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Table of Contents

Lesson One—General Assessment Principles and Test-Construction Guidelines

  • Define test, assessment, measurement, and alternative assessment
  • State the purposes of classroom assessment
  • Define target performance objective
  • Explain the relationship between assessment and target performance objectives
  • Define and explain formative and summative assessment
  • State ten general test-construction guidelines

Lesson Two—Constructing True/False and Matching Tests

  • Identify the advantages and disadvantages of true/false tests
  • State five guidelines for constructing true/false tests
  • Construct a true/false test
  • State the advantages and disadvantages of matching tests
  • Name five guidelines for constructing matching tests
  • Construct a matching test
  • Define a matching test question "distractor"
  • Illustrate how target performance objectives align with true/false test questions
  • Illustrate how target performance objectives align with matching test questions

Lesson Three—Constructing Sentence-Completion/Short-Answer and Multiple-Choice Tests

  • Identify the advantages and disadvantages of sentence-completion/short-answer tests
  • Name ten guidelines for constructing sentence-completion/short-answer questions
  • Construct a sentence-completion/short-answer test
  • Identify the advantages and disadvantages of multiple-choice tests
  • Name ten guidelines for constructing multiple-choice questions
  • Construct a multiple-choice test
  • Define multiple-choice distractors
  • Illustrate how target performance objectives align with sentence-completion/short-answer and multiple-choice test questions

Lesson Four—Writing Essay Questions

  • Identify the advantages and disadvantages of essay tests
  • Identify eight guidelines for constructing essay tests
  • Construct an essay test
  • Identify essay qualifiers
  • Illustrate how target performance objectives align with essay test questions

Lesson Five—Rubrics, Portfolios, and Other Alternative Assessments

  • Define rubric
  • Discuss the assessment benefits of rubrics
  • Evaluate an expository essay rubric and a paragraph rubric
  • Define portfolio
  • Describe different types of portfolios
  • Explain how portfolios are evaluated
  • Describe a classroom portfolio open house
  • Define journal, checklist, rating scale, poster, simulation, and prompt