7610 Key Concepts 1 - 3

Evaluation of accomplishment or the degree of learning that has taken place, usually with regard to an academic area

• Alternate Forms Reliability

• Case Study

• Achievement Test

• Mental Measurement Yearbook Review

An estimate of the extent to which item sampling and other errors have affected scores on two versions of the same test; contrast with parallel-forms reliability

• Alternate Forms Reliability

• Test Retest Reliability

• Internal Consistency

• Interscorer Reliability

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) provides

• balanced information concerning educational assessment

• a wealth of resources and news about tests, testing, and assessment

• abstracts of articles, original articles, and links to other useful websites

• resources that encourage responsible test use

Behavioral Observations

• Monitoring the actions of others or oneself by visual or electronic means while recording quantitative and/or qualitative information regarding those actions

• Are used for diagnostic or related purposes

• are used for fun

• used to design intervention or to measure the outcome of an intervention

A report or illustrative account concerning a single person or an event

• Achievement Test

• Criterion Referenced Testing

• Norm Referenced Testing

• Case Study

The socially transmitted behavior patterns, beliefs, and products of work of a particular population, community, or group of people

• Homogeneity

• Achievement

• Culture

• Criterion Referenced Testing

Ability tests developed on Whites could not lawfully be used to track Black students in the school system

• Jaffee v. Redmond

• Hobson v. Hanson

• I'm not sure

• Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California

Answer explanation

Hobson v. Hanson

To do so would lead to resegregation of schools.

Began to experiment with intelligence testing & created a test of his own in 1939. This new test, now referred to as the Wechsler-Bellevue 1 (W-B 1), borrowed from existing tests in format though not in content

• Galton

• Binet

• Vygotsky

• Wechsler

graph with vertical lines drawn at the true limits of each test score (or class interval), forming a series of contiguous rectangles

• Scatterplot

• Histogram

• Bell Curve

• Bar chart

Answer explanation

The socially transmitted behavior patterns, beliefs, and products of work of a particular population, community, or group of people is known as