.Assessment

01. Evaluation conducted by an evaluator outside the organization or institution within which the project is housed is called:

A. Third party evaluation
B. Internal evaluation
C. External evaluation
D. Unbiased evaluation

Ans: C. External evaluation

02. An evaluation for which the design includes the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods for data collection and analysis is often termed:

A. Mixed-method evaluation
B. Accumulative evaluation
C. Summative evaluation
D. None of the above

Ans: A. Mixed-method evaluation

03. Sometimes the evaluation is done through the process of direct sensory inspection involving trained observers, which is called:

A. Observation
B. Inspection
C. Evaluation
D. None of the above

Ans: A. Observation

04. A method of assessing what skills students or other project participants have acquired by examining how they accomplish complex tasks or the quality of the products they have created (e.g., poetry, artwork) is:

A. Authentic evaluation
B. Alternative evaluation
C. Performance evaluation
D. None of the above

Ans: C. Performance evaluation

05. Prompt reminders used by the evaluators are:

A. Examiners
B. Interviewers
C. Evaluators
D. All of the above

Ans: D. All of the above

06. The approach to evaluation that is primarily descriptive and interpretative is called:

A. Quantitative evaluation
B. Qualitative evaluation
C. Descriptive evaluation
D. None of the above

Ans: B. Qualitative evaluation

07. The approach to evaluation involving the use of numerical measurement and data analysis based on statistical methods is called:

A. Quantitative evaluation
B. Qualitative evaluation
C. Descriptive evaluation
D. None of the above

Ans: A. Quantitative evaluation

08. A questionnaire or report completed by a study participant without the assistance of an interviewer is a:

A. Personal instrument
B. Self-administered instrument
C. Self-evaluation instrument
D. None of the above

Ans: B. Self-administered instrument

09. In an evaluation, an attempt to get corroboration on a phenomenon or measurement by approaching it from several independent sources is called:

A. Multiplication
B. Angulation
C. Triangulation
D. None of the above

Ans: C. Triangulation

10. Triangulation is basically an effort that provides:

A. Extraordinary measurement
B. Ordinary measurement
C. Confirmatory measurement
D. None of the above

Ans: C. Confirmatory measurement

11. The process of revisiting the data as many times as necessary to cross-check or confirm the conclusions that were drawn is known as:

A. Verification
B. Validation
C. Confirmation
D. None of the above

Ans: A. Verification

12. The use of standardized tests to evaluate the current performance of a person in some defined domain of cognitive, psychomotor, or physical functioning is termed as:

A. Proficiency testing
B. Capacity testing
C. Ability testing
D. Performance testing

Ans: D. Performance testing

13. The level of an individual’s or group’s competence in some defined criterion domain as inferred from the test score is:

A. Absolute score interpretation
B. Actual score interpretation
C. Maximum score interpretation
D. Negligible score interpretation

Ans: A. Absolute score interpretation

14. A reasonable modification in an assessment instrument or its administration made to compensate for the effects of a qualified disability without changing the purpose of the assessment instrument is called:

A. Modification
B. Extension
C. Accommodation
D. Exclusion

Ans: C. Accommodation

15. Descriptions of student or adult competency in a particular subject area are:

A. Achievement levels
B. Proficiency levels
C. Both A & B
D. None of the above

Ans: C. Both A & B

16. Proficiency levels are usually defined as ordered categories on a:

A. Likert scale
B. Questionnaire
C. Continuum
D. None of the above

Ans: C. Continuum

17. A sequential form of individual testing in which successive items in the test are chosen based primarily on the psychometric properties and content of the items and the participant’s response to previous items is called:

A. Accommodative testing
B. Adaptive testing
C. Fixed testing
D. None of the above

Ans: B. Adaptive testing

18. Two or more versions of a test that are considered interchangeable, in that they measure the same constructs, are intended for the same purposes, and are administered using the same directions, are:

A. Parallel forms
B. Same forms
C. Standardized forms
D. Alternate forms

Ans: D. Alternate forms

19. Parallel forms have equal:

A. Raw score means
B. Standard deviations
C. Correlations
D. All of the above

Ans: D. All of the above

20. The procedure in which the judgment of each critical dimension of performance is undertaken separately and the resultant values are combined for an overall score is called:

A. Analytic scoring procedure
B. Standard scoring procedure
C. Multifaceted scoring procedure
D. None of the above

Ans: A. Analytic scoring procedure