Forms of Assessments
Ongoing checks during learning that give feedback to learners and guide the teacher's next steps. Observation, quizzes, individual verbal check-ins, writing samples, using whiteboards to display answers and hold up for teacher to see, and hand signals (i.e. thumbs up or down), are examples of this type of assessment.
What are formative assessments?
This style of teaching and lessons is structured around big ideas not small bits of information.
What is constructivism?
Over-arching, long-term objectives.
What are long-term goals?
What is a discrepancy formula?
This characteristic refers to the consistency, stability, and dependability of test or measurement scores across time, tasks, and evaluators. AN assessment that produces the same or very similar results under equivalent conditions is said to demonstrate _______.
What is reliability?
Evaluation of what has been learned at the end of a unit, term, or course, usually graded or reported.
What are summative assessments?
A type of instruction whereby students are guided through the learning process with clear statements about the purpose and rationale for learning the new skill, clear explanations and demonstrations and supported practice with feedback.
What is explicit instruction?
"Independently; in the correct order; with correct punctuation of periods, questions marks, commas are examples of ____________ goals and objectives.
What are measurable goals and objectives?
a multi-tiered approach to instructional delivery designed to improve academic and behavioral outcomes, particularly for students who are thought to be at risk of reading or other academic or behavioral difficulties.
What is RTI - response to intervention?
This federal act guarantees the civil rights of all individuals labeled with disabilities from birth to age 21. It makes available a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children. It governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education, and related services to eligible infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities.
What is IDEIA 2004?
These compare a learner's performance with that of a defined norm group, using percentiles, stanines, or standard scores. IQ tests, SATs, ACTs are examples of this type of assessment.
What are normative assessments?
This process requires sequencing skills so that they build on each other; providing demonstrations and completed models of problems; providing the needed support that helps bridge the gap between current abilities and the instructional goal.
What is scaffolding?
Comprehend, enjoy, feel, increase (from what to what?), know, listen, learn, manipulate (how?), participate, realize, understand are examples of __________ goals.
What are non-measurable goals?
"Multiple means of representation access, engagement, and expression" are characteristics of this practice.
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?
Student, parent(s), general education and special education teachers, guidance counselor, relevant administrators, psychologist.
Who are members of an IEP team?
Uses material from the curriculum actually being taught, often as brief, frequent, standardized probes, to monitor progress toward goals.
What are curriculum-based assessments?
A teacher withholds his thoughts intentionally to
challenge students to develop their own hypotheses.
What is a constructivist teaching strategy?
"To increase positive social interaction with classmates" an example of what type of behavioral objective.
What is a long term goal?
Adaptations (changes) in materials or procedures that provide access to instruction and assessments for students labeled with disabilities and do not alter what is being taught. The goals and objectives remain the same.
What are accommodations?
This type of motivation drives behaviors through external rewards such as money, praise, or grades. Unlike intrinsic motivation, which is fueled by personal satisfaction, extrinsic motivation relies on outside incentives to initiate action.
What is exrinsic motivation?
An evaluation method that measures a student's performance against a fixed set of predetermined learning standards, criteria, or performance descriptors, rather than comparing them to other students. [1, 2]
What are criterion-referenced assessments?
This describes the relationship between a general principle and specific outcomes or behaviors. They are generally understood through IF-THEN statements.
What is a rule?
"The student will respond orally to another student when he is asked to play a game" is an example of what type of behavioral objective?
What is a short-term objective?
Through ________ you change what a student is expected to learn and show. These will alter the instruction level, the content of the course and the performance criteria. They are made for students labeled with disabilities who are unable to comprehend all of the content.
What are modifications?
When an assessment measures what it claims to measure it is said to have _____.
What is validity?
Has fixed criteria, rubrics, or learning objectives. Common Examples include: Classroom unit tests, AP exams, driver's license tests, state assessments
What is a criterion-referenced assessment?
When teaching rules, it is always wise to illustrate the rule by using these two things in order to clarify the boundaries of the rules.
What are examples and non-examples?
These describe conditions under which measurable, observable behavior will occur and identify the criteria that indicate mastery.
What are behavioral objectives?
This a student-centered teaching approach where teachers tailor their methods, materials, and expectations to meet diverse learner needs while maintaining the core learning goals.
What is differentiated instruction?
This type of motivation is the internal drive to engage in an activity simply for its own sake, personal enjoyment, or inherent satisfaction rather than for external rewards or pressures.
What is intrinsic motivation?
This is a brief, assessment administered to all students 1 to 3 times per year (typically in the fall, winter, and spring) to evaluate academic, behavioral, or social-emotional health; to quickly identify students who perform below grade-level expectations or show early warning signs of falling behind.
What is universal screening?
In "Response to Intervention" the levels of whole class instruction as well as (as needed) supplemental levels of small group and individual instruction are referred to as_____.
What are tiers one, two, and three?
The systematic process of breaking down a complex activity, goal, or job into smaller, discrete, and measurable steps
What is a task analysis?
This is a written plan created for a student with a disability who, because of that disability, needs specially designed instruction to access the general education curriculum. It is mandated by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA),
What is an Individualized Education Plan (IEP)?
An assessment method used to regularly evaluate student learning, track academic or behavioral growth, and measure how well a student responds to instructional interventions.
What is progress monitoring?