These assessments are designed to measure "what a person has learned to do."
What is an achievement test?
100
The DC CAS, SAT-9, and SOL are examples of this.
What are standardized tests?
100
These are assessments that provide the teacher with a high degree of flexibility in the administration, scoring, and timing of the test.
What is an informal assessment?
100
This is the stage in which ELLs have fully acquired the English language.
What is advanced fluency?
100
A test developed to assess a student in his or her primary and secondary language, comprised of verbal analogies, oral vocabulary, and picture vocabulary.
What is the BVAT (Bilingual Verbal Abilities Test)?
200
The IQ Test, the SAT, and the GATB are examples of this.
What is an aptitude test?
200
These are tests that group students based on their various levels of achievement.
What are norm reference tests?
200
These are assessments used to document a student's academic and affective behavior that may involve checklists and notes.
What are observational assessments?
200
This stage is often referred to as a silent stage, as the response is usually through gestures or pointing.
What is preproduction?
200
A relatively new assessment developed to assess a student's ability to follow directions, comprehend oral lessons, and interpret oral information.
What is the Listen Up Skills Assessment?
300
This is an assessment that relates closely to real life experiences that allows you to capture learning "in the moment."
What is a performance assessment?
300
This is a test that measures students' performance against a preestablished standard or criterion?
What is a criterion-referenced test?
300
This is an assessment that embraces the notion that students are active learners and should be invested in their own education.
What is a self-assessment?
300
In this stage, there is an increasingly larger vocabulary and the language is "tried out" in parts and pieces.
What is speech emergence?
300
A standardized test used to place students into the appropriate ELL classroom setting.
What is the IPT-O (Idea Oral Proficiency Test)?
400
A survey that measures students' attitudes about learning and school.
What is an affective assessment?
400
These tests are often referred to as "traditional" assessments.
What are formal assessments?
400
This is an assessment that has been longstanding and utilizes the collection of student work.
What is a portfolio?
400
This stage is defined by a well-developed listening vocabulary and fairly solid speaking vocabulary level.
What is intermediate fluency?
400
This assessment directs a student to look at a picture and orally name it.
What is EOWPVT (Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test)?
500
These are end-of-the-year tests that assess an entire unit of study.
What are summative evaluations?
500
These tests have a high degree of validity and reliability.
What are standardized tests?
500
The socio-cultural learning theory of promoting self-regulated learners is based on the work of this theorist.
Who is Vygotsky?
500
In this stage, ELLs feel more comfortable in their new surroundings and start to develop a solid vocabulary and respond verbally.