Educational History
The process of gathering information about children from several sources of evidence and organizing the results.
What is assessment?
The results of this type of test are reported as a percentile rank relative to a norm group
What are norm-references test?
This is a written description of a child's actions/behaviors.
What is an anecdotal record?
(Will also accept Observation Note)
This is normally done by the classroom teacher in an early childhood setting and it requires focus on a child's behaviors and allows the teacher to get to know them as a unique individual.
What is observation?
Upon completion of an assessment, results should be shared with this group.
Who are the parents/guardians?
In this century, educators began measures to assess and evaluate young children's development and learning.
What is the 20th century.
This assessment occurs at the beginning of the year. (hint...there will be a subsequent one later)
What is a pre-assessment?
It involves studying three characteristics of each test question: difficulty level, discrimination, and grade progression of difficulty.
What is item analysis?
A process of change in an individual over time.
What is development?
In Italy, an environment where learning is a child-initiated process where their interests develop into processes that evolve into learning.
What is the Reggio Emilia theory?
This type of informal evaluation is used to gauge student’s current understanding of an objective and inform future teaching.
What is a formative assessment?
An instrument developed to measure authentic and performance assessments. The descriptions are given for qualitative characteristics on a scale.
What is a rubric?
This Act requires schools to serve the educational needs of eligible students with disabilities.
What is IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)?
This is when a child is placed with children that are developing normally, rather than in a segregated classroom for children with special needs.
What is a least restrictive environment (LRE)
This type of test measures abilities, achievements, aptitudes, interests, attitudes, values and personality characteristics.
What are standardized tests?
This type of observational evaluation is completed while a child plays.
What is play-based assessment?
This addresses students with learning and behavior problems. (intervention program)
What is Response to Intervention?
During these months is the best time to screen infants and toddlers for development.
What are the first early months of life?
This is the Early Childhood state-wide assessment system for Nebraska.
What is TS GOLD
In the normal curve (bell curve shape), these sections are used to calculate how an individual scored compared with the scores of the norm group on a standardized test and describe how those test scores are dispersed around the mean score.
What are standard deviations?