Vocabulary
Assessment in Schools
Techniques
Multicultural Considerations
100

The methodical process that involves the collection, evaluation, integration, and application of information to guide decision-making and achieve professional objectives. 

What is Assessment? 

100

Includes Constructs, Validity, Reliability

What is Psychometrics?

100

An assessment that requires assessors to directly view and record behaviors themselves 

What is Direct Observation?

100

The promotion for change 

What is Advocacy?

200

The measurement of student's rate of change using a time-series design

What is progress monitoring? 

200

Measuring the students rate of change 

What is progress monitoring?
200

A test performance evaluation in which it is compared to a larger group or sample

What is a Norm-Referenced Comparison?

200

The appreciation of difference in language, values, customs, and experiences through the implementation of practices that are sensitive to these differences

What is Cultural Responsiveness?

300

Behaviors that occur subsequently to a target behavior

What are consequences? 

300

The collection and use of information to monitor students' progress over the course of intervention

What is Formative Assessment?

300

An assessment technique that includes a standardized format and explicit guidelines on how responses are to be scored and followed up

What is a Structured Diagnostic Interview?

300

The acknowledgment of the effects that social factors have on behavior and achievement, including the potentially strong influence of the classroom environment.

What is Sociocultural Consciousness?