Chapter 6
A _________________ is the number of weeks you must teach before you need to prepare a grade for each student’s report card. In a typical academic year, a marking period consists of 9 weeks.
Marking period
A description of all possible tasks that might be appropriate for assessing achievement for a particular set of learning targets.
Domain of achievement
_________________ is the soundness of your interpretations and uses of students’ assessment results.
Validity
Give an example of a process that would be given on a performance task.
Examples include: Present an argument orally, play a musical piece, climb a knotted rope, etc.
A ______________________ is a teaching sequence covering from 1 to 7 weeks of lessons, depending on the students and topics you are teaching.
Unit of instruction
A procedure for estimating reliability when the focus of the study is the consistency of the students’ scores from one occasion to the next on the same test items.
Test-retest reliability coefficient
The _______________________________ combines the results from several different types of assessments (such as homework, class performance, quizzes, projects, and tests) to improve the validity of your decisions about a student’s attainments.
Multiple Assessment Strategy
Give an example of a product on a performance task.
Write a poem, report on an experiment, create a painting, etc.
A ___________________________ is a plan you use to help you assess cognitive and affective learning objectives for an upcoming unit.
Pre-instruction unit assessment framework
Two forms of an assessment that are made up of tasks carefully matched to the same blueprint are called ________________________________.
Parallel forms
Evidence of an assessment’s _______________________________________ comes from judgments of informed persons that focus on whether the assessment tasks are a representative sample from a larger domain of performance.
Content representativeness
How long is a marking period generally speaking?
Nine weeks
A __________________ is a selected sequence of a student’s work that demonstrates progress or development toward achieving the learning objective(s).
Growth portfolio
In applying the ____________________________, the entire test is administered once to the students. Then the test’s items are organized into two equivalent halves. Each half (called a split) is considered to be a separate (albeit smaller) sample of tasks.
Split-halves procedure
Validity evidence that focuses on the degree of overlap between a specific curriculum and the specific tasks on a particular assessment.
Cirricular Relevance
What type of assessment should never be timed?
Split-Halves Procedure
______________________ require students to physically carry out a complex, extended process or produce an important product to test their knowledge.
Performance assessments
A ____________________________ is one for which there is not enough time for everyone to consider and attempt to answer each item.
Speeded assessment
The __________________ of an assessment is described by the interrelationships among the tasks and the relationship between the tasks and the total results.
Internal structure
What type of assessment shows growth over time through selected works by a student?