Terms
Formats
Tools
Potpourri
Focus
100
When scores on a test are used to sort or rank students.
What is norm referencing?
100

An assessment that provides details about levels of performance along a variety of criteria, from inadequate to exemplary, organized as a matrix

What is a rubric?

100
This assessment tool collects samples of student work that demonstrate learning.
What is a portfolio?
100
This kind of testing uses scores to make important decisions about students' futures.
What is high stakes testing?
100

Motivation; interests; identity; engagement

What are the affective dimensions of being literate?

200

Assessment based on a pre-defined level of performance

What is criterion referencing?

200
This kind of assessment shows the end result of learning over time.
What is a summative assessment?
200
This assessment tool allows students to share what they have learned with an audience.
What is a presentation?
200

This theoretical construct has been used extensively to determine the content of many standardized tests.

What is IQ?

200

Accuracy + rate + intonation

What is fluency?

300

A measure of how spread out a group of scores are (a large value represents a big spread in scores).

What is the standard deviation?

300
This kind of assessment shows learning as it happens.
What is formative assessment?
300
This assessment tool allows students to work individually or in groups to solve a real-world problem.
What is a project?
300
This geometric figure is used to describe the outcome of norm-referenced tests.
What is the bell curve?
300

Letter recognition; concepts about print; sound-symbol correspondences; print awareness

What are emergent literacy skills?

400
This tells whether or not test results can be replicated.
What is reliability?
400

A kind of interactive assessment that adapts as the conditions change in a learner’s performance, to determine the learner’s skill and potential

What is dynamic assessment?

400

A word-for-word tracking of a learner’s oral reading, as compared to the source text, useful as an assessment of reading miscues and self-correcting behaviors

What is a running record?

400

This popular and time-honored measure of a student's learning is often unrelated to effective assessment of that learning.

What is a grade?

400

Decoding; encoding

What is phonics?

500
This tells whether or not the test measures what it is meant to measure.
What is validity?
500

A careful assessment of a learner’s understanding through use of focused questioning

What is probes?

500
This kind of assessment demonstrates students' ability to perform real-world tasks as if they were actually at work outside the classroom.
What is authentic assessment?
500

The results of this test are used to determine adequate yearly progress of student learning.

What is NAEP?

500

Facets include letter formation; composing strategies (process); discourse knowledge; organization; sentence construction; conventions (punctuation; grammar; spelling)

What is writing?

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