Classroom Assessment Chapter 9 ELED 4050 Summer 2007

Complex Achievement 1. Ability to apply a principle 2. Ability to interpret relationships 3. Ability to recognize and state inferences 4. Ability to recognize the relevance of information 5. Ability to develop and recognize tenable hypotheses 6. Ability to formulate and recognize valid conclusions 7. Ability to recognize assumptions underlying conclusions

Complex Achievement Cont. 8. Ability to recognize the limitations of data 9. Ability to recognize and state significant problems 10. Ability to design experimental procedures 11. Ability to interpret charts, tables, and data 12. Ability to evaluate arguments

Interpretive Exercise = Classification Exercise It ensures that all students will be confronted with the same task. Teachers are also able to control the amount of factual information they give to their students.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Interpretive Exercises

Advantages 1. The introductory material makes it possible to measure the ability to interpret written materials, charts, graphs, maps, pictures, and other communication media encountered in everyday situations. 2. Makes it possible to measure more complex learning outcomes 3. By having a series of related test items based on a common set of data, greater depth can be obtained in the measurement of intellectual skills. 4. Minimizes the influence of irrelevant factual information

Disadvantages 1.It is difficult to construct. 2.It requires a heavy demand on reading skill. 3.It is confined to learning outcomes at the recognition level (to measure the ability to define problems, to formulate hypothesis, etc., performance assessments must be used).

Constructing Interpreting Exercises 1. Select introductory material that is relevant to the objectives of the course. 2. Select introductory material that is appropriate to the student’s curricular experience. 3. Select introductory material that is new to students 4. Select introductory material that is brief but meaningful. 5. Revise introductory material for clarity, conciseness, and greater interpretive value.

Constructing Interpreting Exercises Cont. 6. Construct test items that require analysis and interpretation of the introductory material. 7. Make the number of test items roughly proportional to the length of the introductory material. 8. In constructing test items for an interpretive exercise, observe all pertinent suggestions for constructing objective items. 9. In constructing key-type test items, make the categories homogeneous and mutually exclusive.