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Types of Standardized Tests
Reporting Results
Using Results
Steps in Design
Advantage or Disadvantage
100
Current level of knowledge or skill in a certain area.
What is ability?
100
Scores expressed in terms of grade levels and the number of months that school has been in session
What is grade equivalent?
100
To determine the status of a newborn at 1 and 5 minutes after birth
What is the Apgar scale?
100
Determination of how test items will be presented and how test takers will respond
What is test format?
100
Precise administration procedures
What is uniformity in test admin./advantage?
200
The potential to learn or develop proficiency in some area.
What is aptitude?
200
A division of the normal population into 9 groups
What is stanines?
200
Used to detect indicators that a child might have a developmental problem
What is a screening test?
200
A defined reason for the test
What is specifying a purpose for the test?
200
Scores are numerical
What is quantifiable scores/advantage?
300
Tests overall intellectual functioning.
What is an intelligence test.
300
A point on the normal curve below which a percentage of test scores is distributed
What is percentiles?
300
Can be used to help parents understand their infant's signals and skills
What is the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS)?
300
Test performances can be compared with the performance of a reference group
What is standardizing the test?
300
Tests are more rigorous in some states than others
What is limitations of design for NCLB/disadvantage?
400
Measures how a person is predisposed to to think about an object, event, situation, person or group of people
What is an attitude measure?
400
A simple way to report how many standard deviations a persons raw score is above or below the mean
What is Z scores and T scores?
400
Used to measure achievement in preschool skills and effectiveness of the head Start Program
What is the National Reporting System (NRS)?
400
Alternative forms with the same difficulty and content
What is equivalent forms?
400
instruction is based only on what's tested
What is effects on curriculum and instruction/disadvantage?
500
Measures a person's tendency to behave in a particular way
What is a personality test?
500
The normal curve is divided into 8 equal sections called
What is standard deviations?
500
Used to detect delays and mental retardation
What is the Stanford-Binet intelligence Scale?
500
Preparation or preliminary test forms to be tried out with students
What is the development of experimental test forms?
500
Students knowledge is sampled on a limited number of questions
What is measurement limitations/disadvantage?