Jennifer Scholl

October 3, 2013

Multiple Choice Questions (12 pts): Please circle the best answer.
1. Pick the best written MCQ:
A. In Cinderella, she rides a _____ to the ball.
C. In Cinderella, she rides a ___ to the ball.
i.
pumpkin
i. peach
ii.
carriage
ii. squash
iii.
horse
iii. carriage
iv. car
iv. watermelon
B. In Cinderella, she rides a _____ to the ball. D. In Cinderella, she rides a ___ to the ball.
i.
carriage
i. bus
ii.
car
ii. wagon
iii.
wagon
iii. car
iv. taxi
iv. taxi
2. In the following MCQ, what is the mistake made?
In Harry Potter, Harry gets guidance from _________.
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.

A.
B.
C.
D.

Sirius Black
Dumbledore
Ronald Wesley
Neville Longbottom

Double answer
3 for 1 split
Extraneous cues
Giveaway distractors

3. Inter-rater reliability means that there is inconsistency in grades because of:

A.
B.
C.
D.

Change within the grader

Change between two graders
Change in the administration
Change within the student

True/False (12 pts): In the space provided, write T if the statement is true or F if the statement is
false.

Jennifer Scholl
October 3, 2013

_____ 1. Supply questions are questions where the teacher supplies the answers for the students.
_____ 2. When creating test questions, teachers should control for guessing by adding a larger
number of questions.
_____ 3. Backwards design is used when a teacher plans an assessment off of what they want the
student to learn.
Matching (16 pts): Write the letter of the response in the space beside the definition.
_____ 1. The assessment mirrors real life.

A. Practicality

_____ 2. The assessment is easy to administer.

B. Reliability

_____ 3. The assessment is used for feedback.

C. Validity

_____ 4. The assessment tests what its supposed to.

D. Authenticity
E. Washback

Short Answer (18 pts): Answer the questions to the best of your abilities.
1. In a complete sentence, state a similarity between cloze and gap-fill questions. (5pts)
2. In 1 paragraph, write at least 1 pro and 1 con for using standardized tests. (13 pts)

Essay (42 pts): In at least 3 paragraphs, explain the difference between supply questions and
selection questions. Be sure to include at least 3 pros and 3 cons for each.

Jennifer Scholl
October 3, 2013

Reflection
Each one of the questions has specific pros and cons for ELL students. My multiple
choice questions are written so that the students just need to know the key concepts and
vocabulary. This way they do not need to know a huge amount of English in order to show that
they understand the content. The only problem with these questions is that it is easy for them to
guess the answer and if the students get it wrong I have no way of knowing why or how I can
help them understand the information better.
My true or false questions came next. These questions were a lot easier for me to write,
but they are also easier for students to guess on. However, the students still do not need to
supply the answers and that is good if they are still new to English. They are also written so that
the students, if they know the information, can answer these questions quickly.
I enjoy the matching questions because I feel that the students really need to know the
differences between the five basic principles of assessments. With each definition written in the
same style they were really testing the content knowledge of the students. They are still good for
ELLs because there is not any written answer they have to supply.
For my short answer questions, I wanted to give two different lengths. The first one the
students only had to supply a sentence to answer the questions. This was just to see if the student
knew what the cloze and gap-fill questions were. For the second one, the students needed to
write a short paragraph about standardized tests. This was good for ELLs because they were able
to write whatever they wanted about standardized tests as long as one thing was good and one
was bad, the rest was up to them. However, both of these questions are harder for ELLs that
arent good at writing because they had to provide the answer.

Jennifer Scholl
October 3, 2013

For the essay, I struggled a lot. I finally decided that the essay directions needed to be
very specific on what I was looking for so that the student knew what they had to do. I also used
the same concept in a true or false question, but felt that it was ok because this question went into
more detail than the true or false one. The problem with this question though is that the students
need to provide a lot of English language to answer it. I felt like I dealt with this problem by
making sure that they had everything they needed to write was explicitly stated in the prompt.
When creating this test I had trouble making questions easy to understand for ELLs. I
also had a hard time dealing with the level of content that the questions were asking about and
how to make it accessible to ELLs. I finally decided that to be able to take the test, and be in the
class, that the students had to have been able to read the books. I believe that these questions are
written at a level no higher than that of the book so they should be manageable for the students in
the class.
One other way to assess students understanding of this content would be to create a VennDiagram. I am a fan of group work so I would have the students working in small groups to
compare types of questions. There could be three different Venn-Diagrams, one for supply
questions, one for selection questions, and one to compare the two types of questions. There
could be three groups, one for each Venn-Diagram, and after they work together to fill it out, the
groups would switch and do a jig-saw type activity where each new group would have at least
one person with each Venn-Diagram and they would discuss each one. This would allow
students to use their language skills to talk about the content. It also has them comparing the
question types, so it proves that they understand the material learned in the section. A problem
with this assessment is that because it is group work, I would not be able to know what
individuals know specifically.

Jennifer Scholl
October 3, 2013

Jennifer Scholl
October 3, 2013

Desired Results
Key Understandings:
1.
2.
3.
4.

The 5 cornerstones of testing

Supply v.s. selection type questions
Standardized tests
Background Desin

What I want them to know:

1. The five main ones and their definitions (practicality, reliability, validity, authenticity,
washback)
2. Selection types are true/false, multiple choice, matching. Supply are gap-fill, short
answer, or essay. Pros and cons of both
3. Pros and cons for standardized tests.
4. Purpose of backwards design
Essential questions:
1. What are the five cornerstones of testing and why are they important?
2. What are the differences between supply and selection questions and why do we use
them?
3. Why are standardized tests used?
4. Why is backwards design important when creating assessments? What does it do?