Early Assessment
Lesson Planning
Formative and Summative
Tests and Grading
Technology
100
Watching and listening to students carry out specific activities or respond to given situations.
What is Observation?
100
Used to define the knowledge and skills students are expected to develop in a given subject area and grade level.
What are content standards?
100
A situation in which assessment information produces results that give one group an advantage or disadvantage compared to other groups because of problems in the content, procedures, or interpretations of the assessment information.
What is bias?
100
Symbol or number used by teachers to represent a student's achievement in a subject area.
What is a grade?
100
An electronic resource designed to increase efficiency, determine term and course grades, and assist in helping teachers and students keep track of their performance in the classroom.
What are electronic grade books?
200
Inability to make a fair and objective assessment of another person because of interfering prior knowledge, first impressions, or stereotypes.
What is prejudgment?
200
Statements that describe a student accomplishment that will result from instruction- specifically, the behavior the student will learn to perform and the content on which it will be performed.
What are educational objectives?
200
A test item to which the student responds by writing or constructing his or her own answer; short-answer, completion, and essay.
What is a supply item?
200
A group of subtests, each assessing a different subject area but all "normed" on the same sample; designed to be administered to the same group of test takers.
What is test battery?
200
A well-constructed, digital questionnaire which is an efficient tool for collecting information about students' backgrounds, prior experiences, and interests.
What is an electronic survey?
300
The process in which teachers form perceptions about student characteristics and treat students as if the perceptions are correct, and students respond as if they actually have the characteristics, even though they might not have originally had them; an expectation becomes a reality.
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
300
A special education plan developed for a student after extensive assessment of the student's special education needs.
What is an Individual Education Plan (IEP)?
300
The extent to which a teacher can handle different noise levels, activities, and student behavior.
What are levels of tolerance?
300
A standardized test score that describes student performance on a nine-point scale. Scores of 1, 2 and 3 are often interpreted as being below average; 4, 5 and 6 as being average; 7, 8, and 9 as above average.
What is stanine?
300
Storing work samples in a digital format which contains a wide range of material including essays, recording of audio performances such as a student reading, videos of presentations or performances, photographs taken of projects, etc... which eliminates the need for physical folders.
What is an electronic portfolio?
400
The extent to which an assessment consistently assesses whatever it is assessing; if an assessment is dependable, it will yield the same or nearly the same information on retesting.
What is reliability?
400
The organization of six cognitive processes with each successive level representing a more complex type.
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
400
A question that has more than one acceptable answer.
What is a divergent question?
400
A set of scores that describe how a national sample of students who are "representative" of the general population perform on a test.
What are test norms?
400
A strategy that allows teachers to quickly collect assessment information from all students by posing questions and presenting students with answer choices. Students then respond by using a set of small, hand-held devices which communicate wirelessly with software running on a teacher's computer.
What are electronic polling tools?
500
The extent to which assessment information is appropriate for making the desired decision about students, instruction, or classroom climate; the degree to which assessment information permits correct interpretations of the desired kind; the most important characteristic of assessment information.
What is validity?
500
A science discovery lesson plan which incorporates the following components: engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate.
What is the 5E Model?
500
Strategies or techniques in instruction to meet varied student needs and disabilities.
What are accomodations?
500
Determining the quality of a student's performance by comparing it to pre-established standards of mastery.
What is criterion-referenced grading?
500
A feature present in Microsoft Word allowing a teacher to create a list of commonly used comments which streamlines grading and provides quick, formative feedback to students about their writing.
What is Auto Text?