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Ways to Assess Students' Performance
Using Portfolios
Standardized Tests
High-Stakes Testing & Accountability
Student Diversity & Confidentiality and Communication
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The simple sum of correct answers on an assessment
What is a raw score
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A collection of student's work (artifacts) over a period of time
What is a portfolio
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Achievement Tests, Intelligent Tests, General Scholastic Aptitude Tests, Specific Aptitude and Ability Tests, School Readiness Tests....
What are the types of Standardized Tests
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In 2001, the United States passed this legislation, mandating regular assessments of basic skills.
What is NCLB (No Child Left Behind Act)
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An assessment instrument has this if any of its items either offend or unfairly penalize some students on the basis of their ethnicity, gender, or socialeconomic status
What is cultural bias
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This score identifies whether or not students have learned specific material Hint: EPS 324 Learning Check-ups, Rubics, and AEPA exams
What is a Criterion-Referenced Score
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* Show growth over time. * Demonstrate student's performance on real-world, authentic assessment tasks. * Allow the student to self-monitor and self-evaluate their learning
What are the benefits of portfolios
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Tests designed to predict future ability to succeed in a particular content domain
What are Specific Aptitude Tests
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Arizona uses this single-assessment to make major decisions about students' learning, teachers' instructional techniques, and overall school's performance
What is the Aims test or What are High-Stakes Testing
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When students from stereo-typically low-achieving groups perform more poorly on classroom assessments simply because they are aware that their group traditionally does poorly on such assessments
What is a sterio-type threat
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Test scores that indicate the percentage of peers in the norm group Example: Sam scored in the 25th percentile. His score equals or exceeds 25 out of 100 students
What is percentile rank
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* Writing Samples * Student constructed artwork and/or inventions * Pictures * Reflections
What are the types of artifacts that are included in a portfolio
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Tests designed to assess cognitive skills that are important for success in Kindergarten and/or 1st grade
What are School Readines Tests
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*The primary focus of high-stakes testing is on reading, math, and science. *Teachers "teach to the test". *High-stakes tests do not assess "higher-level" thinking skills. *School funding, salary increases, and other incentives are based on overall school performance.
What are some problems with High-Stakes testing
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* Translate test into students' native language * Administer test one-on-one * Eliminate time limits for test completion * Use alternative assessment methods (portfolios) *Exclude students' test scores when computing over-all achievement averages of a school
What are ways in which we can advocate for English Language Learners in High-Stakes situations
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Test scores matching the student's performance with the average performance of students in the same grade, or same age
What is grade-equivalent & age equivalent scores
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Planning, collection, selection, reflection, projection, and presentation are.....
What are the steps in helping students construct portfolios
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This type of test is designed to assess a general "capacity" to learn
What is a Scholastic Aptitude Test
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* Support, rather than punish failing schools * Advocate for a "focus" on indivudal students' progress * Educators should seek alternative assessments * Inform/Educate the public of pros and cons
What are some possible solutions with High-Stakes testing
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Pertaining to the presentation of assessments, the teacher should: * Modify presentation format (present test in Braille format) * Modify response format (dictating answers verbally) * Allow for extra time to complete * Offer frequent breaks * Modify assessment setting (small groups, one-on-one)
What are ways to accomodate students with special needs
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In assessment, data regarding the typical performance of various groups of students on a standardized test or other norm-referenced measure
What is norms
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Working Portfolios Developmental Portfolios Course Portfolios Best-Work Portfolios
What are the "types of portfolios"
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* Choose a test with high validity for your particular purpose * Make sure the test's norm group is relevant to your own population * Take students' age and development into account
What are the guidelines for choosing and using a Standardized Test
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Another way of saying that teachers and school personnel have an obligation to accept responsibility for students' performance on high-stakes assessments
What is accountability
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This legislation was passed in 1974 giving students and parents access to school records while at the same time limiting other people's access to those records
What is FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)