Testing 1
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- Pressures for accountability have resulted in increased school testing.
- true
- The rapid growth of minimum competency testing requirements in the 1970's and early 1980's was stimulated by widely held belief that high school grads often lacked essential skills.
- true
- There is public support for the use of test results to compare schools.
- true
- The "Lake Wobegon Effect" clearly demonstrated that test based comparisons of schools has improved education.
- false
- Concerns that accountability leads to teaching to the test have contributed to calls for increased reliance on performance based assessments.
- true
- Content standards specify the minimum score required to pass a test.
- false
- The belief that testing and assessment shapes instruction has led to increased emphasis on performance assessments.
- agree
- Authentic assessment is routinely achieved by the introduction of performance assessments.
- disagree
- Many proponents of performance assessments accept the idea that "what you test is what you get".
- agree
- Tasks requiring extended responses have been the target of most criticisms of testing and assessment.
- disagree
- Anything that can be measured by a performance assessment task could also be measured by a multiple choice test.
- disagree
- The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) enables schools to compare the performance of the students to the nation as a whole.
- false
- NAEP has provided a means of monitoring trends in achievement of students for 25 years.
- true
- In addition to national results, NAEP now provides results for state by state comparisons on a voluntary basis.
- true
- NAEP collects achievement data for students by both age and grade level.
- true
- Comparisons of nations based on international assessments are as trustworthy as comparisons of regions of the country based on NAEP results.
- false
- Comparibility of results in international assessments is assured by translating assessments to the languages spoken in different countries.
- false
- Computers are especially useful for adaptive testing.
- agree
- Computer administered simulations of problems enable the measurement of complex skills not readily measured by paper and pencil tests.
- agree
- Despite concern about the quality of scholl programs, there has been a demand for less testing and assessment.
- disagree
- Computerized adaptive tests increase the efficiency by reducing the number of items that need to be administered to achieve reliable measurement for a given test taker.
- agree
- The focus on the consequences of testing and assessment has decreased in recent years.
- disagree
- The computer provides the potential to present simulations that can measure the processes that students use to solve problems.
- agree
- Many of the criticisms of testing are the result of misinterpretation and misuse of test scores.
- agree
- A common misinterpretation of scores on tests and assessments is to assume they measure more than they do.
- agree
- Testing does not have any undesireable effects on students.
- disagree
- If a particular group receives lower scores on a test, it means the test is biased against members of that group.
- disagree
- It is good practice to post scores on standardized tests so that students in a class can see how their performance compares to that of their peers.
- disagree
- Test anxiety may lower the performance of some students.
- agree