What?
A standardized test that compares student results to a benchmark.
What is a criterion reference test?
All teachers can administer diagnostic tests like the WRMT.
What is false?
1 standard deviation above and below the mean.
What is average? What is 68%? What is where do most of the scores lie?
A brief assessment that helps teachers identify students who are at risk of not meeting grade level standards.
What is a universal screener?
When a test produces consistent results.
What is reliability?
A standardized test that compares student results to other students.
What is a norm referenced test?
A score of 0 on 4 consecutive items.
What is the ceiling rule or the discontinue rule for the WRMT?
And for most individually administered standardized tests.
Exactly 1 SD above the mean in percentile rank.
What is 84%?
The name for the type of assessments given by teachers with special training such as special education or reading teachers.
What are individually administered standardized tests?
The equal interval scale used on the MAP tests.
When a test measures what it purports to measure.
What is validity?
When an examinee answers at least 3 items correctly before meeting the discontinue rule.
What is meets the basal rule?
Exactly 1 SD below the mean in percentile rank.
What is 16%?
The ISASP or the MCA.
What are the group administered tests required by the states of Iowa or MN to satisfy ESSA requirements?
The equal interval scale used on the WRMT.
What is GSV (growth scale value)?
6 characteristics of the norm group in a standardized test.
What are race; ethnicity; gender; ability; age; SES; geographic location; rural/urban/suburban; or language?
When an examinee meets the discontinue rule before answering 3 items correctly.
What is - drop back to the preceding start point or section?
Well above average.
What is a score that is between 2 and 3 SDs above the mean?
Name 3 characteristics of the FAST tests.
What are universal screening; progress monitoring; reading fluency; math; CAT (computer adapted); CBM; norm referenced; criterion referenced?
The level of difficulty associated with an RPI of 65/90.
What is very difficult?
A measure of the amount of variation in a set of scores.
What is the standard deviation?
The 5 tests that make up the Total Reading Cluster.
Misleading developmental scores that should not be used when reporting scores.
What are age and grade equivalent scores?
Give 2 examples of how standardized tests are used as high stakes tests.
to determine if a student is retained/held back a grade? to evaluate teachers based on their students' test scores? to evaluate schools as failing schools?
Tests with high reliability and validity have a high SEM.
What is false?