Gifted Assessments

A teacher-constructed list of characteristics used as criteria for ranking the quality of students' work, along with some type of guide for scoring or grading. Usually, this guide describes the criteria along with a numerical range or scale to indicate the degree of quality or mastery shown by the work. There are many different types of these, all of which are useful for the project or performance assessment.

• Rubric

• Portfolio Assessment

• Achievement Test

• Likert Scale

Information and data gathered along the way that is used to improve, modify, or revise a program, curriculum, or unit of instruction to enhance student learning. This type of evaluation helps guide ongoing classroom instruction.

• Portfolio Assessment

• Summative Evaluation

• Formative Assessment

• Standardized Test

The middle number; the point where there is one-half above and one-half below, thus dividing the group into two equal parts

• Correlation

• Range

• Deviation

• Median

Agreed-upon values used to measure levels of attainment that students should work toward in content, process, performance, or lifelong learning—specific indicators of what students should know and be able to do due to their education.

• Norms

• Standards

• Range

• Median

Consistency in scoring no matter who the scorer is. As such, it includes differences of opinion among scorers as to whether responses are scored as right or wrong. This is much easier to accomplish with a test that has a given correct answer for each item.

• Norms

• Likert Scale

• Standards

• Objectivity

A numeric rating scale of attitudes or values indicating most to least, strongly agree to strongly disagree, etc. The respondent uses this scale to indicate attitudes about people, places, ideas, concepts, activities, or objects. It helps put a numeric measurement onto qualitative ideas and other things that are hard to measure objectively.

• Likert Scale

• Rubric

• Quartile

• High Stakes Test

A progression showing the steps, guideposts, or reasonable expectations indicating what students are capable of learning and what they should know and be able to do at different ages and grade levels regarding standards. They often provide the framework for teaching and assessing key concepts and skills because they are usually more specific and concrete than standards.

• Aptitude Test

• Quartile

• Mastery Test

• Benchmarks

A learning or inclination giving an unfair advantage or disadvantage. An undesirable characteristic of tests in which factors unrelated to the test influence the scores. Therefore, the content of test items discriminates in favor of or against certain students or groups of students because of their experiences, race, gender, cultural exposure, economic status, etc. An error in content, administration, and interpretation is built into the system, contributing to statistical differences between groups or types of people.

• Content Validity

• Bias

• Deviation

• Correlation

The division of achievement distribution into four equal parts. The scale is 0-25, 26-50, 51-75 and 76-100. The number of persons per "division" is the same.

• Standard Deviation

• Percentage

• Mean

• Quartile

The extent to which a test does the job it is used and measures what it is supposed to measure.

• Validity

• Accountability

• Likert Scale

• Aptitude