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Learner directed instruction

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Students have considerable control regarding issues they address and the ways they address them in a lesson

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Teacher directed instruction

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Teacher is largely in control of content and course of the lesson

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Instructional goal

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Desired long term outcome of a lesson

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Instructional objective

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Desired outcome of a lesson or unit

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Backward design

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Approach to instructional planning in which a teacher first determines the desired end result, such as what knowledge and skills students should acquire, and then identifies appropriate assessments and instructional strategies

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Standards

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General statements regarding the knowledge and skills that students should gain and the characteristics that their accomplishments should reflect

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Blooms taxonomy

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Taxonomy of six cognitive processes that lessons might be designed to foster

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6 processes of blooms taxonomy

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Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyze
Evaluate 
Create
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Task analysis

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Process of identifying the specific behaviors, knowledge or cognitive processes necessary to master a particular subject area or skill

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Lesson plan

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Teacher constructed guide for a lesson that identifies instructional goals and materials and assessment methods

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Expository instruction

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Approach to instruction in which information is presented in more or less the same form in which students are expected to learn it

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Advance organizer

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Introduction to a lesson that provides an overall organizational scheme for the lesson

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Mastery learning

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Approach to instruction in which students learn one topic thoroughly before moving to a subsequent one

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Direct instruction

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Approach that uses a variety of techniques (ie explanations questions) in a fairly structured manner to promote learning of basic skills

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Distance learning

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Technology based instruction in which students are at a location physically separate from that of their instructor

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Information literacy

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Knowledge and skills that help a learner find use evaluate organize and present information about a particular topic

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Discovery learning

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Approach to instruction in which students derive their own knowledge about a topic through firsthand interaction with the environment

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Inquiry learning

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Students seek new information through the intentional application of higher level thinking processes

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Authentic activity

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Classroom activity similar to an activity that students are apt to encounter in the outside world

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Lower level question

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Requires students to retrieve and recite what they have learned in essentially the same way they learned it

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Higher level question

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Requires students to use previously learned information in a new way

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Reciprocal teaching

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Approach to teaching reading and listening comprehension in which students take turns asking teacher like questions of classmates

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Cooperative learning

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Students work with small group of peers to achieve a common goal and help one another learn

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Base group

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Cooperative learning group in which students work together for an entire semester or year to provide mutual support for each other’s learning

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Jigsaw technique

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Materials are divided among members of a group with different students being responsible for learning different content and teaching it to other group members

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Scripted cooperation

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Cooperative learning groups follow a set of steps or script that guides members verbal interactions

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Differentiated instruction

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Practice of individualize my instructional methods and possibly content or goals to align with each students existing knowledge skills and needs

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Assessment

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Process of observing a sample of a students behavior and drawing inferences about the students knowledge and abilities

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Informal assessment

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Results from a teachers spontaneous day to day observations of how students perform in class

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Formal assessment

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Preplanned systematic attempt to ascertain what students know and can do

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Paper pencil assessment

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Students provide written responses to written items

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Performance assessment

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Students demonstrate their knowledge and skills in a non written fashion

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Traditional assessment

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Focuses on measuring basic knowledge and skills in relative isolation from tasks typical of the outside world

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Authentic assessment

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Done in a context similar to one in the outside world

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Standardized test

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Developed by test construction experts and published for use in many different schools and classrooms

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Teacher developed assessment instrument

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Developed by an individual teacher for use in his or her own classroom

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Criterion referenced assessment

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Instrument designed to determine what students know and can do relative to predetermined standards or criteria

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Norm referenced assessment

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Indicates how students perform relative to a peer group

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Formative evaluation

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Conducted before or during instruction to facilitate instructional planning and enhance students learning

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Summative evaluation

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Conducted after instruction to assess students final achievement

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Reliability

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Extent to which an assessment yields consistent information about the knowledge skills or characteristics being assessed

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Standardization

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Extent to which an assessment involves similar content and format and is administered and scored similarly for everyone

