Chapter 3 vocabulary (RED318)

The process of gathering data about an area of learning through tests, observations, work samples, and other means.

• Assessment

• Formative assessment

• Grade-equivalent score

• Raw score

Testing that seeks to determine how much help and what kind of help needs to be provided in order for a student to perform successfully. The assessor starts off by giving a little assistance and then increasing it until the student can respond correctly.

• Content validity

• Assisted testing

• Interim assessments

• Benchmark

Using tasks that are typical of the kinds of reading or writing that students perform in school and out.

• Stanine

• Learning targets

• Authentic assessment

• Correlation

A standard of performance against which students’ achievement might be assessed. An end-of-first-grade benchmark might be the ability to read an excerpt from one of the Frog and Toad books (from the series of easy children’s books by Arnold Lobel) with 95 percent word recognition and 75 percent comprehension.

• Scaled score

• Validity

• Assessment

• Benchmark

The degree to which the tasks of an assessment device are representative of the subject or area being assessed.

• Content validity

• Authentic assessment

• Normal curve equivalent

• Reliability

The degree to which an assessment measure correlates with a similar assessment occurring at about the same time.

• Percentile rank

• Concurrent validity

• Formative assessment

• Lexile

The degree to which a test measures the concept, element, or construct it is designed to measure.

• Threshold testing

• Assisted testing

• Construct validity

• Standardized test

A statistical measure that expresses in mathematical terms the degree to which two variables are related. The correlation can fall between –1.00 and +1.00.

• Percentile rank

• Raw score

• Content validity

• Correlation coefficient

A test in which student performance is measured against a standard. A typical standard of performance on a criterion-referenced comprehension test is 75 percent.

• Criterion-referenced test

• Learning targets

• Benchmark

• Scaled score

Ongoing assessment such as a quiz, discussion, or teacher observation designed to be used to plan or inform instruction.

• Lexile

• Formative assessment

• Normal curve equivalent

• Stanine