Quiz 7 Flashcards
What did Anastasi argue in his 1979 conference talk?
Psychometric vocabulary should remove ‘aptitude’ and ‘achievement’
Traditionally, how is intelligence and aptitude differentiated from achievement?
Intelligence and aptitude are innate-capacity. Achievement is effects of learning.
What is AQ? Formula?
Achievement/Accomplishment Quotient.
Divide Educational Quotient by Intelligence Quotient (EQ/IQ)
What is educational quotient?
Ratio of educational age with chronological age
Why did AQ fall out? When?
Mid-20th century.
Statistical weakness. Psychological grounds too (unwarrented assumptions).
What did it mean when AQ is above 100? What are concerns?
Above 100 is ‘overachievers’
Concerns are that it’s impossible to achieve greater than your capacity.
Explained by unreliability of tests and unusually strong interest/motivation
How is jangle fallacy related to intelligence/aptitude tests and achievement tests?
Kelley argued that they meant the same thing, just different terms.
Correlation very high (90% overlap)
What did GRE Board do with aptitude-achievement distinctions?
They helped dispel it by changing ‘aptitude’ test to ‘general’ test.
Antecedent Experience and Achievement vs. Aptitude
Muc hmore narrow for achievement test, while the pool is broad in aptitude.
Use of test scores (Achievement vs. Aptitude)
Achievement: used to see current status
Aptitude: used to predict future performance
What is functional assessment?
An assortment of procedures to get at the cause (or function) of some behavior for a particular person.
Is functional assessment inter or intra-individual
Intra-individual
What does it mean when variance is high while doing a functional assessment?
Cannot get the baseline. Something is happening.
In psych, are theories for individuals or aggregates?
what does this entail?
stated for individuals.
There’s a disconnect between statistics and theories.
What’s an authentic assessment?
Part of performance assessment. Real-world tasks involved.
What is the ‘con’ or necessary requirement for performance assessments?
Must have a rubric or some criteria, or else it will be subjective.
What might anti-test people say about testing in education?
Testing makes teachers focus on ‘teaching to the test’ rather than to teach better and more permanent outcomes.
Formative vs. Summative assessment
Formative: data gathered to monitor student learning, so students can focus efforts and teachers can improve teaching
Summative: exams, papers, projects, etc. at end of learning period.
Common Core State Standards
Comprehensive set of standards (English and math, but more to come) for K-12 students. What students should achieve by the end of each year.
For conformity between states in educational development.
How has specific learning disabilities traditionally been diagnosed?
IQ-achievement discrepancies
The RtI model
Response to Intervention model
A multilevel prevention framework to maximize student achievement and identify students at risk for poor learning. Evidence-based.
why is RtI model multilevel?
3 tiers.
1) classroom environment
2) those who failed to make progression in another section
3) those who fail to respond to second tier
Multitiered System of Support (MTSS)
Deliver academic interventions, but also provide services beyond academics, like social and emotional support.
Problem-solving model
Use of interventions tailored to students’ individual needs identified by school professionals.
Integrative assessment
Multidisciplinary approach to evaluating, assimilating input from multiple sources
Dynamic Assessment
Contrasts to static/fixed tests. Interactive. Assesses potential learning by ‘guidance’
Zone of proximal development
Distance between actual developmental level and the level of potential development under guidance or collaboration
Achievement Batteries
Tests that cover multiple areas and typically divided into subtests
Locator tests / Routing tests
Pretests to determine level of actual test most appropriate
What kind of test is Cooperative Achievement Test?
achievement in specific areas
Curriculum-based Assessment (CBA)
Assessment of information acquired from teachings at school.
Two types of achievement test items
fact-based
conceptual
According to book, how do aptitude tests differ to achievement tests?
Aptitude is about informal learning or life experiences, while achievement tests are learning from structured input.
Aptitude tests are also called ______
Prognostic tests (test used to make predictions)
What are readiness tests?
Aptitude tests but for preschool/elementary level.
Apgar number
Score on rating scale to newborn about their health.
Informal evaluation
Nonsystematic, off-the-record assessment that leads to some attitude
Metropolitan Readiness Tests
test battery
reading and math skills
2 levels
orally administered
Miller Analogies Test (MAT)
100-item
MC
analogies
cost-effective aptitude test
Diagnostic test
Tool used to identify areas of deficit to be targeted for intervention
T/F: Diagnositc tests can have simpler items than achievement tests for the same grade.
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Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests- 3rd Ed
15-45 minutes
4.5 to 80 years old
a diagnostic reading test (subtests in textbook)
Psychoeducational test batteries
Test abilities related to academic success and those that measure educational achievement
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, 2nd ed Normative Update
A type of psychoeducational test battery.
What theory was the KABC-II (Kaufman Assessment Battery) aligned with?
CHC theory of cognitive abilities.
Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ IV)
a type of psychoeducational test battery.
measures broad cognitive abilities, oral language, and academic achievement
also uses CHC theory
Performance Assessment
Something requiring examinee to do more than just choose a correct response.
Performance Task
A work sample designed to elicit some representative knowledge/skill/values from a particular domain.
Portfolio
Work sample.
Peer Appraisal methods
Ask individual’s peer group to make an evaluation.
Sociogram
Graphically illustrated results of peer approaisal.
