Exams
Text Complexity
Levels of difficulty in reading and understanding a text based a series of factors
Observation
Watching and recording student's behaviors, interactions, and responses during reading and literacy activities in an educational setting.
Authentic assensement
Assesment methods such as Observation, interviews, records student work. This shows a students progress over time
Raw scores
The number of items answered correctly a test
Holistic rubric
when there are different levels on the rubric sheets
Stanine Score
Are standardized 1-9 scores
Grade- equivalent scores
A way to express a student's performance on a reading or literacy assessment in terms of the grade level at which their performance is typical.
Rubrics & Self Assessments
An Assessment tool that provides a list of criteria, which corresponds to a particular grade or point total
Readability
Represents the difficulty of a text
Analytic rubric
Standardized
Content area reading inventory (CARI)
Is assessment took and instructional resource used in the field of content literacy. Designed to evaluated student's reading and comprehension skills specifially within the context of content-area subjects
Percentile Score
The relative standing of a student at a particular grade level
High-strakes testing
Formal Assessments, the results of which are tied to serious consequences such as grade level retention
Weighted rubric
when certain requirement are graded heavier then others
Portfolios
This is when have a large arrays of items collected over the course of the class and having them all in one spot to grade a student
Checklists
Are tools used by educators to systematically monitor and assess various aspects of students' reading and comprehension skills.
Norms
Scores that are extrapolated from raw scores so that comparison can be made among individuals or groups
Triangulation
The process of collecting multiple means of data on students performance
Check offs
Lexile levels
Is widely used measure of text complexity and readers, often employed in the contect of content literacy and education
Accountability
refers to the responsibility and expectations placed on educational institutions.
Validity
Tells the teacher whether the test measures what it purports to test
Reliability
The consistency of a students test scores
when the students doesn't receive a significant score towards their grade. It is there to let the students see their strong and weak points.