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Terms
- Criterion-Referenced Assessment
- Tests designed to determine whether students have mastered specific content
and to allow comparisons with other students taking the same assessment. They are available
locally and nationally.
- Curriculum-Based Measurement
- A type of informal assessment in which the procedures directly assess student performance
in learning-targetet content in order to make decisions about how better to address a student's instructional needs.
- Formative Assessment
- Assessments designed to evaluate students frequently so that adjustments can be made
in instruction to help them reach achievement goals.
- Norm-Referenced Assessment
- Tests designed to discriminate among groups of students and allos comparisons
across years, grade levels, schools, and other variables. They are nationally, commercially available.
- Portfolio Assessment
- A systematic collection of student work analyzed to show progress over time towards
instructional objectives. They may include responses to readings, samples of writing, drawings, or other work.
- Reliability
- A measure of whether a student's score on a test would remain the same if taken again the following
day, assuming no new learning had taken place; that is, whether the performance generalizes over time.
- Summative Assessment
- Generally carried out at the end of a course or project. Typically used to assign students a course grade.
- Validity
- An indicator of whether an assessment measures the construct it purports to measure.