Which appraisal uses materials and procedures directly from the curriculum taught to gauge student progress?

• A. Curriculum-Based Assessment
• B. Anecdotal Record
• C. Cloze
• D. Authentic Assessment

Answer: (A)

Measuring progress using what students are actually learning in class. Curriculum-Based Assessment does this by using the curriculum’s own materials, units, tasks, and scoring criteria to monitor growth, so the data directly reflect how well students are mastering the current instruction. Anecdotal records are observational notes about performance that aren’t tied to the exact curriculum tasks or criteria, so they don’t provide a consistent measure of progress within the taught content. A Cloze task is a specific type of item, not inherently linked to the curriculum’s ongoing objectives. Authentic assessment examines real-world performance, which can align with instruction but isn’t guaranteed to use the classroom curriculum materials for progress data.