Definitions
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Definitions 3
Examples
100
A test that has clear cut administration directions/scripted.
What is a Formal Assessment?
100
Compares one student's score with the results of what is normally expected with other students either the same age or grade
What is Norm-Referenced?
100
Indicates the score that the average student at the grade level achieved.
What is Grade Equivalent?
100
A standardized achievement test - MCA, MTEL.
What is Formal?
200
A student's test score is based on a pre-established standard.
What is Criterion-Referenced?
200
A continuous ranking of scores through grades.
What is a Scale Score?
200
A point on a 9 point scale with 5 being the average.
What is a Stanine?
200
Types of scores reported: percentile rank, raw scores, grade-equivalent.
What is Norm Referenced?
300
A test that the teacher can determine how to interpret results.
What is an Informal assessment?
300
Represents the total number of correct answers.
What is a Raw Score?
300
The point on a scale of 1 to 99 that shows what percentage of students obtained an equal or lower score.
What is a Percentile Rank?
300
Essay tests, informal reading inventories, and running records.
What is Informal?
400
Administered individually 3x a year
What is screening?
400
Indicates a mastery of skill and identifies specific student deficits.
What is Diagnostic?
400
Rank scores on a scale of 1 through 99 and might show patterns of strengths & weaknesses.
What is a Normal Curve Equivalent?
400
DIBELS, Questionnaires
What is Screening?
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