Vocabulary
What do I mean?
Vocabulary
What's in a name?
100
This refers to the degree of confidence that an assessment actually measures what it is supposed to measure.
What is Validity?
100
Instead of a traditional test, my students will keep all of their projects and assignments in one place to be taken up as a test grade.
What is a portfolio?
100
These are designed to measure student performance against a fixed set of predetermined criteria or learning standards.
What is a criterion referenced test?
100
The NAEP tests, ACTs, SBATs are these types of tests.
What are criterion based tests?
200
This test reports whether test takers performed better or worse than a hypothetical average student. This is determined by comparing scores against the performance results of a selected group of students, typically of the same age or grade level, who have already taken the test.
What is Norm-Referenced?
200
This is a type of graphic organizer that helps students choose how to learn a topic.
What is a choice board?
200
This is an assessment that learners do together with their teachers. It is an alternative to the traditional test. It contains samples of the learner's work and shows growth over time.
What is a portfolio?
200
One student is constantly misbehaving in class. In an effort to find the student's triggers, I will keep a log of his behaviors for three weeks.
What is anecdotal records?
300
This is a graphic organizer that allows students to choose how they will learn a concept.
What is a Choice Board?
300
This type of scoring gives students a single, overall score.
What is holistic scoring?
300
Free Pass
Free Pass
300
Students have just finished reading Horton Hears a Who. We will have an in class discussion and an activity based on elements of literature. Students will then have a test over the elements of literature.
What is validity?
400
This is an approach to scoring essays using a simple grading structure that bases a grade on a paper's overall quality.
What is holistic grading?
400
The SATs, the GRE, IQ tests are these types of tests.
What are norm referenced tests?
400
This is a method of evaluating written text that assigns individual scores to separate aspects of writing quality, such as organization, ideas, sentence structure, word choice, and mechanics.
What is analytic scoring?
400
This rubric is used to specifically score assessments.
What is analytic scoring?
500
This is the degree to which an assessment tool produces stable and consistent results.
What is reliability?
500
This is a definition of Bloom's Taxonomy.
What is a way of organizing levels of expertise?
500
This is like a short story that educators use to record a significant incident that they have observed.
What is an anecdotal record?
500
The test-retest method is an example of...
What is reliability?