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Standard Assessment Checklist

This document provides a checklist for assessing the alignment and quality of assessments. It includes sections on alignment to standards, quality of multiple-choice, short-answer and extended response items, assessment format and components, use of stretch questions, and inclusion of rubrics. Each section lists criteria and asks the reviewer to indicate whether the assessment meets the criteria fully, somewhat, or not at all. The goal is to evaluate whether the assessment accurately measures student learning based on the relevant standards.

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Standard Assessment Checklist

This document provides a checklist for assessing the alignment and quality of assessments. It includes sections on alignment to standards, quality of multiple-choice, short-answer and extended response items, assessment format and components, use of stretch questions, and inclusion of rubrics. Each section lists criteria and asks the reviewer to indicate whether the assessment meets the criteria fully, somewhat, or not at all. The goal is to evaluate whether the assessment accurately measures student learning based on the relevant standards.

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Assessment Checklist

Alignment to Standards Yes Somewhat No


1. All items on the assessment align to the standard(s) addressed in the SLO.
2. All items on the assessment align to the intent of the standard(s).
3. All items on the assessment cover essential skills and knowledge.

Item Quality: Multiple-Choice Questions Yes Somewhat No


1. All items are clear, concise, and unambiguous.
2. All items contain a stem that is in the form of a direct question.
3. All items state the whole question in the item stem.
4. The stimulus is essential to the question with which it is associated.
5. All items avoid using negative statements such as “not” or “never.”
6. All item answers avoid repeating words or phrases.
7. All item distractors are based on common student errors or misconceptions.
8. All item answers are roughly the same length.

9. All item answers avoid choices of “all of the above” or “none of the above.”

Item Quality: Short-Answer and Extended Response Yes Somewhat No


1. Items are clear, concise, and unambiguous.
2. Items contain a stem that is in the form of a direct question.
3. Items state the whole question in the item stem.
4. The stimulus is essential to the question with which it is associated.
5. Items avoid providing clues, and answers are not obvious without mastering
material tested.
6. Items do not lend themselves to subjectivity.
Assessment Format and Components Yes Somewhat No
1. All items use a full-length format.
2. All parts of a test question are on one page.
3. An adequate number of questions are on one page and are not overcrowded.
4. Eighty-percent of the items are multiple-choice, 15% are short-answer, and 5%
are extended response, with 42–46 items.
5. Charts, tables, and graphs are used, when appropriate.
6. Directions are clear and explicit.
7. Directions indicate how the answer should be expressed.
Stretch Yes Somewhat No
1. All items match the full range of cognitive thinking as outlined in Bloom’s
Taxonomy or Webb’s Depth of Knowledge.
2. Items cover prerequisite knowledge and skills from prior years and appropriate,
grade-level/content-relevant items that will challenge the highest performing
students.
Rubric, Scoring Guides, and Keys Yes Somewhat No
1. Assessment includes rubrics, scoring guides, and/or keys.
2. Rubrics, scoring guides, and keys are clear and explicit.

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