A test where results of one student are compared to results of others based upon a norm group.
What is a Norm-Referenced Test?
100
A collection of artifacts put together to tell a story.
What is a portfolio?
100
Senior exhibitions, portfolios, capstone experiences etc.
What are alternative assessment practices?
100
The categories in an analytic rubric.
What is criteria?
100
Statements of intended learning - what the teacher hopes the students will be able to demonstrate knowing of after the lesson or instruction.
What are learning targets?
200
The interpretation of test score(s) is based upon number or percentage correct indicating a satisfactory level of performance.
What is criterion referenced?
200
Refer to the sentence or phrases representing each indicator at each level.
What are descriptors?
200
Asking instructional questions, class discussions, conferences and interviews, oral examinations, and student journals and logs.
What is personal communication as (classroom) assessment?
300
Percentile rank, standard deviation, stanine.
What are types of standardized test scores.
300
Assessments that provide the student with a genuine rather than a contrived learning experience that provides both the teacher and student with opportunities to learn what the student can do.
What is authentic assessment?
300
This rubric has two or more scales - features of quality have been organized into separate categories and are rated separately form one another.
What is an analytic rubric?
300
The requirements of the task or assessment should produce evidence of the learning target(s).
What is content validity?
400
Mean, median, mode.
What are measures of central tendency? Or what are descriptive statistics?
400
3 different types of assessment to get at different types of learning at different times during a marking period.
What is diagnostic, formative, summative assessment?
500
The types of portfolios according to Stiggins.
What are growth, project, achievement, competence, and celebration?
500
Answering the following questions as you create your assessments: Do assessment methods match the learning targets? Does the sample represent learning appropriately? Are items, tasks, and scoring rubrics of high quality? Does the assessment control for bias?