Types of Decisions Made by Educational Institutions on Psychological Tests
Tests Used for Decisions in the Classroom
Ways Assessments Benefit the Instructional Process
Basic Vocabulary
Norm-Referenced, Criterion-Referenced, and Authentic Assessment of Achievement
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Classroom teachers use the results of teacher made tests to determine the pace of their courses. Example: should they slow down, speed up, continue their pace, or skip a topic completely. This requires a _____ type of decision
What is an Instructional Decision?
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These psychological tests are used for making decisions at the beginning of instruction; they are used to determine the extent to which students possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to understand new material and how much of the material to be taught students already know.
What are Placement Assessments?
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Tests contain items to measure student learning. When a student takes a test, the student can see what knowledge, skills or abilities is expected. After the student gets the results from a test, he or she expected to learn, as well as what he or she did learn, to target future study efforts
What is Student Motivation?
100
Assessment that measures a student's ability to apply in real-world settings the knowledge and skills he or she has learned
What is authentic assessment
100
With this type of test, we are able to compare students' performance at one school with the performance of students at other schools.
What is a norm-referenced test?
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Typically this decision is made by classroom teachers using the results of teacher made tests to asign grades to students. Example - teachers administer quizzes, mid-term and final exams.
What is a Grading Decision?
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For decisions made during instruction, these types of psychological tests are used to help teachers determine what information students are and are not learning during the instructional process. Also used for identifying where students need help and whether it is appropriate to move on to the next unit.
What are Formative Assessments?
200
What do the following tests assess when they are testing for visual, auditory, kinesthetic, or tactical learning; others of these tests are assessing introversion/extroversion, intuition/sensation, thinking/feeling, and judging/perceiving.
What is Assessing Learning Styles?
200
This assessment involves an in-depth evaluation of an individual to identify characteristics for treatment or enhancement.
What is a diagnostic assessment?
200
True or False? Educators believe that using norm-referenced tests to measure student achievement can be harmful to the educational process?
What is True?
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With this type of decision, specialists or administrators use the results of standardized tests, like SAT to make admissions decisions and select individuals for special programs. Example: gifted and remedial programs
What is a Selection Decision?
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At the end of the year, teachers typically use _________, which help them determine what students do and do not know (gauge student learning) and are typically used to assign earned grades.
What are Summative Assessments?
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This type of assessment has become a popular tool tool in the 1990s. It is a collection of an individual's work, to highlight student learning and assess student performance.
What is a porfolio?
300
Tests that involve comparing an individual's test score with an objectively stated standard of achievement such as being able to multiply numbers.
What are criterion-referenced tests?
300
This type of test allows us to make statements such as "Zachary has learned 50% of the material he needs to know to demonstrate proficiency in third-grade mathematics" and "Zachary still needs to work on his multiplication."
What is a criterion-referenced test?
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Specialists or administrators used standardized tests to place individuals into the proper level of a course. Example: colleges and universities may use test scores to determine in which math course an individual should be placed.
What is a Placement Decision?
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Teachers use ____________ to answer the question, "On which learning tests are students progressing satisfactorily?"
What are Formative Assessments?
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These types of tests, called _________________ are used to make placement decisions when student performance significally impacts educational paths or choices. Sometimes used to determine whether a student is retained in a grade level, is promoted to the next grade level, or graduates.
What are high stakes tests?
400
Decisions that are typically made by testing specialists, educational administrators, or committees to make changes to educational systems.
What are Administrative Policy Decisions?
400
True or False? Individuals all agree that norm- and criterion-referenced tests need more focus on measuring understanding and knowledge and skills, using authentic assessment
What is False?
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Specialists or administrators use test scores from standardized tests at the school or district level to hel students select majors. This is an example of ____?
What are Counseling and Guidance decisions?
500
Teachers use both formative and summative tests. When used as a ____________________ assessment, the test is used to direct future instruction.
What is formative?
500
As a part of Florida's overall plan to raise standards and improve student achievement, the state administers this criterion-referenced test in Grades 3 - 11 to measure student progress toward meeting the Sunshine State Standards benchmarks in mathematics, reading, science, and writing.
What is the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT)?
500
Tests that determine how well an individual's acheivement compares with the achievement of others and that distinguish between high and low achievers.
What are SAT,ACT, GRE, Stanford Achievement Test, Iowa Tests of Basic Skills?
500
Tests that involve comparing an individual's test score with objectively stated standard of achievement. Example: "Zach has learned 50% of the material he needs to know to demonstrate proficiencies in third grade mathematics."
What are criterion-referenced tests?
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