Module 1 Assessment

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.

• Formative Evaluation

• Rubric

• Median

• Portfolio Assessment

  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.

• Reliability

• Rubric

• Portfolio Assessment

• Median

The middle number; the point where there is one-half above and one-half below, thus dividing the group into two equal parts: the 50th percentile…..

• Deviation

• Range

• Correlation

• Median

  Process of gathering and using qualitative and quantitative data to make a judgment of value, worth, merit, or effectiveness. This can be for an individual student, group, class, grade level, department, school, school district, or program.

• Range

• Grade Equivalent

• Evaluation

• Criterion-referenced

A combination of natural and acquired talents, interests, and abilities that a student may innately possess or have learned. These usually indicate the ability to learn more and develop proficiency in a given area, subject, or skill.

• Aptitude

• Range

• Median

• Stanine

The number of points or a given part out of 100. The scores on many classroom tests and report card grades are based on the percentage a student has gotten correct.

• Battery

• Percentage

• Percentile

• Norm-Referenced

A set of tests that were normed or standardized on the same group of students so that the results of each test can be compared. Often, these tests measure similar kinds of abilities and skills. It is also used to indicate any series of tests given together; each test in the series provides different types of information.

• Percentile

• Benchmarks

• Accountability

• Battery

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

• High Stakes Test

• Tests

• Accountability

• Validity

The age for which a given score on an intelligence test is considered average or normal.

• Mental Age

• Assessment

• Percentile

• Ceiling

Mathematically, the sum of a group of numbers divided by the amount of numbers. This term is also used to describe the center, the normal, or the general level of knowledge, which is minimally acceptable. On a report card, a grade of "C" usually indicates average.

• Median

• Mean

• Average

• Range