Definitions
Standardized Tests
Achievement Gap
Reforms
Random Bits
100
Relative performance of individual students
What is a Learning Gap
100
Standardized Test
What is administered and scored in a consistent, or "standard", manner
100
Generally speaking, (blank)refers to outputs—the unequal or inequitable distribution of educational results and benefits
Achievement Gap
100
Name 1 method for reducing the achievement gap?
ALL THE WAYS
100
2 Universities chartered by congress
What is Georgetown University and the American University
200
Opportunity Gap
What is the unequal or inequitable distribution of resources and opportunities
200
America has been trending (Blank) on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
What is downward from 23rd in 2009 to 29th in 2012.
200
Name any 3 sub-groups that perform best (on average) on American Standardized Tests
What is: Male, Asian American, High Income, non-education or physically impaired*, Lineage (in College), American-Born Parents.
200
Give 2 examples of how access bias can be fought
What is Greater access to: public transportation, reduced meal prices, more counseling etc.
200
I think this class needs a little bit more (blank) - SNL
What is Cowbell
300
Equal allocation of funds
What is funds allocated based on simple existence and without bias.
300
Between the SAT and ACT, (Blank) came first in 1926
What is the SAT
300
Name any 5 sub-groups that perform worse (on average) on American Standardized Tests
What is: Female, African-American, Low Income, Disabled/Learning Impaired, First Generation (in College), Non-American Parents
300
Give an example of how a school might allocate funds equitably
What is What is minority, low-income, and special-needs students might receive comparatively more resources in an attempt to compensate for and overcome preexisting factors that might place them at an educational disadvantage
300
What does ISIL stand for
What is the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
400
An unconscious response to a prevailing negative stereotype about an identifiable group by a member of that group.
Stereotype Threat
400
Name (acronym and full) 4 Standardized Tests
What is Law School Admission Test (LSAT), SAT (also Scholastic Aptitude Test, or Scholastic Assessment Test), ACT (American College Test), National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Any number of State based HS tests
400
Give An Example of Stereotype Threat
African Americans are not smart based on statistical fact of standardized test scores. African American takes test believing stereotype and how they will do poorly on test reflecting badly on self and African Americans. Suffers anxiety, does badly on test.
400
The policy of favoring members of a disadvantaged group who are perceived to suffer from discrimination within a culture.
What is Affirmative Action
400
19th President of the United States of America
What is Rutherford B. Hayes
500
Define Construct-validity bias and give an example of when it may occur
What is when a test does not accurately measures what it was designed to measure. On an intelligence test, for example, students who are learning English will likely encounter words they haven’t learned, and consequently test results may reflect their relatively weak English-language skills rather than their intellectual abilities.
500
Define Content-validity bias and give an example of when it may arise
The content of a test is comparatively more difficult for one group of students than for others. It can occur when members of a student subgroup, such as various minority groups, have not been given the same opportunity to learn the material being tested, when scoring is unfair to a group (for example, the answers that would make sense in one group’s culture are deemed incorrect), or when questions are worded in ways that are unfamiliar to certain students because of linguistic or cultural differences.
500
Define and give an example of Programmatic inequity
School programs may be structured in ways that are perceived to be unfair because they contribute to inequitable or unequal educational results for some students. For example, students of color tend, on average, to be disproportionately represented in lower-level classes with lower academic expectations.
500
Give four examples of how testing bias can be removed
What is: Striving for diversity in test-development staffing, Eliminating items that produce the largest racial and cultural performance gaps, Translating tests into a test taker’s native language or using interpreters to translate test items, Including more “performance-based” items to limit the role that language and word-choice plays in test performance.
500
You have 3 cookies. One emits alpha radiation, one emits beta radiation and one emits gamma radiation. You have to eat one, put one in your pocket and throw one away. Where do you put each?
What is: eat Gamma (high radiation but low give off of energy) put Alpha in pocket (High radiation but energy but easily stopped) throw away Beta (High radiation, high give off)
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