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Reliability
Is the degree to which an assessment tool produces stable and consistent results.
Validity
The degree to which the assessment measures what claims to measure.
Common Assessment
May be formative or summative and are use to ensure that the evaluation of student performance is more consistent and reliable. These assessments are applied to group of students.
Standardized evaluation
Assessments given to students under the same conditions.
Stanine
Is a method is scaling test scores on a nine-point standard scale with a mean of five and a standard deviation of two.
Informal assessment
No specific agenda More likely to learn about students
Formal Assessments
Systematic planned assessments
Paper-pencil assessments
Questions. Topics Problems
Qualities of good assessments
Reliability: consistent information about knowledge, skills being assess. For example, the same results today and tomorrow. Important because it provides information about student achievement and progress. Standardization: procedures of administration are the same Validity Practicality
Performance Assessment
Students demonstrate their knowledge in a non-written fashion. Focus on demonstration instead of writing.
Standard deviation
is a number that indicates how much a group of scores vary from one another on average. Teachers want to have a large standard deviation. That means that students got all possible grades. The test wasn’t too easy or too hard. To the mean, then subtract the mean from every score. Add all the scores and divide it to the number of scores you had. The divided by the number of students.
Mean
Average score.
Statistics of summary
A general impression of the overal trend.
Median
Score that falls exactly in the middle.
Raw acotes
scores solely on the number of correct answered ítems.