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ESSA levels & research studies
Research terminology
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Assessment types
100

Centered around the 5 pillars of reading

What is Reading Eggs?

100

The lowest level of evidence recognized by ESSA. 

What is under review or under evaluation?

100

A collection of questions pulled together using a specific blueprint. 

What is an item bank?

100

ESSA

What is Every Student Succeeds Act?

100

Examples of this type of assessment include thumbs up/thumbs down, group sessions, and exit tickets. 

What is formative assessment? 

200

Offers ThinkIts and is developed by our UK partners 

What is EducationCity?

200

This level of ESSA evidence requires a structured experiment, control and random groups, and a positive effect size. 

What is strong evidence? 

200

Provides a comparison of students' performance to that of the average performance of others of the same grade or age

What is a norm-referenced test?

200

ELF 

What is Edmentum Learning Framework?

200

An assessment used to evaluate learning at the end of an educational period. 

What is summative assessment? 

300

Research is Currently "under review" within ESSA research level of evidence descriptions 

What is Courseware?

300

This level of ESSA evidence requires correlational research and typically uses a scatterplot as a visual. 

What is promising evidence? 

300

When an assessment measures what it is supposed to measure. 

What is validity?

300

RTI 

What is Response to Intervention?

300

Benchmark assessments, mid-term exams, progress checks are all examples of _______ 

What is interim assessments?

400

Ties norm referenced assessment to instruction

What is Exact Path?

400

This type of research includes everything but random assignment and may result in Moderate levels of evidence. 

What is quasi-experimental research?  

400

If a test produces stable and consistent results, it is….. 

 What is reliable? 

400

PLC

Professional Learning Community 

400

The strategic use of formative, interim, and summative assessments to measure student performance. 

What is balanced assessment?

500

Contains criterion-referenced assessments 

What is Study Island OR Courseware?

500

For this level of evidence, a .20 effect size is needed.

What is strong evidence?

500

The ability for an interim assessment to show the likely performance on a summative assessment 

What is predictive validity?

500

ELL 

What is English Language Learner?

500

A type of test whose items are chosen from the item bank in real time. 

What is a computer adaptive test?