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GOOD ASSESSMENT

READ TEH STORY BELOW. SOME OF THE WORDS HAVE BEEN LEFT OUT ONPURPOSE. FILL IN THE BLANKS THAT WILL MAKE THE STORY MAKE SENSE.

Gwendolyn and Sharrie were about to take the _______ test of their lives. It was a long

 ____________ test and they had to be able to divide a 4 digit by 1 digit number. __________ of them had been working hard on this skill. Gwendolyn was __________ in Math and

Sharrie was __________ at reading and writing skills.

Their ______________, Mrs. Lawton had worked very _________ to teach them this math

skill. Gwendolyn was _______ she knew how to do the problems _____________.

Sharrie was a little ____________ and hoped she could remember each step. Mrs. Lawton ________out the test___________ and everyone was very ______________. Gwendolyn

smiled at Sharrie and whispered " __________________," Sharrie _________ back at her and went to __________ on her test. The children had thirty _________ to complete the

fifteen _______________. Everyone was quiet and were _______________ on doing their 

 best ___________.

Soon Mrs. ________took up the test papers and told everyone to take a fifteen minute

 _________. She would _________ the papers while they were gone. Mrs. Lawson came

outside and called the students ________ the classroom. She had a big __________ on her 

face and started to call each student's _____________ to pick up their papers. Sharrie's name

was __________ third. She went to ________ her paper and looked down at the __________ 

on the top of the ____________. It was an _________ and a comment was _____________ 

 by Mrs. Lawson with a big smiling face on it. Sharrie could not believe she had _________ 

an A. Gwendolyn's name ______ called fifth. She walked slowly up to _________ her paper 

from Mrs. Lawson.

There at the ________ of the page was a big red _______. Gwendolyn almost _________ all

the way back to her _______.

She knew she was ___________ at division, she just couldn't believe she didn't miss a single

 problem. School was _________ for the ________ of the day.

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Source: http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/language_arts/cloze/1/  

8/3/2019 Examples of Good and Bad Assessments

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BAD ASSESSMENT

Here is an example of a poor item, given on a test after a unit on the planet Neptune:

1. Some scientists believe that Pluto is...

a. an escaped moon of Neptune

 b. usually the most distant planet in the solar systemc. the name of Mickey Mouse¶s dog

d. all of the above

This item is poor because a typical student will know that either a or b is true; and c is

certainly true but unrelated to the lesson. Given two right answers, d is correct and only a

minimal knowledge of the content was needed to make this distinction. In a test setting ³all of 

the above´ usually is a flag that something is unusual.

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Source: http://homepage.mac.com/astronomyteacher/dvhs/pdfs/multiplechoice.pdf