Norm & Criterion
Benefits & Pitfalls of Large Scale Tests
Achievement vs Aptitude
Interpreting & Grading Tests
No Child Left Behind & Accommodations
100
Compares a student's score to a group of other students who have taken the test.
What is norm-referenced scoring?
100
Benefit or Pitfall: large scale standardized testing creates competition between schools, districts, and states, shifting the focus away from student success.
What is a pitfall?
100
Achievement and aptitude tests are focused on challenging this domain
What is the cognitive domain?
100
The score obtained from a large scale test standardized test does not represent a "true score" due to...
What is a degree of error?
100
No Child Left behind was introduced on the third day of this President's term, increasing large scale standardized tests from 6 to 17.
Who is George W. Bush?
200
Scores are compared to predefined standards, challenging the level of mastery of specific objectives.
What is criterion-referenced scoring?
200
Benefit or pitfall: standardized testing allows students scores to be tracked over the years.
What is a benefit?
200
This test estimates the student's capacity/potential to learn. Example) What comes next? 1, 3, 7, 15, 31, ____
What is an aptitude test?
200
Teachers are advised to not give parents or students the obtained score, but rather the ________________.
What is the confidence interval?
200
The term _____________ may be used to describe an alteration of environment, curriculum format, or equipment that allows an individual with a disability to gain access to content and/or complete assigned tasks.
What is accommodation?
300
List 3 implications of norm-referenced scoring.
What is 1. Spreads students out under a curve 2. Ensures that some students do well and others don’t – cant have everyone above average 3. Doesn’t really assess what the child knows – informs how teachers teach
300
Name 3 ways that a large scale standardized test may cause test anxiety, leading to unreliable results.
What are: 1) fear of continued low scores 2) testing in a new environment 3) unfamiliar testing language
300
This test measures how student's have learned in academic content areas. Example: Explain the importance of the Bill of Rights.
What is an achievement test?
300
The _____________ of a score is the percentage of scores in its frequency distribution that are equal to or lower than it.
What is the percentile rank?
300
By 2013-2014, schools were supposed to have all of their students to ___________ level under NCLB.
What is proficiency?
400
Chapter tests, final exams, and tryouts are all examples of __________, while the SAT, PRAXIS, and IQ tests are all examples of ______________.
What is criterion-referenced scoring, and norm-referenced scoring?
400
In a school, district, or state, large scale standardized testing provides a(n) ____________ _____________across groups.
What is an accurate comparison?
400
Schools may use this test to determine whether or not a student needs to be placed in a special education program or gifted and talented.
What is an aptitude test?
400
"Assessment information should be efficiently recorded by both teacher and student through the use of a collection of artifacts that show understanding. The teacher and student can work together to record this information. Students are involved in the creation of rubrics to guide their learning and record their performance," addresses which guideline(s) for grading decisions?
What are: 1) Communicate and involve students in developing standards of performance for graded assessments. 2) Ensure quality of assessment by having sufficient information, and by using different types of assessments?
400
List examples of common testing accommodations for students with disabilities or limited English proficiency.
What are: 1) flexibility in timing/scheduling of test (extended time, multiple sessions, breaks, etc) 2) Flexibility in the setting for the test (separate room, small-group administration, adaptive furniture/lighting) 3) Changes in the presentation of the test (print size, braille, # of questions per page, SL interpreter, repetition, revised directions, etc) 4) Changes in the method of response (marking answers in booklet instead of answer sheet, give answers orally or in native language, etc)
500
Most states chose __________ to set levels of performance?
What is criterion-referenced scoring?
500
Because standardized testing focuses on achieving a particular score, many teachers are accused of....
What is teaching to the test?
500
Name 5 different types of achievement tests
What are ACT, SAT, final exams, PRAXIS, PASS, etc?
500
Tests that equate a score to a particular grade level can help determine whether the child is performing below, at, or above grade level.
What are grade equivalent tests?
500
Under No Child Left Behind, states were required to bring students to “proficient level” by the 2013-2014 school year, causing a heavy focus on large scale standardized tests. Cons of this include...
What are: 1. Teaching to the test 2. Differing standards across states 3. Focus on increasing scores, rather than increasing learning
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