SOUND ASSESSMENT DESIGN IN ACTION
Think about the content, skills and processes you teach in your classroom and answer the three questions below.
What content information and simple skills do you teach in your classroom that would lend itself well to being assessed by using SR items?
What concepts, principles and processes do you teach in your classroom that would lend itself well to being assessed by the use of CR items?
When might you ask students to do a PT to show their application of multiple skills and processes?
Evaluating Your Test
- Collectively, do the assessment items produce the necessary evidence to determine whether or not the student has mastered the standard(s) targeted for assessment?
- Are the assessment items the most appropriate type to use to measure the targeted standard?
- Do the assessment items require students to demonstrate the same level of rigor as specified by the targeted standard?
- Are the items worded clearly and concisely?
- Are the directions written so students clearly understand what they are to do?
- Are the items free of any type of bias?
After administering the post-assessment, completing an item analysis and looking at student results can help teachers improve their test writing skills. Additionally, looking at student results can give teachers ideas as to improvements that need to be made in instruction and/or curriculum.