History
Assessments
Common Misconceptions
Standard Makeup
Nothing is here!!!
100
A landmark article/event in modern American educational history. Among other things, this report contributed to the ever-growing assertion that American schools were failing and it touched off a wave of local, state, and federal reform efforts.
What is A Nation at Risk.
100
Under the President George W. Bush era, this federal education law required that states test, disaggregate and report data on student performance, but allowed states to continue deciding on their own which standards and tests to use.
What is No Child Left Behind?
100
Often, these individuals are blamed for writing the standards.
Who are governors, lawmakers, and Lobbyists?
100
Of the two types of standards, college and career readiness and K-12 standards, these standards were created first.
What is college and career readiness?
200
The Year 1983.
What is when A Nation at Risk was written?
200
These types of assessments are designed to measure student performance against a fixed set of predetermined criteria or learning standards, concise, written descriptions of what students are expected to know and be able to do at a specific stage in their education.
What are criterion referenced tests?
200
This type of approach to instruction disregards chronological age. Students level of functioning is determined based upon standardized assessment and instruction begins where students failed to perform. Students do not move on until pre-requisite skills are learned.
What is a developmental approach to teaching?
200
This is the part or the standard that doesn't necessarily change from grade level to grade level.
What is the strand or the standard?
300
This president was in office when A Nation at Risk was written.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
300
These assessments refer to standardized tests that are designed to compare and rank test takers in relation to one another. These tests report whether test takers performed better or worse than a hypothetical average student of the same age or grade level that has already taken the exam.
What are norm-referenced tests?
300
This approach to teaching highlights the belief that students not only can learn, but also can learn meaningful skills that would improve their quality of life by providing them with critical skills to be as independent as possible at home and in the community.
What is a functional approach to instruction?
300
This is the part of the standard that changes from year to year, building in complexity each year.
What are the benchmarks?
400
In the 1990's this movement took off as a result of the work of the National Governors Association.
What is the Standards and Accountability Movement?
400
This type of assessment is used to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning.
What is a Formative Assessment?
400
There is a common misconception that these teachers are not expected to teach core academics.
Who are special education teachers?
400
These are the benchmarks or standards that the district has identified as most important to learn?
What are the essential outcomes?
500
This is the number of states that initially adopted the standards based movement.
What is 44 out of 50?
500
The goal of this type of assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark. Information from these assessments can be used formatively when students or faculty use it to guide their efforts.
What is a Summative Assessment?
500
The percent or lack of academic learning that should be acceptable in our school.
What is zero?
500
This group of people played a critical role in developing standards including serving on work groups, and in providing specific constructive feedback on the standards.
Who are teachers?
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