Assessment Vocabulary
Traditional Assessment
Alternative Assessment
Standardized Tests
Effective Assessment
100
When scores on a test are used to sort or rank students.
What is norm referencing?
100
This test predicts how students will perform in the future.
What is an aptitude test?
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
This popular and time-honored measure of a student's learning is often unrelated to effective assessment of that learning.
What is a grade?
200
When scores on a test show what students have learned about what they were taught.
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
This is the primary purpose of assessment.
What is to improve student learning?
300
When students are given a range of answers to choose from on a test.
What is a multiple choice question?
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
This kind of assessment goes well with multidimensional learning tasks.
What is multidimensional assessment?
400
This tells whether or not test results can be replicated.
What is reliability?
400
The results of this test are used to determine adequate yearly progress of student learning.
What is the NAEP?
400
This kind of learning helps teachers know when students are able to use their knowledge in the real world.
What is applied learning?
400
This is one measure of student achievement that standardized tests cannot close.
What is the achievement gap?
400
This kind of inquiry involves investigating a topic according to the scholarly conventions of a particular discipline.
What is disciplined inquiry?
500
This tells whether or not the test measures what it is meant to measure.
What is validity?
500
This legislation has mandated the use of traditional assessments for high-stakes purposes.
What is NCLB?
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
This kind of decision making is best undertaken without reference to standardized tests.
What is instructional decision making?
500
This kind of teamwork helps teachers design assessment tools and carry out assessment practices in a responsible manner.
What is professional collaboration?
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