Testing
Tests on which important decisions are made about students' educational programs and teacher effectiveness based on their results
What is high stakes testing?
Conducting ongoing assessments to examine and document the impact of your teaching practices on student learning and the effectiveness of your teaching practices and instructional program.
What is progress monitoring?
Examples of classroom based assessments to administer at the beginning of lessons to identify existing knowledge, obtain a baseline, and identify grouping combinations for instruction
What are entrance slips, warm up activities, KWL, graphic organizers, anticipation guides, and quick writes?
This grading system involves giving numerical or letter grades to compare students using the same academic standards.
What are norm referenced grading systems?
Small heterogenous groups of students who work collaboratively to share their reactions to and discuss various aspects of books that all group members have decided to read.
What are literature circles?
Variations in testing environment, administration, technology and procedures
What are testing accomodations?
A progress monitoring strategy that provides individualized, brief, direct, and repeated measures of students' proficiency and progress across the curriculum.
What is curriculum based assessment?
Examples include observations, anecdotal records, active responding systems, educational games, self-reflection/assessment of learning, think-aloud and dynamic assessment.
What are classroom based assessments to use during lessons?
A grading system that reports on student mastery within the curriculum as opposed to comparing students based on their numerical grades.
What is criterion-referenced grading?
These are outlines of the ways stories are organized, identifying a reading selection's main characters, story lines, conflicts, and ending.
What are story grammars?
Changes in the way students respond to test items or respond to test items
What are respond mode testing accommodations?
Taking measures of student performance on an assessment probe prior to instruction which allows for assessment of student learning and teaching effectiveness.
What is a baseline?
Examples include exit slips, learning journals or logs, self-evaluation, performance assessment, and portfolio assessment.
What are classroom based assessments to use at the end of lessons?
A criterion referenced grading system based on student mastery on a range of assessments measuring learning objectives aligned to content curricular standards.
What is standards based grading?
A way of teaching new vocabulary words which includes creating a visual that guides students on comparing vocabulary words to determine the ways in which they are similar and different.
What is a semantic feature analysis?
Changes made to minimize the effects of a students' language proficiency on their test performance.
What is linguistically based testing accommodations?
Two types of curriculum based assessments: the first is based on norms related to growth rates for different grade levels, the second is created by teachers and is administered more informally across the curriculum to monitor student progress in learning skills.
What are Curriculum based measurement and mastery measurement
These are used in portfolio assessments. They are brief descriptions that identify the item, provide the context in which it was produced, and reflect on why it was selected.
What are caption statements?
Descriptive grading and progressive improvement grading are examples of this type of grading system that grade all students based on their progress in comparison with their past performance.
What are self-referenced grading systems?
One type of peer based instructional system in which students work with peers in partner reading, paragraph shrinking and prediction relay.
What are peer assisted learning strategies?
Students work collaboratively on open-ended tasks that have non-routine solutions.
What is cooperative group testing?
This is what the vertical and horizontal axes on a curriculum based assessment graph represent.
What are student performance on the school related task (vertical), the days on which the assessment probe was given (horizontal).
An assessment tool that assesses process, performance and progress by delineating the various categories associated with assessment tasks and learning activities, the different levels of performance, and the indicators describing each level.
What are instructional rubrics?
This grading system uses individualized goals, differentiation techniques, and performance criteria on students' IEP to serve as the reference point for judging student progress and assigning grades.
What is an IEP grading system?
This is an explicit instructional model for teaching students to use a variety of learning strategies and related acronyms designed to enhance their written expression and self-regulation skills and attitudes across a range of genres.
What is SRSD (Self-Regulated Strategy Development)?