Curriculum also referred to as implicit curriculum.
What is informal curriculum?
100
Testing student skills before beginning the curriculum.
What is pretesting/diagnostic assessment?
100
The meaning of 0 on a scale of 1-5.
On a rubric, what is not attempted?
100
The content of a specific set of standards.
What are standards-based tests made according to?
200
Most likely thought of as the teacher, but reaches to a larger base (i.e. parents, school boards, community).
Who is accountable?
200
The teaching we do outside of the classroom through attitudes, habits, and values.
What is wayside teaching?
200
Test used to evaluate student achievement.
What is summative assessment?
200
Makes judgements based on the results of assessments.
What is evaluation?
200
Tests that have far-reaching consequences if failed.
What are high stakes tests?
300
Two most notable government acts defining what is taught in schools
What is No Child Left Behind Act or
What is Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
300
What isn't taught.
What is null curriculum?
300
Used interchangeably with performance assessment.
What is alternative assessment and authentic assessment?
300
Holistic Rubric
What uses one scale for an entire project?
300
Many nationally published ___________ _____ provide detailed score reports for the individual students used for diagnostic purpose.
What are Standardized Tests?
400
Often accomplished through weaving different ideas and perspectives together to bring a point across.
What is Integrated Curriculum?
400
Topics that are avoided due to being controversial.
What is null curriculum?
400
The 7 forms of assessment.
What are forced choice, essay, short response, oral report, teacher observation, student self-assessment, performance tasks?
400
Specifies separate parts of an assessment, task, or product and the characteristics of the levels of success for each.
What is an Analytic Rubric?
400
Phrase almost always viewed negatively.
What is "teaching to the test?"
500
Includes rigorous content and application of knowledge through high-order skills.
What are Common Core Standards.
500
When most extracurricular activities start
What is in middle school and high school?
500
The 4 purposes of assessment.
What is monitoring student progress, making instructional decisions, evaluating student's achievement, and evaluating programs.
500
for instruction, communication, administration, and guidance.
How are grades used?
500
Pros and cons to standardized testing.
What are
Pros:
1. measure progress towards goals
2. measures where help is needed through large groups
3. cost effective
4. Without testing on large scale there is no way to determine how schools and teachers are doing at their jobs
Cons:
1. results are often misused
2. tests are often poorly constructed
3. reduces curriculum by requiring teachers to teach a certain way
4. low income students normally score lower than high income, showing that tests may actually test what is outside of school
5. pressure from high-stakes tests can't determine productivity
6. don't measure important concepts