The process of gathering information to use to determine need of support
What is formative assessment
100
The key considerations for this indicator are: evidence is used for individualizing instruction or adapting curriculum.
What is the indicator for improving children's learning?
100
Planning and adapting curriculum and teaching practices.
What is on-going assessment?
100
This is the most important assessment skill a teacher can develop.
What is observation?
100
The tool is likely to get the same or similar results when used by different people or on different days.
What is reliability?
200
The process for gathering information through observation and interacting with children during play.
What is play-based assessment
200
When a possible problem is indicated, further information gathering is needed to determine child's level of knowledge.
How is screening linked to follow-up?
200
Results of an evaluation informs educators about the child's strengths and needs so spcialized instruction can occur.
What is developing and individualized education plan?
200
Systematically gathering evidence to show progress on child outcomes and curriculum goals.
What is collecting work products?
200
Test scores look like a bell shape. Most people score in the middle with few at the lower and higher ends.
What is a normal curve.
300
The process of dertermining assessment results.
What is evaluation
300
Assessments results are confidential and should never be used to keep children from services. Decisions are never made on the results of a single assessment
What are ethical principles and practices?
300
Determining if the program is meeting its goals and child outcomes. Determining how childen throughout the program are progressing.
What is program quality?
300
Teachers can make a judgement about a child's performance; either comparing the child to his/her peers or to an outcome or curriculum goal.
What is a rubric or rating scale?
300
The test tool measures what it is intended to measure.
What is validity?
400
The process of gathering information to make everyday classroom decisions or adjustments to teaching.
What is informal assessment?
400
Assessments should be used with children who are similar to the group used for validation of the assessment
What are appropriate assessments for the ages and characteristics of the children being assessed?
400
Teachers use various kinds of assessments depending on what the purpose of the test is.
What is informal and formal tesing?
400
Teacher's description of a child in a specific situation that is focused on a specific developmental area or skill level.
What is a narrative record?
400
You have to use specific methods and materials for testing and scoring.
What is standardized testing?
500
The process of information gathering at the end of an educational experience to evaluate what children have learned.
What is summative assessment?
500
Authentic assessment based on oberservations of children within context, interviews, and collections of children's work.
What is information gathering in realistic settings and situations that reflect children's actual performance.
500
High-stakes testing holds programs responsible for meeting a required level of performance.
What is accountability?
500
These are the most effective methods for collecting evidence to improve teaching and learning.
What are observation, eliciting reponses, collecting work products, and information from family members?
500
Tests compare a child's score to a predetermined level of skill mastery of a specific body of knowledge.