Standardized Tests
Designed to yield either norm-referenced or criterion-referenced inferences that is administered, scored, and interpreted in a standard, predetermined manner
What is a Standardized test?
Developed by Benjamin Bloom, the three categories of objectives in a classroom
What are affective, cognitive, and psychomotor?
One negative outcome of multiple choice questions
What is there is a higher guessing percentage?
The SAT or ACT are examples of this.
What is a college entrance exam?
What is a portfolio?
The number of items a student scored correctly with no manipulation
What is Raw Score?
Refers to accuracy of inferences based off test results
What is validity?
One of the 2 types of question that should avoid using negative phrasing.
What are true/false OR multiple choice?
Testing when the student is personally ready to do so.
What is On Demand Examination?
How teachers can measure affect
What is a self-report inventory?
The measure of an assessment’s or question's effectiveness in separating high-achieving from low-achieving students
What is the Discrimination Index?
The degree of meaningful agreement between 2 or more: curriculum, assessment, instruction
What is alignment?
You should provide this on fill-in-the-blank questions for younger, lower, special needs, or EL students
What is a word bank?
Any action that is unfair/dishonest and used to gain an academic advantage.
What is cheating?
One of the 5 things you should avoid as a test-writer.
1. Providing opaque directions
2. Using ambiguous statements
3. Giving unintentional clues
4. Employing complex sentence syntax
5. Utilizing advanced vocabulary
An individual focused interpretation that is an indicator of a student’s performance based on grade level and months in the year
What is a Grade Equivalent Score?
A type of bias where content of items could put certain groups of test takers at a disadvantage (or advantage)
What is unfair penalization?
Where blanks should be placed in a fill in the blank question
What is at the middle or end?
A standardized test that students must pass to receive their high school diploma
What is a high school exit exam?
To develop a defensible way to explain what students know about content
What is the purpose of grading?
It compares a student's scores with other students in a norm group, typically indicating how many students the test-taker outperformed in the norm group.
What is the Percentile Rank?
An individual’s understanding of the fundamental assessment concepts and procedures deemed likely to influence educational decisions
Entries that need a match in a set of matching questions are called this.
What is the premise?
Disparities in educational attainment between different racial and ethnic groups
What is the racial achievement gap?
Students learning skills from the foundation up & teachers reinforcing those skills across grades and/or classes
What is vertical alignment?