Weel 5: Educational testing Flashcards
(50 cards)
What are the two main types of testing done in education?
- achievement tests
- aptitude tests
Describe achievement tests
Assesses past learning
Describe aptitude tests
Assess future learning potential
What are the two roles of testing in education?
- summative assessment
- formative assessment
Summative assessment
Purely evaluative, e.g. an exam testing what you have learnt
Formative assessment
Aimed at facilitating learning as well as evaluating it
Describe the Wechsler Achievement Test
- has domains with subtests informing them
- looks at how well people have learnt stuff from school
- compatible with and standardised with the WISC
List the WIAT Composites
- reading
- mathematics
- written language
- oral language
WIAT reading subtests
- word reading
- pseudoword decoding
- reading comprehension
WIAT mathematics subtests
- numerical operations
- math reasoning
WIAT written language subtests
- spelling
- written expression
What does the PISA do?
Benchmarks different countries around the world in terms of educational achievement
What does NAPLAN do?
- assesses students in Australia
- gives a national standard for Australian schools for how they’re tracking
What are the three specifiers for Learning Disorder?
- reading
- written expression
- mathematics
What are the reading specifiers?
- word reading accuracy
- reading rate or fluency
- reading comprehension
What are the written expression specifiers?
- spelling accuracy
- grammar and punctuation accuracy
- clarity or organisation or written expression
What are the mathematic specifiers?
- number sense
- memorisation of maths facts
- accurate or fluent calculation
- accurate maths reasoning
Briefly describe the National Reading Panel study
- examined 100,000 studies
- found that effective teaching was the most critical factor in child success
What are the five vital themes in effective reading programs?
- phonemic awareness
- phonics
- fluency
- vocabulary
- comprehension
Phonemic awareness
The ability to hear and identify individual sounds in spoken words; the awareness that the spoken word can be broken down into its smallest constituent sounds
Phoneme
The smallest unit of sound
Morpheme
Individual units of meaning in words
Phonics
The relationship between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language
Fluency
The capacity to read texts accurately, but also quickly