Critiquing a students performance on an assessment task
What is evaluating?
100
The "score" given on any single test or performance.
What is mark?
100
Evaluation at the conclusion of a unit or units of instruction or an activity or plan to determine or judge student skills and knowledge or effectiveness of a plan or activity. A culminating assessment, which gives information on students' mastery of content, knowledge, or skills.
Any task or tool designed to examine essential learning beyond a single classroom.
What is common assessment?
200
Refers to assessments are external to the school or classroom.
What is external assessment?
200
A dynamic process involving any tool which delivers learning information DURING the instructional process and rooted in the cycle of feedback to the learning. (Includes formative assessment, checking for understanding, feedback, etc.)
What is on-going assessment?
200
A skill, disposition, or knowledge learning target that is shared between multiple disciplines or subject matters. (E.g., research skills, global minded).
What are trans-disciplinary skills?
200
Reading assessment given to guide instruction at SAS.
What is the DRA?
200
Assessment of students' success in meeting stated objectives, learning outcomes, standards or expectations.
What is criterion referenced?
300
IB, AP, IGCSE, SAT, PSAT, ITBS, ERB, PISA, MAP, etc.
What are examples of standardized assessments.
300
The consistency with which an assessment strategy measures what it is meant to measure.
What is reliability?
300
The degree to which an assessment strategy measures what it is intended to measure.
What is validity?
300
Writing scoring process to show student development in different areas.
What is 6 traits rubric?
300
Assessment usually carried out prior to instruction that is designed to determine a student's attitude, skills, or knowledge to identify specific student needs.
What is diagnostic?
400
Observations which allow one to determine the degree to which students know or are able to do o given learning task, and which identifies the part of the task that the student does not know or is unable to do.
What is formative assessment?
400
The process of communicating learners' progress toward the learning target(s) to a diverse group including, the teacher, the student, parents, administrators, other schools.
What is reporting?
400
The possession of knowledge about the basic principles of sound assessment practice, including terminology, the development and use of assessment methodologies and techniques, familiarity with standards of quality in assessment.
What is assessment literacy?
400
Standardized test from Iowa.
What is the ITBS (Iowa Test of Basic Skills)?
400
THe process of ensuring a clear progression of skills, knowledge, and concepts in developmentally-appropriate methods as students progress from grade to grade.
What is curriculum alignment?
500
Statements that describe significant and essential learning that learners will achieve and can reliably demonstrate at the end of a learning period
What are learning outcomes or learning targets?
500
Specific sets of criteria that clearly define for both student and teacher what the range of acceptable and unacceptable performance looks like. Criteria define descriptors of ability at each level of performance and assign values to each level. Levels referred to are proficiency levels which describe a continuum from excellent to unacceptable.
What is rubric?
500
A process of learning feedback, designed to modify instruction, communicate the attainment of the learning target and enhance learning.
What is assessment?
500
Developmental Reading Assessment
What is the DRA?
500
The degree to which a curriculum's scope and sequence matches assessment or evaluation measures, thus ensuring that teachers will use successful completion of the assessment as a goal of classroom instruction.