An assessment where student performance or performances are compared to that or those of a larger group. Usually the larger group or "norm group" is a national sample representing a wide and diverse cross-section of students. Students, schools, districts, and even states are compared or rank-ordered in relation to the norm group. The purpose of this assessment is usually to sort students and not to measure achievement towards some criterion of performance.
What is a norm referenced assessment?
100
A carefully planned activity that requires learners to address all the components of performance of a standard in a way that is meaningful and authentic. These tasks can be used for both instructional and assessment purposes.
What is a performance task?
100
This assessment is a comprehensive measure of student reading ability and is administered individually to examine word recognition, fluency, comprehension, and overall reading level.
What is an Informal Reading Inventory?
100
The consistency with which two or more judges rate the work or performance of test takers.
What is inter-rater reliability?
100
Composed of two vowel sounds that together record one sound that is different from the sound that either of them would make separately for example:
ow in cow; ou in out; oy in soy; oi in oil; ew in new
What is a diphthong?
200
Evaluation of learners on the basis of tests following the completion of a particular set of curriculum materials. A commercial text and its accompanying workbook is an example of this type of assessment.
What is a materials-based assessment?
200
An exercise for which examinees must choose a response from an enumerated set (multiple choice) rather than create their own responses or products (performance assessment).
What is a selected response item?
200
Developed by Marie Clay, this assessment allows the teacher to observe and record student's word-reading error rate, self-correction rate, miscues, and other reading behaviors such as word repetition, reading directionality, etc.
What is a running record?
200
A performance standard that is established by a reference group and that describes average or typical performance. Usually these are determined by testing a representative group and then calculating the group's test performance.
What are norms?
200
Composed of two consonants that record a single sound that is different from the sound that either one would make separately. For example ch in chin; ng in ring; wh in what, ph in phone, gh in tough
What is a consonant digraph?
300
An assessment where an individual's performance is compared to a specific learning objective or performance standard and not to the performance of other students. This assessment tells us how well students are performing on specific goals or standards rather that just telling how their performance compares to a norm group of students nationally or locally.
What is a criterion-referenced assessment?
300
A culminating assessment, which gives information on students' mastery of content, knowledge, or skills.
What is a summative assessment?
300
This assessment term was coined by Yetta Goodman, and refers to a host of observations ranging from observations captured quickly on sticky notes, to home visits, to more formal assessments.
What is kidwatching?
300
How accurately a score will be reproduced if an individual is measured again. The degree to which the results of an assessment are dependable and consistently measure particular student knowledge and/or skills. If a test is this, it is an indication of the consistency of scores across raters, over time, or across different tasks or items that measure the same thing. Thus, reliability may be expressed as (a) the relationship between test items intended to measure the same skill or knowledge (b) the relationship between two administrations of the same test to the same student or students, or (c) the degree of agreement between two or more raters. Without his, an assessment cannot be valid.
What is reliability?
300
This occurs when two adjacent vowels record one sound. Example: ai in train, ee in beet, ie in pie, oa in boat, oo in cook, ui in fruit, ay in pay, ea in beat, ow in crow, oo in blood, oo in noon.
What is a vowel digraph?
400
A process for examining performance that views literacy as practices and critical reflection; requires the use of a broad range of strategies in assessment; and provides an active role for learners in the assessment process.
What is performance-based assessment or authentic assessment?
400
An exercise for which examinees must create their own responses or products (performance assessment) rather than choose a response from an enumerated set (multiple choice).
What is a constructed response?
400
A type of authentic assessment, this assessment is a collection of student work and is maintained by the teacher as a way of keeping a diverse collection of artifacts related to the child's reading and writing progress. Some artifacts include lists of books read, reading journals, learning logs, and running records.
What is portfolio assessment?
400
This term refers to the mean (average), the median (the point on a distribution where there are equal numbers of scores above and below), and the mode (the most frequently occurring score).
What are measures of central tendency?
400
When children understand that these ( the initial consonant or consonant blend before the vowel) can be spliced onto the same rime, they can make new and different words
Rime - often a rhyme, the vowel and any consonants that follow it.
For example - in the word peg - “p” is the _____ and “eg” is the rime
What is an onset?
500
Assessment that provides feedback to the teacher for the purpose of improving instruction.
What is a formative assessment?
500
An assessment that is designed to assess each student's performance on state standards. Sometimes referred to as a high-stakes test and in Missouri, used to determine if a school is achieving or underachieving.
What is an a standards-based assessment?
500
A test for diagnosing reading ability; words are deleted from a prose passage and the reader is required to fill in the blanks.
What is a cloze test?
500
The extent to which an assessment measures what it is supposed to measure and the extent to which inferences and actions made on the basis of test scores are appropriate and accurate. For example, if a student performs well on a reading test, how confident are we that that student is a good reader? A valid standards-based assessment is aligned with the standards intended to be measured, provides an accurate and reliable estimate of students' performance relative to the standard, and is fair. An assessment cannot be valid if it is not this.
What is reliability?
500
This consists of two or three consonant letters that appear together. Each consonant retains some element of its own sound while ____________ with that of others. Example: bl in black, cr in crow, pl in play, sk in skip, str in string, spl in split, dr in drum.