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Mathematics Assessment
Reading Assessment
Reliability or Validity
Statistics not Sadistics
All Assessment Vocabulary
100
It is the first major subdivision of the K-R under "Total Test."
What are "Areas"
100
In the Woodcock assessments, it is a cluster reflecting the ability of a student to successfully recognize words or letters, e.g., "get the words off the page."
What is Basic reading
100
It is an indication that a test is useful for some specific purpose, provides information that is usable for decision making.
What is validity?
100
The standard deviation
What is the average distance of scores from the mean in a distribution, a statistic that marks off predictable proportions of a normal curve (either OK)
100
It consists of the collection of data to make decisions about students & to develop programs
What is assessment (NOT TESTING)
200
In the K-R, items are gathered first into these.
What are domains.
200
It is measured (assessed) typically via correct words per minute during read-aloud exercises, it is an essential correlate with comprehension.
What is reading fluency?
200
A type of study of a test, the test developer correlates the reading test score of 50 4th-graders with the global teacher rating of the same students' "overall reading efficiency."
What is a predictive (criterion-referenced) validity study?
200
It is the most common form of central tendency; a word that also means "unkind" in other uses.
What is mean?
200
Typically norm referenced, it is a form of assessment where a teacher, student, or parent fills out a questionnaire about behavior and then the assessor later scores it.
What is a behavior checklist?
300
In mathematics assessment, it is the parallel with what we call "miscue analysis" in reading assessment.
What is error analysis?
300
It is a test on the Woodcock batteries that assesses the student's ability to utilize phonics, wherein word recognition is ruled out.
What is Word Attack?
300
A problem with the ruler...the scores are not trustworthy in terms of their measurement properties, accuracy, or stability.
What is reliability?
300
68.26%
What is the proportion of a population lying between -1 and +1 SD of the mean (if the trait is normally distributed)?
300
Used to form confidence intervals around observed scores, it is the average distance of error estimates from a hypothetical true score.
What is the standard error of measurement
400
It is one of the three ways to conduct error analysis in mathematics assessment.
What is either (a) looking completed problems for errors, (b) watching a student complete mathematics problems while they are doing them, or (c) conducting a clinical interview while a student completes math assignments (any will do)?
400
It is a reading level reported via an IRI that best represents Vygotzky's "zone of proximal development." That is, the place where the student's skills "leave off and they need help."
What is the instructional level?
400
In thinking about reliability, it is the metric most associated with the "E" part of the O = T + E statement.
What is the standard error of the mean?
400
It is the proportion of a normally distributed population lying 2 SDs below the mean and down.
What is about 2%?
400
A technical term that means that we are legally obligated to place the student in the most inclusive environment appropriate for him or her.
What is least restrictive environment?
500
It is the technical term in mathematics for what in layman's language might be called, steps to solving something."
What is an algorithm?
500
It is the designation that suggests that a student can read 95% of a sample of words at the X grade level and answer more than half of comprehension questions successfully.
What is the independent reading level (mastery OK)?
500
Two individuals record behavior independently at the same time. Later they see how frequently they agreed.
What is inter-rater reliability?
500
It is produced by adding and subtracting one standard error of measurement from an observed score. 68 becomes "65 to 71" instead.
What is a 68% confidence interval?
500
A legal term, it means (in terms of assessment) that districts must have a good plan in place to screen young children for possible disabilities.
What is child find?