It is a kind of student knowledge, skill or effect that teachers aim for their students to attain.
What is curricular aim?
100
These are the most popular, the most flexible, and the most widely used of the traditional test questions.
What are Multiple-Choice questions?
100
This is an overall guide for how you will assess students’ achievement of the learning objectives relevant to an instructional unit, a quarter, a trimester, or a semester.
What is an assessment plan?
100
A systematic collection of one's work.
What is portfolio?
100
These assessment tasks ask for students to think critically and apply their knowledge by writing one or two paragraph written response.
What are essay questions?
200
They are the most widely used indicators of educational effectiveness.
What are student test results?
200
They are most effective when they represent common errors or misunderstandings.
What are foils or distractors?
200
This gives students foreknowledge of what they are to learn and what will be tested.
What is a study guide?
200
This is a guide for a single test.
What is a test map?
200
This term refers to a scoring guide used to evaluate the quality of students’ constructed responses
What is a rubric?
300
They refer to the knowledge and skills that educators want their students to learn.
What are content standards?
300
These assessments occur spontaneously during the course of the lesson.
What are on-the-fly assessments?
300
This is the way that a teacher lays out their tests.
What is a test lay out?
300
Daily Double! These types of questions are similar to essay questions, but differ by asking students to show their work, in addition to writing about it.
What are performance tasks?
300
These types of questions or prompts have responses that can range from a few words or numbers, to a few sentences.
What are Short Answer Questions?
400
It is another way of describing an interpretation of students’ test results.
What is an assessment inference?
400
These types of test questions test knowledge of concepts or facts, or they may test recognition of the correct applications of principles, algorithms, or rules.
What are true-false questions?
400
This is work that has relevance in the world beyond school
What is authentic work?
400
This is a short story, a science investigation, a research report, an artistic performance, or some other prepared accomplishment.
What is exit performance?
400
Benchmarks against which requests are measured. They may include mandatory items only or a combination of mandatory and point-rated items.
What is an evaluation criterion?
500
They focus on a student’s knowledge and/or intellectual skills.
What are achievement tests?
500
They include identifying the gap, feedback, student involvement and learning progressions.
What are the elements of formative assessment?
500
This is a performance produced over time with opportunities
What is prepared accomplishments?
500
This is any numerical or descriptive summary applied to a performance
What is a score?
500
A way for students to reflect on and then improve their work.