I want to use a diagram to compare the traditional and authentic modes of assessment. Which one is most fit?
Affinity diagram
Mind map
Venn diagram
Fishbone diagram
A big story in your local newspaper. You want to use the headlines as an inquiry device. To increase student participation, you might begin by ____.
Asking one to read the news story and interpret what he read after
Asking the class to infer connotations and denotations from the headline
Explaining what you believe to be the underlying causes
Describing the background of the story as you know it
If a triadic interaction includes three (3) persons, how many persons are included in a dyadic interaction?
Two
Two groups composed of two persons each
One, the person and himself
Four
When I teach skills that are critical to the learning of the next topics, what should I employ?
Direct instruction
Mastery learning
Socratic method
Cooperative learning
I want my students to have mastery learning of a basic topic. Which can help?
Drill
Socratic method and drill
Morrisonian technique and drill
Teacher Feng wanted to teach the pupils the skill of cross stretching. Her check-up quiz was a written test on the steps of cross stitching. What characteristic of a good test does it lack?
Predictive validity
Objectivity
Reliability
Content validity
In the parlance of test construction, what does TOS mean?
Table of Specification
Team of Specifications
Table of Species
Terms of Specifications
If I favor “assessment for learning,” which will I do most likely? I. Conduct a pre-test results II. Teach based on pre-test results III. Give specific feedback to students IV. Conduct peer tutoring for students in need of help
I, II and IV
II, III and IV
I, II and III
I, II, III and IV
After a lesson on the atom, the students were asked to work on a physical model of the atom to determine learning. For which group of students is building an atom model intended?
Interpersonality intelligent
Kinesthetically intelligent
Mathematically intelligent
Linguistically intelligent
If I want to develop creative thinking in my students, which one/s should I use? I. Problem solving II. Brainstorming III. Dramatics
I and II
II only
III only
Which is/are effective method/s in teaching students critical reading skills?
Read and interpret three different movie reviews
Interpret editorials about a particular subject from three different newspaper
Distinguish fiction from nonfiction materials
Interpret editorials and read and interpret three different movie reviews
I want to present the characteristics of a constructivist approach. What should I use?
Narrative frame
Attribute wheel
If all of your students in your class passed the pretest, what should you do?
Administer the posttest
Go through the unit as usual because it is part of the syllabus
Go through the lesson quickly in order not to skip any
Go on to the next unit
Teacher Vicky shows her students a picture of people in thick jackets. Then she asks them to tell her the kind of climate when the picture was taken. If she asks 5 questions of this kind and her students do not get them, it is safe to conclude that pupils are quite weak in the skill of _______.
Analyzing
Inferring
Synthesizing
Generalizing
Which must go with self-assessment for it to be effective?
Scoring rubric
Consensus of evaluation results from teacher and student
External monitor
Public display of results of self-evaluation
Which group of scores is most varied? The group with ________.
0.90 SD
0.50 SD
0.10 SD
0.75 SD
The main purpose in administering a pretest and a posttest to students is to _____.
Measure gains in learning
Measure the value of the material taught
Keep adequate records
Accustom the students to frequent testing
Assessment is said to be authentic when the teacher ________.
Consider students’ suggestion in teaching
Gives valid and reliable paper-and-pencil test
Gives students real-life task to accomplish
Includes parents in the determination of assessment procedures
The following are computed means of a hundred-item test: Physical science, 38; Math, 52; English, 33. Based on the data, which is true?
The examinees seem to be very good in Physical Science
The Math test appears to be the easiest among the three
The examinees seem to excel in English
The English test appears to be the easiest among the three
An examinee whose score is within x + 1 SD belongs to which of the following groups?
Above average
Average
Below average
Needs improvement
Which is true of a bimodal distribution?
The scores are neither high nor low
The group has two different groups
The score are high
The score are low
When you reach the “plateau of learning”, what should you do?
Forget about learning
React what caused it
Force yourself to learn
Rest
What can be said if student performance in a positively skewed scores distribution?
Most students performed well
Most students performed poorly
Almost all students had averaged performance
A few students performed excellently
A number of test items in a test are said to be non-discriminating? What conclusions can be drawn? I. Teaching or learning was very good. II. The item is so easy that anyone could get it right. III. The item is so dicult that nobody could get it.
II and III
A test item has a diculty index of 0.51 and a discrimination index of 0.25. What should the teacher do?
Revise the item
Retain the item
Make it a bonus item
Reject the item
The difficulty index of a test item is 1. This means that _____________.
