Centered around the 5 pillars of reading
What is Reading Eggs?
The lowest level of evidence recognized by ESSA.
What is under review or under evaluation?
A collection of questions pulled together using a specific blueprint.
What is an item bank?
ESSA
What is Every Student Succeeds Act?
Examples of this type of assessment include thumbs up/thumbs down, group sessions, and exit tickets.
What is formative assessment?
Offers ThinkIts and is developed by our UK partners
What is EducationCity?
This level of ESSA evidence requires a structured experiment, control and random groups, and a positive effect size.
What is strong evidence?
Provides a comparison of students' performance to that of the average performance of others of the same grade or age
What is a norm-referenced test?
ELF
What is Edmentum Learning Framework?
An assessment used to evaluate learning at the end of an educational period.
What is summative assessment?
Research is Currently "under review" within ESSA research level of evidence descriptions
What is Courseware?
This level of ESSA evidence requires correlational research and typically uses a scatterplot as a visual.
What is promising evidence?
When an assessment measures what it is supposed to measure.
What is validity?
RTI
What is Response to Intervention?
Benchmark assessments, mid-term exams, progress checks are all examples of _______
What is interim assessments?
Ties norm referenced assessment to instruction
What is Exact Path?
This type of research includes everything but random assignment and may result in Moderate levels of evidence.
What is quasi-experimental research?
If a test produces stable and consistent results, it is…..
What is reliable?
PLC
Professional Learning Community
The strategic use of formative, interim, and summative assessments to measure student performance.
What is balanced assessment?
Contains criterion-referenced assessments
What is Study Island OR Courseware?
For this level of evidence, a .20 effect size is needed.
What is strong evidence?
The ability for an interim assessment to show the likely performance on a summative assessment
What is predictive validity?
ELL
What is English Language Learner?
A type of test whose items are chosen from the item bank in real time.
What is a computer adaptive test?