Test One

Question 1

Educational assessment

Answer 1

attempt to determine students’ status with respect to educational variables of interest

Question 2

Variables

Answer 2

things that vary

Question 3

Formative assessment

Answer 3

used to improve instruction

Question 4

Summative assessment

Answer 4

end of the unit or year

Question 5

High stakes tests

Answer 5

test with important consequences that ride on results

Question 6

Behavioral objective

Answer 6

Audience, Behavior, Criteria, Degree

Question 7

Cognitive assessment

Answer 7

students’ intellect

Question 8

Affective assessment

Answer 8

students’ attitudes, interests, values

Question 9

Psychomotor assessment

Answer 9

gross and fine motor skills

Question 10

Content standard

Answer 10

knowledge/skills educators want students to learn

Question 11

Performance standard

Answer 11

desired level of proficiency at which a content standard is mastered

Question 12

NAEP

Answer 12

National Assessment of Educational Progress

Question 13

Assessment blueprint

Answer 13

two way tables, one representing curricular aims for assessment, the other is levels of cognitive functioning being sought

Question 14

Norm-referenced test

Answer 14

student performance in relation to other students

Question 15

Criterion-referenced test

Answer 15

absolute interpretation, hinged on extent to which criterion (represented by test) is actually mastered

Question 16

Selected response

Answer 16

T/F, multiple choice –students choose from pre-determined answers

Question 17

Constructed response

Answer 17

essays, projects –students constructed own answer from background knowledge

Question 18

Reliability

Answer 18

= consistency

Question 19

Stability (test-retest)

Answer 19

consistency of results among different testing occasions

Question 20

Alternate form

Answer 20

consistency of results among two or more different forms of a test

Question 21

Internal consistency

Answer 21

consistency in a way an assessment instrument’s items function

Question 22

Correlation coefficient

Answer 22

reflects degree of similarity between scores on multiple tests

Question 23

Classification consistency

Answer 23

same test given on two occasions to determine % of consistent students. Decide which can be exempt from extra test on a certain topic

Question 24

Alternate form reliability

Answer 24

if two or more allegedly equivalent test forms are equivalent

Question 25

Internal consistency reliability

Answer 25

extent to which the items function in a consistent fashion

Question 26

Homogeneously

Answer 26

the same

Question 27

Standard Error of Measurement

Answer 27

the consistency of a particular person’s performance

Question 28

Dichotomous

Answer 28

test items scored right or wrong

Question 29

Polytomous

Answer 29

test items that yield multiple scores

Question 30

Kuder-Richardson

Answer 30

test containing items on which a student can be right or wrong

Question 31

Conbach’s coefficient alpha

Answer 31

test containing items on which students can be given different numbers of points