Preschool and Educational Assessment Flashcards
Evaluation of accomplishment or the degree of learning that has taken place, usually with regard to an academic area
Achievement test
A test that usually focuses more on informal as opposed to formal learning experiences and is designed to measure both learning and inborn potential for the purpose of making predictions about the testtaker’s future performance; also referred to as a prognostic test and, especially with young children, a readiness test
Aptitude test
Defined in different ways by different school districts, but in general, a reference to functioning that is deficient and possibly in need of intervention
At risk
Also known as performance-based assessment, evaluation on relevant, meaningful tasks that may be conducted to examine learning of academic subject matter but that demonstrates the student’s transfer of that study to real-world activities
Authentic assessment
A questionnaire formatted to allow a person to mark items indicative of information such as the presence or absence of a specified behavior, thought, event, or circumstance
Checklist
A general term referring to school-based evaluations that clearly and faithfully reflect what is being taught
Curriculum-based assessment (CBA)
A type of curriculum-based assessment characterized by the use of standardized measurement procedures to derive local norms to be used in the evaluation of student performance on curriculum-based tasks
Curriculum-based measurement
In educational contexts, test or other data used to pinpoint a student’s difficulties for the purpose of remediating them
Diagnostic information
Test or other data used to make judgments such as class placement, pass/fail, and admit/reject decisions; contrast with diagnostic information
Evaluative information
A disorder involving a discrepancy between ability and achievement, which may manifest itself in attentional, emotional, perceptual, and/or motor deficits, and/or in problems related to doing mathematical calculations, reading, writing, spelling, or using or understanding spoken or written language; not applicable to persons who have academic problems that are cultural or economic in origin, or to persons who have learning problems arising primarily from visual, hearing, or motor handicaps or mental retardation
Learning disability
A pretest or routing test, usually for determining the most appropriate level of test
Locator test
A method of obtaining evaluation-related information about an individual by polling that individual’s friends, classmates, work colleagues, or other peers
Peer appraisal
An evaluation of performance tasks according to criteria developed by experts from the domain of study tapped by those tasks
Performance assessment
(1) In general, a work sample designed to elicit representative knowledge, skills, and values from a particular domain of study; (2) in employment settings, an instrument or procedure that requires the assessee to demonstrate certain job-related skills or abilities under conditions identical or analogous to conditions on the job
Performance task or test
A tool of assessment used to predict; sometimes synonymous with aptitude test
Prognostic test
