Legal Guidelines
Evaluation Criteria
Technical Quality
Test Scores & Results
Non-Biased Assessment
100
Protection from Bias in regards to Language & Disability
What is Nondiscriminatory
100
A screwdriver doesn't fix a nail
What is Tools must fit the purpose of the assessment
100
Placed by Category or Sequence.
What is Nominal & Ordinal Scale?
100
Most common to all norm-referenced measures.
What is Raw Score?
100
English to Spanish and back again.
What is Translation into a student's home language (when possible)?
200
Things to think about regarding the assessment of individuals.
What is Legal Provisions & Ethical Principles
200
Not Rated R for a Preschooler
What is Appropriate for the Student?
200
A Quiz is an example of one; Comparing Height & Weight is the other.
What is Interval & Ratio?
200
Like the ACT; Comparing to how others have done.
What is Percentile Rank?
200
Unlike Peggy Hill, all these are multi-linguial.
What is Interpreter (Use of)?
300
No important area of performance is neglected.
What is Comprehensive
300
Homer Simpson running a Nuclear Power Plant
What is Appropriate for the Tester?
300
Most Common, Middle, Average, Highest to Lowest, Relation to Most Common & Relation between 2 sets.
What is Measures of Central Tendency?
300
Transforming Raw Scores to a new scale with a set mean and standard deviation.
What is Standard Scores?
300
Minimizing or Considering a student's heritage.
What is Culture-Fair & Culture-Specific Measures?
400
Involves assessment given by "not your Average Joe" that use reliable & valid measurement tools
What is Trained Professional giving Technically Adequate assessments.
400
Lou Gehrig and a Tape Measure
What is Reliable & Valid (Technically Adequate)?
400
Test given to a large group of similar students
What is Norm-Referenced test?
400
Normalized Standard scores divided into 99 equal units with a mean of 50 and SD of 21.06
What is Normal Curve Equivalent (NCE)?
400
Culture influences responses
What is Cultural Bias?
500
Special Education's version of Miranda
What is the Protection of Parents/Students Rights.
500
Making the most of the information and time
What is Efficient (for Data Collection)?
500
A measure to determine mastery by a student.
What is Criterion-Referenced Tests?
500
Less precise than those from standard scores
What are Stanines?
500
Teach-Test-Reteach principle.
What is Dynamic Assessment?
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