Terms & Definitions
Test that are commercially prepared for nationwide use and are designed to provide accurate information on students performance relative to others within their same age group.
What are Standardized Tests
Standardized test scores are meaningful in evaluation only if you use them along with this information.
What is information such as the students' actual performance in school and in other contexts
This term means teachers are responsible for how well their students learn.
What is teacher accountability
Extended time can raise scores for this group of students.
Who are all students?
Learning in a native language and taking bilingual tests
What are ESL student accommodations?
Standards that are derived from the test scores of a sample of people who are similar to those who will take the test and that can be used to interpret scores of future test takers.
What are Norms?
A problem with these tests is that they are not tied to the particular curriculum and instructional strategies used in the classroom; therefore, they do not adequately represent the content that has been taught.
___ ___ are frequently used in decisions about hiring, firing, promotion, and transfer of principals and superintendents, and sometimes teachers.
What are test scores
Extended time and reading out loud, as opposed to larger font.
What are controversial accomodations?
Supports that give students equal access to testing while keeping the learning expectations the same
What are accommodations?
The score designated as the minimum necessary to demonstrate mastery of a subject
What is a Cutoff Score?
Shifting definitions of ________ can complicate the interpretation of scores
What are Grade-Level Expectations?
Standards developed by the National Governor's Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers with encourage ment from the Obama Administration. What are these standards called?
What is Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
Barriers students with disabilities may face
What are processing differences, reading speed differences, and sensory/motor difficulties?
Some schools choose to do this, preferring to ignore the needs of ESL students in hopes to appear more impressive.
What is excusing ESL students from taking tests?
This test is designed to predict the ability of students to learn or to perform particular types of tasks, rather than to measure how much the students have already learned.
What is an Aptitude Test
The three classes of evidence of validity that are of most concern to test users.
What is Content, Criterion, and Consequential Evidence.
What is one of the biggest critiques about accountability assessments?
What is tempts schools to only teach what is tested
Policymakers must carefully decide when accommodations can be used to prevent this problem.
What is biased test scores?
English tests typically measure this, rather than content knowledge.
What is English language proficiency?
A test given by the U.S. Department of Education to a selection of students in all states that is used to measure growth in reading, math, science, and writing.
What is The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
The theoretical range that good standardized achievement test shoul fall within.
What is 0.90 to 1
In December 2015, the U.S. Congress passed an update of the main law that governs the federal role in education. What is the name of this update?
What is the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
The argument that policy change must occur at the system level (not just individual schools) to ensure all students are given access to fair testing
What is the Macrosystemic argument?
The central purpose of ESL testing accommodations is to remove language barriers without changing this fundamental principle of standardized testing.
What is test validity?