Assessment Type/Style
What is Sound Assessment?
The art of being held responsible for something-meeting a standard of performance.
What is accountability?
The number of times that something, such as behavior or a specific answer occurs.
What is frequency?
An outcome statement that specifies what every child should know and be able to do.
What is Content standard?
State Level organization that provides guidance through Workforce Commission.
What is TRS or Texas Rising Star?
A type of performance assessment that uses tasks related to real-life practical and intellectual challenges.
What is authentic assessment?
The shift or change in assessment procedures.
What is accommodation?
What is Documentation?
Area of development, usually including psychomotor development, cognitive, and affective.
What is DOMAIN?
Federal Level organization that provides updated standards every year regarding the proper function of non-profit early childhood centers under a specific umbrella.
What is Head Start?
Standard form of assessment using a specific instrument/format.
What is Formal Assessment?
Process of making a judgement on an assessments results.
What is evaluation?
Refers to having gathered information from different sources, in different settings or context.
What is multiple measures?
An assessment that compares a child's performance with a set of developmental norms established through research.
What is developmental rating scale or developmental profile?
What is NAEYC?
Assessments developed and used by teachers in their classrooms on a day to day basis.
What is Classroom assessment/classroom embedded assessment?
To line up, be consistent with, or get into position with.
A means of determining where a child stands compared with a criterion or with a performance standard-rather than compared with other children.
What is criterion-referencing?
Purposeful collection of the child's work and other indicators.
What is a portfolio?
The understanding that this is the best practice or standard of ECE across the country for children's learning and development.
What is Developmentally appropriate practice?
Assessment that is related to the overall function or result based on action.
What is Performance based assessment?
A point of reference for measurement and evaluation.
What is Benchmark or milestone?
An in-depth appraisal of a child by a specialist to identify specific abilities and needs-usually done after an initial screening.
What is diagnostic evaluation?
Any or several kinds of records that describe children's behavior.
The type of assessment that this class is based on.
What is Developmentally Appropriate Assessment?