Pre- Examination- Mock examination
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Individuals are actively involved in constructing their personal understanding of their
experiences, more concerned with learning processes than content
a) Constructivist View –
b) consumerism
c) connectivism
d) social construvist
2. What links assessment and teaching?
a) Tacher
b) Feedback
c) curricullum
d) Syllabus
3. The theory that postulates that human beings learn by mimicking others is called:
a) Social cognitive theory
b) Jeromes theory
c) Watson theory
d) Skinners theory
4. Which of the following represents correctly the Blooms taxonomy?
a) Remembering, Understanding,Applying, Analysing, Evaluating,Creating
b) Remembering, Understanding,Applying, Analysing, Evaluating,Creating
c) Remembering, Understanding,Applying, Analysing, ,Creating,Evaluating
d) Remembering, ,Applying,Understanding, Analysing, Evaluating,Creating
5. The term that is use in cogitive theory to refer – the balance between what is known and what is
currently being processed, mastery of the new material
a) Equilibration
6. Which validity checks if random selection was used in selecting test items?
a) content validity
b) concurrent Validity
c) context validity
d) Face validity validity
7. Teaching can be seen as
a) Teaching is merely imparting knowledge to students, nor merely giving advice.
b) Teaching ispassing information to the students
c) Teaching is sharing one’s own experience.
d) Teaching is the activity of facilitating learning
8. There is a problem with formative assessment since continuous assessment is frequently used
a) summatively
b) Breaks learning into manageable units
c) Allows repeated attempts to master the content of each module
d) Is not perceived as threatening (low stakes)
9. Summative assessment
a) Is the start point examination
b) Can block intended career progression(high stakes)
c) Is perceived as less threatening
d) is adminstered more frequently
10. Which of the following is associated with operant coordination?
a) Shaping
b) condition stimulus- bell
c) Unconditioned stimulus-salivation
d) Unconditioned response-food
11. ............................similar to fixed interval schedules, but the amount of time that must pass
between reinforcement varies
a) Variable Interval Schedules:
b) fixed interval issue
c) Fixed Ratio Schedules
d) Variable Ratio Schedules
12. Which term best describes that are not likely to reinforced as per operant conditioning?
a) Extinction
b) Negative reinforcement
c) Positive reinforcement
d) Punishment
13. The type of assessment that tell us what has been achieved and not is refereed to as:
a) Criterion
b) Normative
c) norminal
d) ordinal
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is concerned with arranging the external events(external to the mind) that supports
internal process(internal to the mind).
15. Professional competence according to Miller progress from.
a) Knows, Knows How,Show how, Does
b) Knows,,Show how, Knows How, Does
c) Knows,Show how, , Does,Knows How
d) Knows How,Knows,Show How,Does
16. According to AcAschroft and Foreman- Peck (1994) what is a key element in the effective
management of learning than any component of the learning process?
a) Assessment
b) Curricullum change
c) Educational theories
d) Students attitude
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SECTION B
1. Outline four approaches of estimating reliability in a testi
2. Illustrate how the learning progress from low order thinking to higher order thinking using the
revised Blooms taxonomy ie remembering to creating knowledge
3. Name four classroom assessment according to Brooks (2002)
4. Outline five factors that may contribute to low reliability in a clinical set assessment.
5. Explain five assessments tools used in assessment
6. For each level of the Millers Pyramid ie at (Does, shows, knows how, Know) name three
assessment tools that you can use to assess each level.
Gagnes
1. Schema activation
2. Schema construction
3. Schema refinement
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assessing the performance
eliciting the performance
enhancing retention and transfer
gaining attention
informing the learner of the objective
presenting stimulus material
providing feedback about performance
correctness
h. providing learning guidance
i. stimulate recall of prerequisite learning
Using g the table below matches the schema theory and the events of instructions as postulated by
Gagne. An example is given schema activation is gaining attention
Schema theory
1 Schema activation
1.Schema ctivation
1 Schema activation
2 Schema construction
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Gagnes events
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