Test and Measurement

Question 1

Summative Test

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Are administered after some period of instruction is completed. They are intended to provide a measure or gauge of student learning following the completion of a unit of instruction.

Question 2

Formative Test/Assessments

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Are intended to assess the effectiveness of instruction on an on going basis and to inform day to day instructional decision making. They are intended to be administered frequently.

Question 3

Norm Referenced Test (NRTs)

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Are typically standardized tests developed by commercial test publishers, sometimes in conjunction with the state education agencies. They are used to compare the performance of students who currently take the test with a sample of students who completed the test when it was being developed.

Question 4

Criterion-Referenced Test (CRTs)

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May be standardized or teacher made. They are used for comparison to an absolute standard or criterion.

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Response To Intervention (RTI)

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This is a tiered system designed to integrate assessment, research-based instruction and data based decision making to improve educational outcomes for all students both regular and special education classrooms.

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High Stakes Testing

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Is the use of a summative test or an assessment test designed to measure student achievement after a period of instruction has been completed.

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IDEIA

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IDEIA is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is part of the American legislation that grantees students with a disability are provided with free appropriate public education that is suited to fit their individual needs.

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Validity

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Is if a test has evidence by showing that it can measure what it claims to measure.

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Portfolio Assessment

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Is a collection of a learner’s work throughout the school year and is one of the best ways to show both final achievement and the effort to getting there

Question 10

Reliability

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refers to the consistency with which it yields the same rank for individuals who take the test more than once.

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Standard Deviation

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is the variability of raw scores. It is based on a group of scores that actually exist

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Error

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is any factor that leads an individual to perform better or worse on a test than the individual’s true level of performance

Question 13

Predictive Validity evidence

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refers to how well the test predicts some future behavior of the examines.

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Band Interpretation

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a technique that the teacher can use to help separate real differences in student achievement from differences due to chance.

Question 15

Test-Retest

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is a method of estimating score reliability that is exactly what its name implies

Question 16

Standard Error of Measurement

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Is a value that decreases as the accuracy of a test increases. Is the variability of error scores

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Curriculum Based Measurement

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A method of monitoring student educational progress through direct assessment of academic skills.

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Symmetrical Distribution

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The majority of test scores that tend to cluster toward the middle of a the range of scores

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content validity evidence

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yields a logical judgment as to whether the test measures what it is supposed to measure, based on a systematic comparison of the test to the domain it is intended to measure

Question 20

construct validity evidence

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is determined by finding by finding whether test results correspond with scores on variables as predicted by some rationale or theory