Responses that require students to select the correct answer
What is selected response?
100
Used to determine student's struggle and supports student's learning of difficult content
What is a diagnostic assessment?
100
A classification system that combines levels of knowledge and cognitive processing, used by teachers to align content and assessments with standards
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
100
This act provided millions of dollars for math and science programs in US public schools after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I
What is the National Defense of Education Act?
100
Using or constructing test items that include references to gender, religion, race or social class
What is testing bias?
200
Requires the student to come up with their own answers, to remember and write the reply
What is supply response?
200
Used to assign grades based on certified mastery
What is a summative assessment?
200
The dimensions that include 4 levels - factual, conceptual, procedural and meta-cognitive - ranging from concrete to abstract
What is the Knowledge dimension of Bloom's Taxonomy?
200
This act established the requirement for teaching to and assessing high standards in all public schools.
What is Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
200
An annual standardized test used to estimate growth based on tested knowledge and skills
What is year-end assessment?
300
Performance assessment that has all students answering the same prompt or item
What is restricted response/performance?
300
Used to determine student's understanding of content taught and to determine teacher's effectiveness
What is a formative assessment?
300
The dimension that contains six levels of learning based on how people learn, remember, process and demonstrate understanding - remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate and create
What is Cognitive dimension of Bloom's Taxonomy?
300
This act stressed high-stakes testing and accountability; sanctions were imposed on schools that did not make AYP
What is No Child Left Behind?
300
An on-going process that tracks student progress and evaluates teacher effectiveness
What is progress monitoring?
400
Performance assessment that allows students some choice in the way that they reply to the task or item
What is extended response/performance?
400
Used to determine students' readiness for new instruction and/or to determine degree of students' existing knowledge
What is a placement assessment?
400
Remember and Understand
What are the lower levels of Bloom's Taxonomy?
400
This act moved students with IEPs into general education classrooms
What is the Individual with Disabilities Education Act?
400
A set of qualities used in judging a performance, a product or an assessment instrument
What are criteria?
500
The type response that is given to items that assess the highest level of Bloom's Taxonomy
What is a constructed response?
500
An assessment that is designed for general populations, often used to measure end of year outcomes
What is a formal assessment?
500
Create
What is highest level of cognitive dimension on Bloom's Taxonomy?
500
This act aimed to reduce the emphasis on high-stakes testing, still required accountability
What is the Every Student Succeeds Act?
500
A set of scoring guidelines that describes different levels of performance used to judge a performance or product