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| Used to diagnose students' strengths/weaknesses, monitor students' progress, assign grades, and determine instructional effectiveness. |
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| Used to determine students' status in knowledge, skills, or attitudes that aids in instructional changes to help students acquire content material. |
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| Ongoing assessment of student learning before summative. Used for information to change instruction, remediation, etc. and doesn't have to be graded. |
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| Used to assess student learning at the end of a defined instructional period and is graded; no remediation at this time. |
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| Universal assessment of students that is used to identify weakness and establish a baseline profile. (for ALL) |
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| Assessment of students' skills and knowledge to provide a baseline before progress monitoring; used for students who need more help. (for SOME) |
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| "Checkpoints" that are used to assess student academic performance to quantify rate of improvement or responsiveness. |
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| Assessment qualities that came be offensive (cultural background) or have unfair penalization (SES background) |
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| Trustworthy; produces stable and consistent results. |
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| Degree of similarity between students' scores on two tests that range from -1.0 to +1.0; the closer to +1.0, the stronger the relationship; the closer to 0, the weaker the relationship. +0.8 is very reliable. |
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| Accuracy; measures what is supposed to be measured. |
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| Assesses what the students already know before instruction, helps guide instruction. |
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| performance assessment (alternative) |
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| AKA "authentic assessment" requires students to perform a task rather than select an answer from a ready-made list; application of learned material instead of remember. |
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| questions that have answers to chose from |
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| Two choices to choose from that refers to main statement (cluster) |
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| multiple selected choices (A, B, C, or D) |
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| Selected matching choices. |
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| asks students to supply a word, phrase, or a few sentences. |
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| asks students to synthesize, evaluate, and compose a writing sample. |
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| used to level the playing field; support system. Changes HOW students learn; can be a change in environment, curriculum formt, or equipment. |
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| Only used if accommodations are not enough. Changes WHAT students learn. |
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Produce new or original work
6th level of pyramid |
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| Blooms' Taxonomy: evaluate |
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justify a stand or decision
5th level of pyramid |
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| Blooms' Taxonomy: analyze |
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draw connections among ideas
4th level of pyramid |
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use information in new situations
3rd level of pyramid |
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| Blooms' Taxonomy: understand |
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explain ideas or concepts
2nd level of pyramid |
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| Blooms' Taxonomy: remember |
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recalls facts and basic concepts
1st level of pyramid |
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| number of questions answered correctly |
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| percent correct out of 100% |
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| 1-9 scale; 4-6 being average and 9 being above average |
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| grade level performance equivalent |
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| academic growth over time; uses previous scores |
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| national percentile rank (NPR) |
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| how score is against other students nationally. |
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| local percentile rank (LPR) |
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| how score is against other students locally. |
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| normal curve equivalent (NCE) |
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| bell curve model (0-100), shows where scores are against others who too the test; 50 being average and higher being above. |
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| Criterion-Reference Test (CRT) |
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| assess individual students' performance. (SUBJECTIVE) |
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