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According to utilitarianism ____________ is an intrinsic good?

A prerequisite skill that is most likely to lessen the validity of scores obtained from many context-dependent (interpretive) exercises is the students’ ________.

Questions 77-79 pertain to the matching item below. The matching item shown below was designed to assess the indicated learning objective: Learning Objective: Classifies examples and non-examples based on the test purposes. Matching Item to Analyze: _________ Identify the learning difficulties of students so they might be remediated. _________ Not an objective test. Authentic or alternative assessments. _________ Determine student ability before beginning instruction. _________ Assess learning achievement at the end of instruction in order to assign grades. A. Placement B. Summative C. Formative D. Performance   Consider the objective/item pairing above. Then answer the two questions that follow.  

Liberationists understand sin as _____________. All sins even those committed privately by individuals, have ______________ consequences. (Hint: for both blanks it’s the same word).

A major advantage of developing criteria for judging performance prior to task administration is that this can ________.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that BEST completes the statement or answers the question. 

These instructions apply to questions 58–62. Instructions: The question shown below was prepared for use in a social studies test. The intended correct answer is in parentheses. Evaluate this item in terms of how well it complies with the textbooks guidelines for writing this type of test item. Then answer the questions below. Item to Analyze: The first prime minister of Canada was ________. (Sir John A. Macdonald)

If you answered no to the previous question, rewrite any problematic response options to correct the inadequacies, and explain why the revision was needed.

Which of the item-writing guidelines, if any, are violated by this item? (Write “none” if no guidelines are violated.)

According to the guidelines provided in the text, which of the following is the best example of a properly written supply-type item?