The World of Assessment

1. The World of Assessment Consider the options!

2. Scores based on developmental levels of academic achievement Age-Equivalent scores

3. Includes standardized or norm-referenced tests such as intelligence tests Formal Assessment

4. The time when children are actually understanding and succeeding at the learning task Academic Learning Time

5. The fairness of the test Test Bias

6. An alternative assessment method based on a students’ performance on a skill based on a real-life situation. Performance-based assessments

7. The careful watching and recording of events or behavior for later reflection and analysis Observations

8. Includes such items as work samples, portfolios, and projects, or oral questioning as well as other traditional and nontraditional ways of measuring students’ understanding and progress. Informal Assessment

9. Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills Use absolute standards (criteria) to answer specific questions about student achievement or mastery (PPR, TAKS). Passing requires answering a pre-determined percentage of items correctly. Criterion-referenced tests

10. A measurement process that is on-going, developmentally appropriate, and dynamic. Assessment

11. The truthfulness of the assessment information; does the score report really measure what it purports to measure? Validity

12. Formal assessment measure in which an individual’s performance is compared with others in the test- norming sample ACT ~ ACT Standardized test

13. An authentic assessment tool used to assess student progress; consists of a collection of the student’s work Portfolio

14. Typically refers to all means used in schools to formally measure student performance or behavior and make judgments based on the results of the programs and procedures implemented Evaluation

15. Demonstrating a specific skill by constructing a product or solving a problem that could be generated by a real-life situation Authentic

16. An umbrella term that describes an area of the curriculum, such as basic math skills Domain

17. A test-taker’s performance is reported in relationship to other test takers in the same age or grade sample. Results are reported in standards scores, percentile ranks, or t and z scores. Norm-referenced tests

18. Data collected by teacher through careful watching and charting of specific student behaviors Observation data

19. Assessment data that show a student’s progress or lack of progress toward curricular objectives during the process of instruction. Formative assessment

20. 2.0 or 6.0 or 8.0 or 10.0 Based on developmental norms, reporting such scores assumes that all children or all children in certain grades have received uniform instruction. Grade-equivalent scores

21. A process where students reflect on their achievement and progress; student interviews and portfolios are often used as student self-assessments. Self-assessment

22. % Standardized scores that compare an individual with other test takers and report scores as well as or better than a certain percentage of the norm sample. % Percentile rank

23. Test on Friday! Informal measures of student progress based on the objectives of the curriculum and classroom instruction. Teacher-made test

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