Definitions 1
Refers to the current level of knowledge or skill in a particular area
What is Ability?
A type of psychological test
What is an achievement test, intelligence test or an aptitude test?
The midpoint of the curve. The average.
What is the mean?
Measures a person's tendency to behave in a particular way
What is a Personality test?
Administered 1 minute and 5 minutes after birth
what is the Apgar scale?
The degree to which the test serves the intended purpose
What is Validity?
Passed in 2001, required all states to develop and administer tests to measure achievement in public schools.
What is the no child left behind act?
Has specified content, procedures for administration and scoring and normative data for interpreting scores.
What is a standardized test?
Provides information on how the individual performed in some standard or objective.
What is Criterion-referenced test?
Used primarily to identify children who might benefit from early intervention or special services
What is a developmental screening?
The potential to learn or develop proficiency in some area, provided that certain conditions exist or training is available
What is aptitude?
Tests that have not been standardized.
What is an informal test?
The extent to which a test is stable or consistent
What is reliability?
Related to the extend to which a person has acquired certain information or mastered identified skills.
What is achievement?
Provide information on how the performance of an individual compares with others
What is a norm-referenced test?
Test takers score as expressed in terms of its position within a group of 100 scores.
What is percentile rank?
Ability tests that assess overall intellectual funtioning
What is an Intelligence test?
The extent to which a test measures a relatively abstract psychological trait or construct
What is construct validity?
The process of gathering information about children from several forms of evidence
What is an assessment?
The number of items answered correctly
What is the raw score?
Uses some type of performance by a child to demonstrate understanding
An estimate of the possible magnitude of error present in test scores
What is a standard error of measure?
Rather than using a future measure to determine validity, current measures are used
What is concurrent validity?
Represents the ideal distribution of test scores of groups of people
What is the normal curve?
How test scores are dispersed around the mean
What is the standard deviation?