Interpreting Standardized Tests Vocabulary
What is the measure of an assessment’s effectiveness in separating high-achieving from low-achieving students?
Discrimination Index
Which individual focused interpretation is an indicator of a student’s performance based on grade level and months in the year?
Grade Equivalent Scores
What is one negative outcome of multiple choice questions?
There is a higher guessing percentage.
What is an example of a college entrance exam?
SAT
True or false…. When creating fill in the blank questions, you should place blanks at the beginning of the question.
False
What is the number of items a student scored correctly with no manipulation?
Raw Score
What compares a student's scores with other students in a norm group? It typically means that the student outperformed a certain number of students in the norm group.
Percentile
True or false… binary choice questions should avoid negatives?
True
What is On Demand Examination?
Testing when the student is personally ready to do so.
Who should you provide a word bank for?
Younger, lower, special needs, or EL students
What is the average difference between the individual scores in a set and the mean of that set?
Standard Deviation
Performance Categories typically have 4 performance levels? These levels include…
Below Basic, Basic, Proficient, and Advanced
What are two strength of fill in the blank questions?
It is harder for students to guess, and easy for teachers to grade.
What are the two new grading systems that are currently being debated?
Ungrading vs. Mastery Grading
What is a strength of constructing binary choice questions on your classroom tests?
Easy to grade, simple structure, and good place to start learning how to write good questions
What shows the total group of students currently taking the test OR had previously taken the test? Defined with a norm group; the group to which the student is compared.
Bell Curve
What is the difference between relative and absolute?
-Relative = can infer from the score how the student compares to other students who have taken the text (norm-referenced)
-Absolute= can infer from the score what students can do or not (criterion-referenced)
What is the premise of matching questions?
Entries that need a match
What is one disadvantage of college entrance exams?
Negative toll on mental health for students
Name at least two things you should avoid as a test-writer.
1. Provide opaque directions
2. Using ambiguous statements
3. Giving unintentional clues
4. Employing complex sentence syntax
5. Utilizing advanced vocabulary
What is a test designed to yield either norm-referenced or criterion-referenced inferences that is administered, scored, and interpreted in a standard, predetermined manner?
Standardized test
The scores that are ordered from low to high and then scores based on which ________ they fall into.
Stanine
What are the 2 categories of questions used when constructing traditional assessments and what is the difference between them?
-Selected response: require students to select and respond from a set of provided choices
-Constructed response: require students to generate their own response to a question.
ChatGPT, Grammarly, Khan Academy, ALEKS, ROYBI and IXL are examples of _______ websites.
Artificial Intelligence
When constructing selected response questions, what should teachers avoid testing?
Avoid testing LOTS and recall