General Terms
"The gathering of evidence of student growth."
What is assessment?
Formative assessment
What is an assessment type used to see learner development, the results of which will be used by a teacher to inform planning?
Ordinal
What are data that have a meaningful order but no particular standard value between numbers and no meaningful zero?
Measures of central tendency
What are measures that show the mid-point of a data set, including the mean, median, and mode?
A pie chart
What is a chart that displays distribution and may be used to compare parts to a whole?
Norm-referenced
What is a measure based on learners' growth/success in relation to their peers' growth/succcess?
Portfolios
What is a collection of student works around specific goals or themes that broadly and holistically represents a learner's growth?
Nominal/catagorical
What are data that are names or categories and do not have intrinsic quantitative values?
Measures that show the overall distribution of data across a given sample, including range, variance, interquartile range, and standard deviation
What are measures of variability or spread?
These graphs primarily show relationships
What are scatter plots?
"Using the evidence from assessment to make judgments on students' progress or performance"
What is evaluation?
An assessment type completed at the end of a learning cycle to determine the overall level of learner growth or success
What is a summative assessment?
Data that have a meaningful order, specific standardized values between numbers, and a meaningful zero?
What are intervalic data?
Two statistical techniques to investigate the interrelatedness of data points
What are t-tests and regressions?
Graphs that primarily show distribution, but can also be used to compare.
What are bar graphs?
A measure based on designed criteria tied to standards and learning goals
What is criterion-referenced assessment?
Activities learners take part in to generate assessable data for the teacher. Examples might include a composition with reflection, a worksheet, a test, or a performance assessment.
What are assessment tasks (or evidences)?
Data in the form of counts or numbers where each data set has a unique numerical value
What is quantitative data?
A graph used to demonstrate change over time
What is a line graph?
Understanding by Design
What is a backwards-design process with three steps:
1. Identify desired results/goals
2. determine acceptable evidence
3. plan learning experiences and instruction accordingly?
Authentic assessment
What is a type of assessment that requires learners to apply their knowledge through doing, building, or performing the tasks?
Data that describe qualities or characteristics without being numeric?
Correlation
1. What does not equal causation?
2. What is a specific statistical measure, though the term is often used informally to mean "relationship"?
A graph type that can be used to show distribution and, when showing multiple cases, can be used to compare
What are box plots?