Assessment

Terms

100

When scores on a test are used to sort or rank students.

What is norm referencing?

200

Assessment based on a pre-defined level of performance

What is criterion referencing?

300

A measure of how spread out a group of scores are (a large value represents a big spread in scores).

What is the standard deviation?

400

This tells whether or not test results can be replicated.

What is reliability?

500

This tells whether or not the test measures what it is meant to measure.

What is validity?

Formats

100

An assessment that provides details about levels of performance along a variety of criteria, from inadequate to exemplary, organized as a matrix

What is a rubric?

200

This kind of assessment shows the end result of learning over time.

What is a summative assessment?

300

This kind of assessment shows learning as it happens.

What is formative assessment?

400

A kind of interactive assessment that adapts as the conditions change in a learner’s performance, to determine the learner’s skill and potential

What is dynamic assessment?

500

A careful assessment of a learner’s understanding through use of focused questioning

What is probes?

Tools

100

This assessment tool collects samples of student work that demonstrate learning.

What is a portfolio?

200

This assessment tool allows students to share what they have learned with an audience.

What is a presentation?

300

This assessment tool allows students to work individually or in groups to solve a real-world problem.

What is a project?

400

A word-for-word tracking of a learner’s oral reading, as compared to the source text, useful as an assessment of reading miscues and self-correcting behaviors

What is a running record?

500

This kind of assessment demonstrates students' ability to perform real-world tasks as if they were actually at work outside the classroom.

What is authentic assessment?

Potpourri

100

This kind of testing uses scores to make important decisions about students' futures.

What is high stakes testing?

200

This theoretical construct has been used extensively to determine the content of many standardized tests.

What is IQ?

300

This geometric figure is used to describe the outcome of norm-referenced tests.

What is the bell curve?

400

This popular and time-honored measure of a student's learning is often unrelated to effective assessment of that learning.

What is a grade?

500

The results of this test are used to determine adequate yearly progress of student learning.

What is NAEP?

Focus

100

Motivation; interests; identity; engagement

What are the affective dimensions of being literate?

200

Accuracy + rate + intonation

What is fluency?

300

Letter recognition; concepts about print; sound-symbol correspondences; print awareness

What are emergent literacy skills?

400

Decoding; encoding

What is phonics?

500

Facets include letter formation; composing strategies (process); discourse knowledge; organization; sentence construction; conventions (punctuation; grammar; spelling)

What is writing?