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Classroom Assessment Strategies
Productive Learning Environment & Instructional Strategies
Summarizing Students' Achievement and Abilities
Social Cognitive Views of Learning
Motivation and Affect
100
Extent to which an assessment actually measures what it is intended to measure and allows appropriate inferences about the characteristic or ability in question.
What is validity?
100
Establishment and maintenance of a classroom environment that's conductive to learning and achievement.
What is classroom management?
100
Extent to which assessment tasks either offend or unfairly penalize some students because of their ethnicity, gender, or socioeconomic status.
What is cultural bias?
100
Process of setting goals for oneself and engaging in behaviors and cognitive processes that lead to goal attainment.
What is self-regulation?
100
Inner state that energizes, directs, and sustains behavior.
What is motivation?
200
Follow up analysis of patterns in students' responses to various items in an assessment.
What is item analysis?
200
Approach to instruction in which the teacher is largely in control of the content and course of the lesson.
What is teacher-directed instruction?
200
Awareness of a negative stereotype about one's own group and accompanying uneasiness that low performance will confirm the stereotype; leads (often unintentionally) to lower-quality performance.
What is stereotype threat?
200
Process of keeping in check or intentionally altering feelings that might lead to counterproductive behavior.
What is emotion regulation?
200
General belief about the extent to which one is a good, capable individual.
What is self-worth?
300
Extent to which an assessment yields consistent information about the knowledge, skills, or characteristics being assessed.
What is reliability?
300
Approach to instruction in which students have considerable control regarding the issues they address and the ways they address them.
What is learner-directed instruction?
300
An obligation of teachers and other school personnel to accept responsibility for students' performance on high-stakes assessments; often mandated by policy makers calling for school reform.
What is accountability?
300
Process of observing and recording one's own behavior.
What is an self-monitoring?
300
General, fairly pervasive belief that one is incapable of accomplishing tasks and has little or no control of the environment.
What is learned helplessness?
400
Extent to which an assessment involves similar content and format and is administered and scored similarly for everyone.
What is standardization?
400
General statements regarding the knowledge and skills that students should gain and the characteristics that their accomplishments should reflect.
What is standards?
400
U.S. legislation passed in 2001 that mandates regular assessments of basic skills to determine whether students are making adequate yearly progress relative to state-determined standards in reading, math, and science.
What is No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)?
400
Process of judging one's own performance or behavior.
What is self-evaluation?
400
Feeling mental discomfort caused by new information that conflicts with current knowledge or beliefs.
What is cognitive dissonance?
500
Extent to which an assessment includes a representative sample of tasks within the content domain being assessed.
What is content validity?
500
Approach to fostering reading and listening comprehension skills in which students take turns asking teacherlike questions of classmates.
What is reciprocal teaching?
500
Practice of using students' performance on a single assessment to make major decisions about students, school personnel, or overall school quality.
What is high-stakes testing?
500
People's beliefs about their ability to be successful when they work together on a task.
What is collective self-efficacy?
500
Situation in which expectations for an outcome either directly or indirectly lead to the expected result.
What is self-fulfilling prophecy?