EDUC 345 Chp. 15

Accountable

• Making teachers and schools responsible for student learning, usually by monitoring learning with high-stakes tests.
• Typical score for a group of scores.
• Wrong answers offered as choices in a multiple-choice item.

Assessment

• Procedures used to obtain information about student performance.
• A collection of the student's work in an area, showing growth, self-reflection, and achievement.
• Whole number scores from 1 to 9, each representing a wide range of raw scores.

Assessment Bias

• Qualities of an assessment instrument that offend or unfairly penalize a group of students because of the students' gender, SES, race, ethnicity, etc.
• A form of testing in which students choose the correct response from a set of possible responses provided by the teacher or the test developer instead of creating their own response. Multiple choice and true-false tests are common examples of selected response testing.
• Ungraded testing used before or during instruction to aid in planning and diagnosis.

Authentic Assessments

• Ungraded (formative) assessments that gather information from multiple sources to help teachers make decisions.

• A performance test or demonstration of learning that is public and usually takes and extended time to prepare.

• Assessment procedures that test skills and abilities as they would be applied in real-life situations.

Central Tendency

• Typical score for a group of scores.
• An evaluation expressed in quantitative (number) terms.
• Ungraded (formative) assessments that gather information from multiple sources to help teachers make decisions.

Classroom Assessments

• Any form of assessment that requires students to carry out an activity or produce a product in order to demonstrate learning.

• Classroom assessments are selected and created by teachers and can take many different forms—unit tests, essays, portfolios, projects, performances, oral presentations, etc.

• The score the student would get if the measurement were completely accurate and error-free.

Confidence Interval

• Arithmetical average.

• Range of scores within which an individual's particular score is likely to fall.

• The question part of a multiple-choice item.

Criterion-Referenced Grading

• The most commonly occurring distribution, in which scores are distributed evenly around the mean.

• Assessment of students' achievement in relation to one another

• Assessment of each student's mastery of course objectives.

Criterion-Referenced Testing

• Tests give, usually nationwide, under uniform conditions and scored according to uniform procedures.

• Assessment of students' achievement in relation to one another.

• Testing in which scores are compared to a set performance standard.

Distractors

• Wrong answers offered as choices in a multiple-choice item.
• Assessment procedures that test skills and abilities as they would be applied in real-life situations.
• Testing that follows instruction and assesses achievement.