All About Assessment

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Validity/Reliability

Observations which allow one to

determine the degree to which students

know or are able to do a given learning task.

What are formative

assessments?

An assessment that is carried out at the end of a course or unit.

What is a summative assessment?

A type of assessment designed to measure a

student’s current knowledge.

What is a diagnostic

assessment?

A test in which a student or a group's

performance is compared to that of a

norm group.

What are norm referenced tests?

Direct, systematic observation and rating of student

performance of an educational objective, often an ongoing

observation over a period of time, and typically involving the

creation of products.

What are performance-based

assessments?

A way to obtain information about a large

group by examining a smaller, randomly chosen

selection

What is sampling?

A process in which a student engages in a systematic review of

their own work.

What is self assessment?

An objective test that is given and

scored in a uniform manner.

What is a standardized test?

Evaluation at the conclusion of a unit

or units of instruction .

What is a summative assessment?

Agreed upon values used to measure the quality of

student performance, instructional methods,

curriculum, etc.

What are standards?

A test that measures what it is designed to

measure.

What is a valid test?

A test that consistently

produces similar results.

What is a reliable test?

Quantitative description of student

learning and qualitative description

of student attitude.

What is a measurement?

The type of validity that predicts the score a

student would get on a similar test but with

different questions.

What is “subject-matter” validity?

These set the requirements for

validity and reliability in educational testing.

What are The Standards for Educational and

Psychological Testing?

From ancient Greek, a term meaning a

standard on which a judgment can be made.

What are criterion?

The Latin root assidere means to sit

beside.

What is assessment?

A term meaning the point on a scale that divides a group into

two equal subgroups.

What is median?

This term refers to a test intended to measure the test-

taker's innate ability to learn.

What is aptitude test?

Field of study meaning concerned with the

theory and technique of educational and

psychological measurement.

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What is psychometrics?

The term for an assessment question

that requires judgment to determine the answer’s worth.

What are subjective questions?

Questions where students choose the

correct or best answer/completion

from a menu of alternatives.

What are multiple choice questions?

A question that requires students

to answer questions in

writing.

What is an essay question?

A question/task that asks for the behavior

the learning is intended to produce.

What is an authentic question/assessment?

A question for which the scoring procedure is completely specified

enabling agreement among different

scorers.

What is an objective question?

A scoring guide used in subjective

assessments.

What is a rubric?

A classification tool or counting system

designed to indicate and measure the degree to

which an event or behavior has occurred.

What is a scale?

A scale based on descriptive words or phrases that indicate performance levels.

What is a rating scale?

Score used to determine the minimum

performance level needed to pass a competency test.

What is a cut score?

A graphic compilation of the performance of

an individual on a series of assessments.

What is a profile?

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In assessment, assigning a single score based on an

overall assessment of performance rather than by scoring or analyzing

dimensions individually.

What is the holistic method?