Data & Decision Making
Teachers use assessment results to adjust this.
What is instruction?
These assessments require students to demonstrate skills or create a product.
What are performance-based assessments?
This type of feedback is specific and helps students improve learning.
What is descriptive feedback?
Assessments should align with this to be meaningful.
What are learning objectives?
This type of assessment is used during instruction to monitor student learning.
What is formative assessment?
This process involves analyzing student data to guide teaching decisions.
What is data-driven instruction?
Multiple choice, true/false, and matching fall under this type of assessment.
What are selected-response assessments?
Grades that reflect mastery of specific skills rather than overall performance are called this.
What is standards-based grading?
This ensures all students have an equal opportunity to demonstrate learning.
What is fairness?
This type of assessment evaluates student learning at the end of instruction.
What is summative assessment?
Grouping students based on assessment data is called this.
What is flexible grouping?
This type of assessment asks students to generate their own answers.
What are constructed-response assessments?
This grading issue occurs when teachers allow behavior or effort to influence academic grades.
What is grading bias?
This practice involves adjusting assessments for students with diverse needs.
What are accommodations/modifications?
This term refers to how consistent an assessment is over time.
What is reliability?
This type of assessment is given before instruction begins.
What is diagnostic (or pre-assessment)?
A collection of student work over time used to show growth is called this.
What is a portfolio?
Providing feedback quickly after assessment is important for this reason.
What is improving student learning (or timely feedback impact)?
Using multiple types of assessments helps improve this.
What is validity?
This term refers to whether an assessment actually measures what it is intended to measure.
What is validity?
When teachers continuously adjust teaching based on student responses, it is called this.
What is responsive teaching (or formative use of data)?
This assessment type measures students against a fixed set of standards.
What is criterion-referenced assessment?
This type of grading uses percentages or points accumulated over time.
What is traditional grading?
This concept refers to removing bias related to culture, language, or background.
What is equity in assessment?
This type of assessment compares students to one another rather than a standard.
What is norm-referenced assessment?