability to ask and answer challenging questions is by observing a student during his/her presentation and during someone else’s presentation.
- Students should be assessed by requiring them to reproduce what was taught in class.
- What do context-dependent item sets do?
- Why is it dicult to craft items to assess understanding of a defined concept by requiring students to classify several examples?
- Which of the following best assesses the rule- governed thinking students use when constructing an evidence-based argument from text?
- Context-dependent assessment material should be arranged so that the items appear before the interpretive material.
- Which of the following scoring options is most appropriate to evaluate students’ responses to a task intended to assess students’ problem-solving abilities?
- Which of the following is the best way to assess the concept “bicycle”?
- You can assess a student’s ability to induce and to judge induction by using either the response-choice or the constructed-response item format.
- What is the most important reason for rewriting introductory materials for items assessing the ability to use reference materials?
- To assess problem-solving skills, you should present to the student a novel situation.
- What is an open-response assessment task?
- A teacher administers an in-class test containing five restricted response essays. How would you advise her to score the tests?
- When teaching students to write, it is entirely appropriate to use only the ideas and organization rubrics to evaluate students’ first drafts.
- Giving feedback in the form of a general letter grade on assessments of student writing is an example of integrating assessment and instruction.
- Which of the following learning objectives can be assessed more appropriately using objective items rather than essay items?
- Which of the following is NOT a way that technology has changed writing assessment?
- Other things being equal, an extended response essay is more likely to be reliably scored than a restricted response essay.
- How are extended response essay items best used in the classroom?
- Noble covered up her students’ names before she scored their essays. What problem is she most likely trying to avoid?
- On which trait should you focus your assessment at the revision stage of the writing process?
- Which of the following is it LEAST important for you to specify in an essay item intended to assess students’ ability to evaluate a debate in which the debaters express their opinions?
- The validity of the results from a restricted response essay item will tend to be lower than those from an extended response essay item.
- Which of the following formats best assesses higher-order thinking processes students use to solve problems?
- Suppose correctness of spelling is not part of the learning objective being assessed with an essay test. How should spelling be handled when scoring the essays?