Commercially prepared tests used to assess the achievement of large #'s of students in reading, math , and other academic areas
What is Standardized Test
100
Test content is most likely to reflect the knowledge and values of mainstream society
What is Content and conceptual Bias
100
Demands on teacher's time are daunting
What is Time
100
Quick to construct and evaluate, can be used to estimate how well a student will fare with particular text
What is Cloze passages
200
Is intended to make a summarizing judgment of what a person has learned or done
What is Summative Assessment
200
Used to describe a broad range of assessment tasks and data that are based on everyday situations or realistic applications of content knowledge and concepts
What is Authentic Assessment/Test
200
Lack of familiarity with academic English, with specific vocabulary, or with familiar synonyms
What is Linguistic Bias
200
Will teachers have the requisite knowledge of assessment to "teach to the test?
What is Teacher Knowledge and training
200
a type of test, assessment, or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population, with respect to the trait being measured
What is norm referenced
300
This area has to do with sensitivity to sounds, rhythms, tones, and music
What is musical rhythmic
300
International assessment of reading, mathematics and science conducted by the organization for economic cooperation and development (oecd)
What is International Assessment/Test
300
The mainstream conventions of testing, where adults request known answers to questions that have no apparent functional goal, may be perceived as foolish or nonsensical to members of other cultures
What is Functional Bias
300
How well will other stakeholders -parents, administrators, tax-payers, and so on
What is Credibility
300
Variation of a cognitive assessment for learning process described by brown lie
What is SCLA
400
This area deals with spatial judgment and the ability to visualize with the mind's eye
What is Visual Spatial
400
U.S Congress mandated samples of reading and writing abilities of students under the NAEP
What is National Assessment
400
Results of testing are often used as graduations requirements or to place students in remedial or lower-track classes.
What is Consequential Bias
400
How can we be sure that a particular assessment tool is really telling us what we want to know
What is Validity
400
Being sure that a particular assessment tool is really telling us what we want to know?
What is Validity
500
This area has to do with interaction with others.
What is interpersonal
500
Statewide performance assessments of reading and writing which include longer and more complex reading selections from variety of genres, higher-level comprehension questions, extended written responses and cross-text analyses
What is State Assessment
500
the phenomenon of interpreting and judging phenomena by standards inherent to one's own culture.
What is Cultural Bias
500
How can we deal with pressure to "teach to the test"
What is Influences on curriculum and teaching
500
Assessment fairly reflecting the abilities of all our students, especially those from diverse linguistic, social or cultural backgrounds