Methods Of Assessment and testing Considerations Flashcards
Definition of formal assessment?
Formal Assessments assume a single set of expectations for all students and come with prescribed criteria for scoring and interpretation.
Definition of informal assessment?
Informal assessment can judge and evaluate students’ performance and skill levels without making use of standardized tests and scoring patterns.
What is the differences between formal and informal assessment?
Formal assessments are formal ways of finding out how much a student has learnt or improved during the instructional period. Examples of formal assessment are: exams, diagnostic tests, achievement tests, screening and intelligence tests.
Informal Assessment are no standardized tools to measure or evaluate the performances in these assessment tools. Examples are projects, experiment, and presentations.
What is a norm referenced test and what is it purpose?
The norm referenced tests allow us to compare a student’s skills to others in his age group. They are developed by creating the test items and then administering the test to a group of students that will be used as the basis of comparison.
The purpose is that they are designed to “rank order” test takers- that is, to compare students’ scores. A commercial norm-referenced test does not compare all the students who take the test in a given year.
What are the drawbacks of the Norm-Referenced Tests?
Norm-Referenced tests included standardized test which are test with carefully designed procedure, questions, and administration.
NRT does not ensure that a test is valid. Another disadvantage of norm-referenced tests is that they cannot measure progress of the population as a whole, only where individuals fall within the whole.
What is the definition of Criterion-Referenced Tests
Criterion-Referenced tests CRT report how well students are doing relative to a predetermined performance level on a specified set of educational goals or outcomes included in the school, district, or state curriculum. Educator use CRT to determine what specific concepts a child has learned.
Definition of Standards Referenced Tests
Standards-referenced tests evaluate whether students have learned a specific body of knowledge or acquired a specific skill set described in a given set of standards.
Definition of Ecological Assessments
Ecological Assessments involves directly observing and assessing a child in the many environments in which
Definition of Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBA)
CBA is assessment based on the curriculum that a child is mastering. It may be the curriculum materials for the grade level the child is in, or it may be ad adapted to the student’s ability or IEP goals.
Definition of Curriculum-based Measurement (CBM)
CBM is an assessment method that involves timing tasks and then charting performance. CBM is most fluency.
What are the similarities and differences between CBA and CBM
The different between CBA and CBM is CBA provide a direct assessment of a child’s skills upon entry into a curriculum; guide development of individual goals, interventions, and accommodations; and allow for continual monitoring. CBM looks at the rate at which a student is able to perform a given task.
Definition of Portfolio Assessments
It is a collection of work is often gathered over a long period of time to reflect what you have been taught as well as what you have learned.
Definition of Authentic Assessments
Authentic Assessments is a form of assessment in which students are asked to perform real- world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of essential knowledge and skills
Definition of Task Analysis
Task Analysis is very detailed; in involves breaking down a particular task into the basic sequential steps, component parts, or skills necessary to accomplish the task.
Definition of Outcome Based Assessments
Outcome-Based Assessments has been developed, at least in part, to respond to concerns that education, to be meaningful, must be directly related to what educators and parents want the child to have gained in the end.
