To define a construct of interest in terms of a process, action, or operations needed to determine its existence, duration, and quantity.
What is operational definition?
100
The 50th percentile ranking is also known as...
What is the median?
100
This type of a test is used when you want to compare a score of one individual to the scores of a group of students who took the test.
What is a norm-referenced test?
100
The “S-E” of NSSE, BCSSE, FSSE, LSSE, but probably not the Loch Ness Monster, Nessie, stands for this.
What is “Student Engagement”?
100
The degree of access others have to information given voluntarily from one person to the next.
What is confidentiality?
200
Just like your high school yearbook, this resource will remind you of different opinions and evaluations that people have about numerous assessments.
What is the Mental Measurement Yearbook?
200
The most appropriate measure to use for nominal data.
What is mode?
200
This type of validity evidence seeks to determine whether scores on a test act as they are expected to by theory.
What is construct-related validity evidence?
200
If a candle could feel, it may feel emotionally and physically exhausted, as well as a reduced sense of accomplishment and devaluation of staying lit for too long. Eventually, it would be considered this.
What is “Burnout”?
200
For these students, it can be difficult to distinguish between not knowing the content versus not understanding the question.
Who are English Language Learners?
300
If you were hoping to join the military in the 1917s, you’d be subject to these...
What are the Army Alpha and Army Beta tests?
300
How embarrassing: My right tail is shorter than my left!
What is a negative skew?
300
A point on a score scale at and above which test-takers are classified in one way and below which they are classified in a different way.
What is a cut score?
300
At first hearing, you may think the abbreviation SAT would only bring fear to the hearts of high school students, but this SAT is made for everyone from Kindergarten through 12th grade.
What is “The Stanford Achievement Test”?
300
Identification & referral, determining eligibility, and program planning.
What are aspects of special education assessment?
400
Behavioral observation and portfolios
What are types of test items?
400
We are measures of variability that are almost identical in appearance. You can consider us fraternal twins distinguished by a root.
What are standard deviation and variance?
400
The standard deviation of criterion scores (Y) for people who got the same score on predictor (X).
What is standard error of estimate?
400
When interpreting the scores from the BASC 3, the Behavior Assessment System for Children, Third Edition, a score between 60-69 on the clinical scales is considered within the “at-risk” range, while these scores are considered within the “at-risk” range on the adaptive scales.
What are “The scores between 31 and 40”?
400
A description of educational goals and specific services developed for an individual child with special needs, which should be connected to the general education curriculum and entail parental involvement in evaluation and placement decisions.
What is an Individualized Education Program (IEP)?
500
Identify the construct of interest, determine action to isolate that construct, and establish a set of procedures for translating our observations into quantitative statements of amount or degree.
What are the three steps in measurement process?
500
I am an index of variability in observed Y around the predicted Y given X.
What is standard error of estimate?
500
A source of measurement error associated with a limited sample of behavior.
What is content sampling error?
500
In addition to ambiguous stimuli, this form of measurement, in which time is of the essence, is another method of achieving implicit measurement.
What is “Rapid Response Measurement”?
500
This type of assessment focuses on specific skills and objectives of instruction and is frequently conducted on a regular and systematic basis across time to identify trends, including possible improvements in skills.