Student Assessment Flashcards
Quality Testing shares four categories
reliability, standardization, validity, and practicality
Consistency of test scores. If the test scores are highly consistent, teachers have a valid base for using the scores to determine students understanding.
Reliability
When the scores fluctuate wildly, the degree of reliability decreases.
Reliability
Improve objectivity of tests. Refers to the degree to which testing procedures are kept uniformed.
Standardization
When administrative tasks, equipment, materials, observation, and scoring rules are consistent, it is referred to as standardized.
Standardization
Extent that the test measures what it claims to measure.
Validity
Validity depends of the purpose and context of its intended use. may be valid for some purposes and less valid for others.
Validity
Ease of implementation and the investment or cost of the assessment.
Practicality
Objective Assessment
Determines the core knowledge students have of a subject.
knowledge of how things are such as
Declarative Kowledge
vocabulary, fundamental concepts, and basic procedural means are assessed through
Objective Assessments
Theses test require students to answer questions, problem solve and provide responses on paper.
They represent course objectives
Objective Assessments
Teacher designed objective tests have a variety of uses. Summative (accumulative) judgments and formative evaluations.
Objective Assessments
When used to assign grades objective test take the form of
Summative Evaluation
Can also be used as a formative assessment to improve learning and teaching and can determine
Establish student readiness Judge the effectiveness of instruction Identify learning difficulties Determine prior knowledge Provide motivation for students to learn
Objective test have remained popular because
reliability is high
objectivity is high
scoring can be performed electronically
Large numbers of students can be assessed easily
Drawbacks to objective tests
Transfer of knowledge decreases when the environment of assessment is unlike the real world.
Drawbacks to objective tests
Lack complexity associated with actual performance
Best use of objectives test
Beginning of instruction to establish a base core of knowledge that is highly structured, skill based, or literal.
Essay Test
Require students to provide explanations
They have to organize responses but have freedom with regard to responses than in objective test.
Take less time to construct but more time to grade.
Scoring is subjective
Essay Test
For transfer purposes, essay tests receive higher marks than their objective counterparts
Essay Test
Essays that require higher order thinking skills, such as analysis, synthesis, evaluation or justification,
increase the likelihood of transfer.
Students interact with info by interpreting and elaborating.
Through interaction, knowledge connection stored in long term memory increases and are available in the future for transfer to similar or generalized situations.
Performance Based Assessment
used to determine if students can perform an activity or action as an indicator of academic competence.
procedural knowledge
How to do things
Procedural knowledge is evaluated through
performance based assessment.
authentic assessment
used in a real world context, performance assessment emphasizes student’s active responses that result in a product or event.
authenticity
gained favor for the increased focus on transfer.
The more the activity resembles the real world, the more likely information learned in the school setting will transfer to the environment beyond the classroom.
Authenticity
Performance Based Assessment
should reflect what those in the field of study do.
Portfolio assessment
related to performance assessment. an assembled collection of work, it chronicles a students abilities.
Performance Based Assessment/Portfolio assessment
Process takes precedence in this type of assessment.
Performance Based Assessment/Portfolio assessment
contain a high degree of objectivity if a pre-determined scoring rubric or criterion is established.
Performance Based Assessment/Portfolio assessment
Just as objectives focus on students lessons establishing a rubric that informs students how various performances equate to grades will guide students to desired outcomes.
Norm referenced scores
are accomplished by comparing the performance of students.
Norm referenced scores
Dont tell what has or has not been learned but compares populations
Norm referenced scores
when scores are norm referenced, the scores are spread out so that even if all the students in the class receive high grades, the lower of the high grades would appear in the lower quartile.
Norm referenced
viewed as less favorable than criterion referenced test because it encourages competition rather than cooperation among students.
evaluation is set on a set of criterion, not performance of other students
Criterion referenced test.
Also known as mastery test, they can be used by teachers to determine whether the students have attained predetermined knowledge and skills.
Criterion referenced test.
Criterion referenced test.
In an environment where state standards drive curriculum, this scoring makes sense.
communication with students
By sharing objectives and assessment methods with students, learning and retention improve and anxiety decreases.
Show students that learning objectives and assessment directly relate
Incorporating students into the assessment procedure
Supply students with models of work and rubrics
Incorporating students into the assessment procedure
Encourage students to monitor their progress
Incorporating students into the assessment procedure
Allow students to revise or retake assessments.
Incorporating students into the assessment procedure
Including students in the process encourages their internal locus of control.
ncorporating students into the assessment procedure
