Principles
Learning outcomes must match with the overarching program/institutional outcomes.
What is outcomes alignment
A method of finding out if a learner meets the level outcomes usually with grades assigned, like standardized tests.
What is assessment of learning
The sequence of the stages of measuring the leaning process.
What is the assessment cycle
The prompt that establishes the question with few options following.
What is the stem
The targeted learners of a certain assessment.
What is a reference group
A method that measures learning outcomes and feeds into subsequent remediation, like diagnostic tests.
What is assessment for learning
The learning outcomes determine the teaching materials, strategies, and assessment tools.
What is outcomes integration
The wrong answer choices provided to confuse test takers.
What is a distractor
The assessment quality of measuring the addressed learning outcomes through the test items.
What is assessment validity
A method of measuring learning outcomes and offering fresh learning opportunities simultaneously, like project-based tests.
What is assessment as learning
The assessment stage of gathering learning evidence and data that determines subsequent remediation and reinforcement.
What is the check stage
An assessment that the rater's dispositions or preferences cannot interfere in its evaluation, so that it becomes a matter of "either/or" not "more-or-less", like MCQs.
What is objective assessment