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Validity

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Extent to which an assessment actually measures what it is intended to measure and allows appropriate inferences about the characteristic or ability in question

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Content validity

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Extent to which an assessment includes a representative sample of tasks Within the content domain being assessed

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Table of specifications

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Two way grid indicating the topics to be covered in an assessment and the things students should be able to do with those topics

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Predictive validity

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Extent to which the results of an assessment predict future performance in a particular domain

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Construct validity

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Extent to which an assessment accurately measures an unobservable educational or psychological characteristic

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Practicality

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Extent to which an assessment instrument or procedure is inexpensive and easy to use and takes only a small amount of time to administer and score

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Halo effect

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Phenomenon in which people are more likely to perceive positive behaviors in someone they like or admire

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Horns effect

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People are more likely to perceive negative behaviors in someone for whom they have little affection or respect

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Recognition task

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Memory tasks in which one must identify correct information among incorrect statements or irrelevant information

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Recall task

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One must retrieve information from long term memory with only minimal retrieval cues

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You should focus on ________ during the days and weeks before an assessment

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Mastery goals

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Rubric

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List of components that a students performance on an assessment should ideally include, used to guide scoring

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Dynamic assessment

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Systematic examination of how readily and in what ways a student can acquire new knowledge or skills usually with adult assistance or some other form of scaffolding

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Checklist

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Assessment tool with which a teacher evaluates a students performance by indicating whether specific behaviors or qualities are present or absent

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Rating scale

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Assessment tool with which a teacher evaluates a students performance by rating the aspects of the performance on a continua

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Analytic scoring

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Scoring a students performance on an assessment by evaluating various aspects of it separately

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Holistic scoring

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Summarizing a students performance on an assessment with a single score

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Testwiseness

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Test taking know how that enhances test performance

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Test anxiety

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Excessive anxiety about a particular test or about assessment in general

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Item analysis

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Follow up analysis of patterns in students responses to various items on an assessment instruments

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Item difficulty

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Index reflecting the proportion of students getting a particular assessment item correct

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Item discrimination

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Index reflecting the relative proportions of high scoring versus low scoring students getting a particular assessment item correct

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Raw score

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Assessment score based solely on the number or point value of correctly answered items

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Criterion referenced score

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Specifically indicates what a student knows or can do

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Norm referenced score

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Indicates how a students performance compares with the performance of others

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Norms

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In assessment, the data regarding the typical performance of various groups of students on standardized tests or other norm referenced measures of ability

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Grade equivalent score

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Test score matching a particular students performance with the average performance of students at a certain grade level

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Age equivalent score

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Test score matching a particular students performance with the average performance of students of a certain age

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Percentile rank

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Test score indicating the percentage of peers in the norm group getting a raw score less than or equal to a particular students raw score

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Normal distribution

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Theoretical pattern where most score in the middle range and only a few at either extreme

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Standard score

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Test score indicating how far a students performance is from the mean in terms of standard deviation units

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Scholastic aptitude test

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Test designed to assess a general capacity to learn and used to predict future academic achievement

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Specific aptitude test

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Test designed to predict future ability to succeed in a particular content domain

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School readiness test

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Assesses cognitive skills important for success in a typical kindergarten or first grade curriculum

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Adaptive testing

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Computer based assessment in which students performance on early items determines which items are presented subsequently

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High stakes testing

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Practice of using students performance on a single assessment to make major decisions about students school personnel or overall school quality

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Accountability

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An obligation of teachers and other school personnel to accept responsibility for students performance on high stakes assessments often mandated by policy makers calling for school reform

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No child left behind act

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Mandates regular assessment of basic skills to determine whether students are making adequate yearly progress in relation to state determined standards in reading math and science

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Bias in assssment

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Factor that consistently influences students performance for reasons unrelated to the characteristic being measured and reduces validity of the performance

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Cultural bias

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Extent to which assessment tasks either offend or unfairly penalize someone because of their ethnicity or gender or SES

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FERPA

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Gives students and parents access to academic records while limiting others access to those records

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