Norm-Referenced Tests
Acronyms of Tests
Criterion-Referenced Tests
Assessment Terms
Assessments
100
The way students achievement is reported
What is individual skills?
100
DAR
What is Diagnostic Assessment of Reading?
100
To rank each students with respect to the achievement of others in broad areas of knowledge.
What is the purpose of criterion-referenced tests?
100
Describe the student's performance in relation to others in the same age group or grade level.
What is percentiles?
100
Stanford Achievement Test, the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, the Group Reading Assessment and Diagnostic Evaluation
What is examples of group survey tests?
200
Instructional objective
What is the way each skill is expressed for the test?
200
DIBELS
What is Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills?
200
Variety of textbooks, syllabi, and the judgements of curriculum experts
What is the content of what criterion-referenced tests measure or where the skills are drawn from?
200
Indicates how well a student reads in terms of grade level
What is grade equivalent?
200
Contains more easy items than most survey tests at the same level
What is Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test, Fourth Edition (SDRT4)?
300
The way a student score is usually expressed
What is a percentage?
300
SDRT4
What is Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test?
300
The greatest number of items on the test for each skill.
What is four?
300
Whether a test measures what it is supposed to measure
What is validity?
300
Battery of screening tests in reading, spelling, and math
What is the Wide Range Achievement Test, Fourth Edition (WRAT-4)?
400
The purpose of norm-referenced tests
What is determining whether each student has achieved specific skills or concepts?
400
ITBS
What is Iowa Tests of Basic Skills?
400
The ways a score is expressed for each individual
What is percentile, a grade equivalent score, or a stanine?
400
Group Survey Tests
What is a series of test at different levels?
400
Measures students' strengths and weaknesses in nine components of reading and language
What is the Diagnostic Assessment of Reading (DAR)?
500
Each individual is compared with a preset standard for acceptable achievement so the performance of others is irrelevant.
What is the way scores are interpreted for norm-referenced tests?
500
TPRI
What is Texas Primary Reading Inventory?
500
The main purpose of criterion-referenced tests
What is to discriminate between high and low achievers?
500
Designed to be given to a single student and are used widely in assessing students with reading problems
What is individual survey tests?
500
Designed to measure overall intellectual ability, specific cognitive abilities, academic aptitude, oral language, and achievement for ages 2-adult.
What is the Woodcock-Johnson III (WJ-III)?
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