Assessment Types
Occurs when teachers use evidence of student learning to make judgements on student achievement against goals and standards.
What is Assessment OF Learning?
Affords a 50/50 chance of the correct answer on an assessment.
What is True/False questions?
Provides consistent and stable results.
What is reliability?
Approach that connects prior concepts to new teaching points with opportunities for independent practice and links to new learning.
What is a Workshop Approach?
Generated to help focus attention toward specific area for growth and shoud be measurable.
What is goal-setting?
Compares previous results with a 2nd try to motivate students to improve their skills.
What is Ipsative Assessment?
Takes longer to grade yet allows students to produce short or long explanations of thinking.
What is Short Answer or Essay?
Unfair discrimination against any group.
What is bias?
What students should KNOW, UNDERSTAND, and be able to DO.
What is a learning objective?
Provides an explanation of noticings about WHAT assessment results reveal.
What is Description?
Good for assessing mastery and performance at the end of the instructional process.
What is Summative Assessment?
Uses rubric as scoring guide and allows for synthesis of information to be presented in authentic ways.
What is Performance Assessment?
Content is accurate and credible.
What is validity?
Levels of cognitive rigor defined inside of a learning context.
Makes assumptions about student learning and the WHY behind assessment results.
What is Interpretion or Analysis?
Provides a basline of performance from which student growth and/or learning gain can be gauged.
What is Pre-Assessment?
Most versatile across a variety of knowledge levels and clues should be avoided when generating this type of question.
What is Mutliple Choice?
Describes varying levels of proficiency.
What is a rubric?
What are learning targets?
New perspectives and insights gained from colleagues after data analysis and collaboration.
What is reflection?
Standards-based criterion-referenced assessment designed to measure students' progress toward mastery of the Alabama Course of Study Standards.
What is the ACAP (Alabama Comprehensive Assessment Program) Summative?
Typically includes problem/solution, cause/effect, and vocabulary terms/definitions.
What is Matching?
Format of test items are suitable for the standard being measured.
What is relevance?
Responding to learners in need of support, on-level,and those in need of enrichment.
What is Differentiation?
Establishes a set of common criteria for what mastery looks like.
What is norming?