Assessment Techniques & Professional Development Flashcards
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Which assessment method is BEST suited for evaluating a student's ability to perform a front desk check-in procedure?
Answer: Performance-based observation checklist
Performance-based observation checklists allow instructors to assess procedural skills directly as students demonstrate them in real or simulated scenarios.
A hospitality educator wants to measure higher-order thinking. Which level of Bloom's Taxonomy is the TARGET?
Answer: Evaluating
Evaluating is a higher-order level of Bloom's Taxonomy that requires students to make judgments based on criteria and standards.
What is the PRIMARY purpose of a formative assessment in a hospitality course?
Answer: Monitor learning progress and provide feedback during instruction
Formative assessments are ongoing checks used to guide instruction and give students timely feedback before a summative evaluation.
An instructor uses a rubric with clearly defined criteria for grading a banquet service role-play. This BEST exemplifies which assessment principle?
Answer: Reliability through standardization
Using a rubric with defined criteria promotes reliability by ensuring consistent scoring across different raters and performances.
Which professional development activity is MOST aligned with the CHE credential's emphasis on instructional improvement?
Answer: Completing a peer observation and debrief cycle
Peer observation with structured debrief directly targets instructional practice, a core focus of the CHE professional development framework.
A CHE candidate reviews student quiz data and notices a single question that most students answered incorrectly. The MOST appropriate next step is to:
Answer: Re-teach the content and adjust future instruction
Item analysis revealing widespread errors signals a gap in instruction; re-teaching and curriculum adjustment are the professional response.
Which term describes aligning learning objectives, instructional activities, and assessments so they all measure the same outcomes?
Answer: Constructive alignment
Constructive alignment, a concept developed by John Biggs, ensures that objectives, teaching, and assessment are coherently linked.