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- Designed by teachers for classroom instruction
- Several Sources of information
- Strong link to curriculum and instruction
- Valid for guiding instruction
- Profile reliability - strengths and weaknesses
- Sensitive to changed in performance
- Judgmental, quick turnaround, flexible
- Performance-based "real" task
- Continuously, as needed
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- Designed by experts for policy makers
- Stand alone, single indicator
- Independent of curriculum and instruction
- Predictive validity to other tests
- Total test reliability - one score
- Stable over time and situations
- Objective, cost and time efficient, standardized
- Multiple-choice, "school" task
- Once or sometimes twice per year
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| It is easy to build a test that fails students; it is much more difficult to find ways to discover what students know and can do. Developing this sensitivity requires the teacher to act as a researcher, creating situations that support success and provide a starting point for instruction. |
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| Assessment as Development |
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| Students are not identical peas in a pod, and assessment must adapt to individual differences. |
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| Monitoring students’ growth and learning. |
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| There is a wide spectrum of assessment strategies: objective or subjective, formal or informal, prepackaged or judgment-based. In your role as a classroom teacher, you confront the practical question of how to achieve a balance that makes effective use of this full range of strategies. |
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| It was an experiment, where the teacher expected to stretch her students, but was genuinely surprised by their accomplishments. In planning and carrying out the assessment, she played the role of a researcher: She developed a design, tried some innovative methods, collected data, and reflected on the results. |
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| A graduated scoring guide with criteria for each score level, something like a letter grade but without the letters, and with instructions about the meaning of each level on the scale. |
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| Range from multiple- choice to short-answer tests. Teachers adapt these assessment techniques to meet classroom needs is the key. |
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| Criterion-referenced tests |
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| Include basal tests and tests designed by school districts for local achievement monitoring. |
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| Tests that measure individual student standing relative to others—“grading on the curve”. |
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| A teacher records on paper an individual student’s oral reading behavior as the student reads a short passage, typically between 100 and 200 words |
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| Informal reading inventory |
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The Informal Reading Inventory is an on-going assessment, and should be completed several times throughout the child's schooling. It measures:
- Grade level reading
- Fluency
- Comprehension
- Vocabulary
- Oral reading accuracy
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