Methods of Assessment and Testing Considerations

Question 1

Definition of Formal Assessment

Answer 1

Assume a single set of expectations for all students and come with prescribed criteria for scoring and interpretation.

Question 2

Definition of Informal Assessment

Answer 2

Can judge and evaluate students’ performance and skill levels without making use of standardized tests and scoring patterns.

Question 3

Differences between formal and informal assessments

Answer 3

Formal: Formal assessments are formal ways of finding out how much a student has learned or improved during the instructional period. These include exams, diagnostic test, achievement test, screening, and intelligence test.The data are mathmatematically computed and summarized. Scores such as percentiles, stanines, or stand scores are mostly commonly given from this type of assessment.
Informal: There are no standardized tool to measure or evaluate the performances in these assessments are projects , experiements, and presentations given by students in classrooms and other platforms. They are not data driven but rather content and performance driven.

Question 4

Non-referenced test

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Allows us to compare a student’s skills to others in his age group.

Question 5

Purpose of Non-referenced test

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Non-referenced test are designed to “ rank order” test takers-that is, to compare students’ scores.

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Drawbacks of Non-referenced test

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1. Many teacher are (unjustly) accused of teaching to the test.
2. Some school systems are under great pressure to raise their scores so they have resorted to decreasing (and sometimes doing away with ) time spend in recess.
3. Standardized test can place a huge amount of stress on students and teachers alike.
4. standardized test have the potential for test bias
5. standardized testing only evaluates the individual performance of the student instead of the overral growth of that student over the course of the year.

Question 7

Criterion-refernced test (CRTs)

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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 curriculm.

Question 8

Standards-referenced test

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standard based assessment

Question 9

Ecological assessment

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invloves directly ovbserving and asessing a child in the many enviroments in which he or she routinely operates.

Question 10

Curriculm-based assessment(CBA)

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is assessment based in the curriculm that a child is mastering.

Question 11

Curriculm-based measurment(CBM)

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is an assessment method that invloves timing task and then charting performances

Question 12

Authentic assessments

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is a form of assessment in which students are asked to perform real-world task that demonstrate meaningful application of essential knoeledge and skill.

Question 13

Task analysis

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is very detailed; invloves breaking down a particular task into basic sequential steps, component parts, or skills necessary to accomplish the task.

Question 14

Outcome based assessments

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has been developed, at least in part, to repsond 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. involving considering, teaching, and evaluating the skills that are important in real-life situations.

Question 15

Similarities between CBA and CBM

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• both are curriculum based
• analysis
• development of material
• keep tract of student progress

Question 16

Differences between CBA and CBM

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CBA-non-standardized
-teacher created
-given freguently throughout the school year
CBM-standardized
-norm-referenced with scoring, start, and stop rules
-given annually