Types of Assessment
Pre-planned methods of testing students that are used to determine how well students have learned the material that is taught
What is Formal Assessment?
Examples of different types, models, illustrations, or levels of possible responses that are used as guidelines for assessing student work
What is a Rubric?
Designed to measure the current level of learners’ performance
What is Achievement?
Who you are interpreting and communicating student results with
Who are students, parents/caregivers, and school personnel?
List the characteristics of assessment
The assessment teachers use everyday to evaluate the progress and comprehension skills of their individual skills
What is Informal Assessment?
Exit tickets, reflective journals, 60 second write, and rubrics
What is Self-Assessment?
Refers to the student’s capacity for altering behavior when presented with new information or experiences
What is Aptitude?
How a teacher communicates with their audience
What is appropriate language?
The ability of a product, to perform in a required manner, or produce a desired result consistently.
What is reliability?
On-going throughout the learning process- to discover where students are at the learning process
What is Formative Assessment?
Notes that a teacher makes while they are observing students in various classroom situations
What are Anecdotal Notes?
Does not measure specific content or achievement but focuses on a student's thought process and capability to problem-solve
What is Ability?
Standardized testing uses this form of scoring
What is Holistic Scoring?
The results of some transportation applied to the raw score and the report scores for all examinees on a consistent scale.
What is the purpose of Scaled Score?
A process in which the teacher determines how well students have mastered new concepts and skills and met lesson objectives
What is Summative Assessment?
Peer pressure and friendships can influence scores and students tend to award everyone the same points
What are the disadvantages of peer assessment?
Students scores are compared to other student scores
What is Norm-Referenced?
Breaks down the characteristics of an assignment into parts, allowing the scorer to itemize and define exactly what aspects are strong, and which ones need improvement
What is Analytic Scoring?
A measure of how closely centered scores are around the mean
What is Standard Deviation?
Norm-referenced and standardized but are designed to be administered to students who are showing signs of difficulty in specific subject areas
What is Diagnostic Assessment?
Students performance along a scale, the scale may correspond to points, letter grades, or instruction levels
What is Continuum?
Compare students’ knowledge and achievement in an academic area to those objectives of the curriculum established by state
What is Criterion-Referenced?
A teacher gives students a broad list of criteria indicating what is necessary to receive a particular score and then assigns a single score for a general impression of the assignment/test as a whole
What is Holistic?
A comparison of your child's performance compared to age groups whose average scores are in the same range
What are Age-equivalent scores?