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- To see how students are doing
- To see whether you have to reteach the material
-To see if they have a full understanding
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| What is educational assessment? |
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| The systematic process of gathering educationally relevant information to make instructional decisions. The process may be extended to make sure that the decisions are legal and appropriately provide special services. |
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| What are some of the variables that can play into how to assess students? |
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| Learning style, language competency, family appreciation for education, intelligence/cognitive ability |
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Behavior is things that can be seen, documented, produced (ie- spelling performence)
Competency is the bigger picture (ie- inferences) |
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| Expected standards of behavior or performance |
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| Collection of data; can be quantitative or qualitative (observations and evaluations) |
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| What are some of the different test characteristics/types? |
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group vs. individual
silent vs. oral
speed vs. power
max performance vs. typical performance
objective (multiple choice) vs. subjective (open-ended)
recognition vs. free response
survey/screening (collective) vs. diagnostic (strengths/weaknesses)
language vs. non-language (ESL students) |
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RTI: Response to Intervention
- time consuming and done by the teacher
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| What is MTSS and what does it stand for? |
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MTSS: multi-tiered system of support
- top to bottom of pyramid
Universal (bottom- large group)
Targeted (middle- smaller group)
Intensive (top- one on one) |
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| compares the data intra/interdependently |
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What are standardized tests and some characteristics?
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A systematic procedure for measuring a sample of an individual's behavior; this sample can be indicative of the individual's competence.
Systematic in it's content, administration, and scoring (to compare) |
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| What are normative tests and characteristics of such? |
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Achievement tests (such as NJASK, Terra Novas, SATs) that are standardized and normed
Normed: interpretation of students' raw scores are compared to an "outside" reference group that is representative of the testesd students |
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| What are summative assessments and when are they administered? |
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Assessments administered to determine whether learning did occurr and to what degree
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| What are classroom assessments? |
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| single assessments that reflects if curricula learning occured with all or particular students; can give indication as to whether instruction is working in general; can give info for programmatic decisions |
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| What are some examples of grading by the single assessment? |
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| spelling tests, science projects, math tests |
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| What are some examples of grading by the term? |
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