Assessment Terms

Type of test that compares student performance against a representative sample:

• Norm-referenced

• Reliability

• Classroom Assessment

• Value Added

Multiple assessments that produce comprehensive, credible, dependable information upon which important decisions can be made:

• Assessment System

• Anchor

• Alignment

• Selected Response

Process of linking content standards to curriculum, instruction, and assessment:

• Alignment

• Diagnostic Test

• Selected Response

• Criterion-referenced

Modifications in the way assessments are designed or administered for individual students/populations:

• Accommodations

• Selected Response

• Constructed Response

• Alignment

Type of test that compares individual student performance against a specified standard:

• Criterion-Referenced

• Standardized

• Performance Assessments

• Reliability

An assessment developed, administered, and scored by a teacher to evaluate individual student performance:

• Classroom Assessment

• Task

• Assessment System

• Performance Standard

An activity, exercise, or question requiring students to solve a specific problem or demonstrate knowledge of specific concepts:

• Task

• Accommodations

• Performance Standard

• Selected Response

Defines the quality of student work necessary to reach each performance level:

• Performance Standard

• Diagonistic Test

• Value Added

• Constructed Response

Refers to how large-scale tests are developed and administered and how the results are reported:

• Standardized

• Validity

• Anchor

• High Stakes

Punishment and reward handed out students, teachers, and schools based on test results:

• High-Stakes

• Reliability

• Selected Response

• Diagnostic Test