Digital Vocabulary

Question 1

Technical Adequacy

Answer 1

A measure of the reliability and validity of an assessment tool

Question 2

Value-added models (VAM)

Answer 2

A teacher evaluation tool that compares students test scores from one year to the next to see how effective a teacher has been.

Question 3

Response to Intervention (RTI)

Answer 3

A Tiered system designed to integrate assessment, research-based instruction, and data-based decision making to improve educational outcomes for all students.

Question 4

Diagnostic Decisions

Answer 4

Decisions that are made about a student’s strengths and the reasons for them.

Question 5

Norm Reference Test

Answer 5

When the teacher compares the student’s performance to a norm average compared to other students

Question 6

Reflex movements

Answer 6

Involuntary movements that are either evident at birth or develop with maturation

Question 7

Multiple Choice Item

Answer 7

An item on an objective test that requires students to use high cognitive skills and are the most difficult out of all the objective items to construct

Question 8

Restricted Response Essay item

Answer 8

An essay item that poses a specific problem for which the student must recall proper information, organize it in a suitable manner, derive a defensible conclusion, and express it in the limits of the posed problem or within page or time limits

Question 9

Rubrics

Answer 9

Scoring standards that are composed of model answers that are used to score performance tests

Question 10

Portfolio

Answer 10

Planned collection of learner achievement that documents what a student has accomplished and the steps taken to get there

Question 11

Quantitative Item analysis

Answer 11

A mathematical approach to assessing an item’s utility that is best suited for norm-referenced multiple choice tests

Question 12

Checklists

Answer 12

Lists used to provide information about non-academic aspects of the child. They are often provided to identify problems in areas of conduct, social skills, responsibility, and organization

Question 13

Symmetrical Distribution

Answer 13

When each half or side of the distribution is a mirror image of the other

Question 14

Standard Deviation

Answer 14

The most accurate measure of variability

Question 15

Coefficient of Determination

Answer 15

The percentage of variability in one variable that is associated with or determined by the other variable

Question 16

Predictive validity evidence

Answer 16

How well a test predicts some future behavior of the examinees.

Question 17

Kuder-Richardson Methods

Answer 17

Methods that measure the extent to which items within one form of the test have as much in common with one another as do the items in an equivalent form.

Question 18

Band Interpretation

Answer 18

A technique that the teacher can use to help separate real differences in students achievement from differences to chance.

Question 19

Standard Scores

Answer 19

Scores that compare a student’s performance to that of other students at the same grade level.

Question 20

Diagnostic achievement test

Answer 20

A single subject achievement test that normally is limited to those elementary and secondary school students who are experiencing academic difficulty