Types of Assessment
Terminology
Eligibility Criteria
Assessment for Instruction
Potpourri
100
Provides a comparison of students' performance to that of the average performance of others of the same grade or age
What is a norm-referenced test?
100
The number correct on an assessment
What is the raw score?
100
To be labeled this, a student meets criteria in 3 areas: intellectual functioning, adaptive behavior, and academic functioning.
What is cognitive disability?
100
Examples of this type of assessment include class work, practice exercises, and homework.
What is formative assessment?
100
How often should you use progress-monitoring probes for discrete skills such as letter and word recognition?
What is weekly?
200
This type of assessment compares a student's performance to an objective or standard.
What is a criterion referenced test?
200
The way the scores would fall if everyone in the population took the test.
What is normal distribution?
200
This disability category is characterized by difficulty with interactions and with language; individuals also MAY have challenges with the following: sensory or social skills; abnormalities in thinking and/or generalizing; sensory processing; may insist on following routines and/or may be persistently preoccupied with objects.
What is Autism?
200
Formative assessments must be aligned with these two components.
What are Objectives and Instruction?
200
Assessment accommodations should be based on these.
What are the needs of the student?
300
Evaluation of student learning at the end of a unit is typically referred to as this.
What is summative assessment?
300
This refers to variation from the mean.
What is standard deviation?
300
To be considered this, a student must show: insufficient progress, inadequate classroom achievement, and these must not be due to exclusionary factors (environmental, cultural, economic factors; lack of appropriate instruction; another disability; limited English proficiency).
What is specific learning disability?
300
When done well, this is a means teachers use to inform students of their performance and how to improve it.
What is effective feedback?
300
When an assessment measures what it purports to measure, it is called this.
What is validity?
400
These types of assessments are administered under controlled conditions, rank test takers, and do not reflect a single curriculum.
What are standardized tests?
400
Raw scores can be turned into standard scores or percentages, which are called scores of _________ ________, which allow a comparison of a student to other students.
What are relative standing?
400
Name 2 important things to consider when assessing a culturally or linguistically diverse student.
What are language proficiency, familiarity with examiner, language of instruction, level of acculturation....
400
If a student is struggling to acquire and/or master a skill, breaking it down into components/sub-skills can be useful for your planning and instruction. This breaking it down is known as
What is task analysis?
400
Name 2 essential elements of effective praise.
What are positive, specific, and consistent.
500
Measures of Academic Progress are formative or summative? Explain?
What is formative? Because the results can be used to change instruction; the results are not "high stakes;" the assessment is "during instruction" (not after = summative).
500
If a test produces stable and consistent results, it is
What is reliable?
500
Students in this disability category must have a chronic or acute health problem that results in limiting his/her strength, vitality or alertness.
What is OHI?
500
Using writing assessment, plan a lesson that is aligned among the objective, instruction, and assessment.
What is [show a good lesson plan, with components aligned]
500
Short, repeated measurement of academic performance, at regular intervals, to inform instruction of individual students in general and special education in grades K-8.
What progress monitoring?
M
e
n
u