The test item is a quality item
The test is very difficult
The test is very easy
Nobody got the item correctly
If the compound range is low, this means that _____________.
The students performed very well in the test
The difference between the highest and the lowest score is low
The difference between the highest and the lowest score is high
The students performed very poorly in the test
What is the mastery level of a school division in a 100-item test with a mean of 55?
42%
55%
45%
50%
A negative discrimination index means that ____________.
The test item has low reliability
More from the lower group answered the test item correctly
The test item could not discriminate between the lower and upper groups
More from the upper group got the item correctly
In an entrance examination, student Anna’s Percentile is 25 (P25). Based on this Percentile rank, which is likely to happen?
Student Anna will be admitted
Student Anna will not be admitted
Student Anna has 50-50 percent chance to be admitted
Student Anna has 75 percent chance to be admitted
What does a percentile rank of 62 mean?
It is the student’s score in the tes
The student answered sixty-two (62%) of the items correctly
The student’s score is higher than 62 percent of all students who took the test
Sixty-two percent (62%) of those who took the test scored higher than the individual
What does the computer have in common with the TV?
Keyboard
File
Screen
Disk drive
Which depicts in graphic form the social relations present in a group?
Interest inventory
Sociogram
Anecdotal record
Johari’s window
Planned ignoring, signal interference, and proximity control are techniques used in _____.
Managing temper tantrums
Managing surface behavior
Operant conditioning
Life-space interviewing
What should you do to get the child’s attention when she/he is distracted by an object in the room? I. Call him by his name and tell him to pay attention II. Put away the distracting inuence III. Involve him in helping with an activity
I and III
Which practice in our present educational system is in line with Plato’s thought that “nothing learned under compulsion stays with the mind”?
Clarification of school policies and classroom rules on Day 1
Presentation of standards of performance in the learner
Making the teaching-learning process interesting
Involving the learner in the determination of learning goals
In Values Education, faith, hope, and love are believed to be permanent values whether they be valued by people or not. Upon what philosophy is this anchored?
Realism
Existentialism
Idealism
Pragmatism
In the schools, we teach realities that cannot be verified by the senses like an Invisible God or Allah. Whose beliefs does this practice negate?
Stoicists’
Rationalists’
Skeptics’
Empiricists’
Which emphasized on non-violence as the path to true peace as discussed in peace education?
Taoism
Buddhism
Hinduism
Shintoism
I make full use of the question-and-answer as a model for discussion. From whom is this question-and-answer method?
Socrates
Kant
Aristotle
Plato
A wife who loves her husband dearly becomes so jealous that in a moment of savage rage, kills him. Is the wife morally responsible and why?
Not necessarily. Antecedent passion may completely destroy freedom and consequently moral responsibility
Yes, she killed her husband simply because of jealousy
It depends on the case of the wife’s jealousy
It depends on the mental health of the wife
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Man may understand all about the rotation of the earth but he may still miss the radiance of the sunset.” Which type of education should be emphasized as implied by Martin Luther King Jr.?
Science and education
Vocational education
Liberal education
Technical education
Computer-assisted instruction is an offshoot of the theory of _____.
Piaget
Brunner
Skinner
Watson
The use of varied teaching and testing strategies on account of students’ multiple intelligences is in line with the thoughts of ______.
Daniel Goleman
Jean Piaget
Howard Gardner
Benjamin Bloom
Applying Confucius’s teachings, how would hiring personnel select the most t in government positions?
By record evaluation done by an accrediting body
By government examinations
By accreditation
By merit system
“Moral example has a greater effect on pupils’ discipline than laws and codes of punishment” is an advice of teachers from _________.
Confucius
Mohammed
Lao Tzu
Mencius
“The principle of spontaneity against articiality will make you accomplish something. Leave nature to itself and you will have harmony” is an active advice from the _____.
Hindu
Taoist
Shintoist
Buddhist
The significance of liberal education in holistic development of students is supported by _____.
Perennialism
Confucian teaching
Perennialism and Confucian philosophy
Is a sick teacher, the only one assigned in a remote school, excused from her teaching duty?
No, she is the only one assigned in that school
Yes, teaching is a demanding job
Yes, she is sick
No, she must abide by her contract
What is a demonstration of your authority as a professional teacher?
You make your pupils run errands for you
You decide on how to teach a particular lesson
You absent from class to enjoy your leave even without prior notice
You select to teach only those lessons which you have mastered