Lesson One—General Assessment Principles and Test-Construction Guidelines

• Define test, assessment, measurement, and alternative assessment
• State the purposes of classroom assessment
  
• Define target performance objective
• Explain the relationship between assessment and target performance objectives
• Define and explain formative and summative assessment
  
• State ten general test-construction guidelines
  

Lesson Two—Constructing True/False and Matching Tests

• Identify the advantages and disadvantages of true/false tests
  
• State five guidelines for constructing true/false tests
  
• Construct a true/false test
  
• State the advantages and disadvantages of matching tests
  
• Name five guidelines for constructing matching tests
• Construct a matching test
• Define a matching test question "distractor"
• Illustrate how target performance objectives align with true/false test questions
• Illustrate how target performance objectives align with matching test questions

Lesson Three—Constructing Sentence-Completion/Short-Answer and Multiple-Choice Tests

• Identify the advantages and disadvantages of sentence-completion/short-answer tests
• Name ten guidelines for constructing sentence-completion/short-answer questions
• Construct a sentence-completion/short-answer test
• Identify the advantages and disadvantages of multiple-choice tests
• Name ten guidelines for constructing multiple-choice questions
• Construct a multiple-choice test
• Define multiple-choice distractors
• Illustrate how target performance objectives align with sentence-completion/short-answer and multiple-choice test questions

Lesson Four—Writing Essay Questions

• Identify the advantages and disadvantages of essay tests
• Identify eight guidelines for constructing essay tests
• Construct an essay test
• Identify essay qualifiers
• Illustrate how target performance objectives align with essay test questions

Lesson Five—Rubrics, Portfolios, and Other Alternative Assessments

• Define rubric
  
• Discuss the assessment benefits of rubrics
• Evaluate an expository essay rubric and a paragraph rubric
• Define portfolio
• Describe different types of portfolios
• Explain how portfolios are evaluated
• Describe a classroom portfolio open house
• Define journal, checklist, rating scale, poster, simulation, and prompt