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Achievement Test |
A measurement of the knowledge and/or skills a student possesses. Although often thought to assess what a student has achieved in school, some commercially published achievement tests contain many items measuring a student's out-of-school learning or the student's inherited academic aptitudes. |
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Affective Assessment |
A measurement of a student's attitudes, interests, and/or values. |
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Alignment |
The substantive agreement between two or more of the following: curriculum, instruction, and assessment |
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Alternate Assessments |
Meaningfully different tests intended for students with disabilities so that more valid inferences can be made about the students than if the original test were used |
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Alternate Form Reliability |
The consistency of measured results yielded by different forms of the same test |
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Analytic Scoring |
A method of scoring a student's constructed responses involving the application of multiple evaluative criteria, one criterion at a time. After having employed the evaluative criteria separately, there may be an aggregation of these separate judgements into a final, overall evaluation |
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Anonymity-Enhancement Procedures |
The steps a teacher takes so that a student can accurately perceive his or her responses to self-report affective assessment inventories are truly untraceable |
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Aptitude Tests |
A measurement device intended to predict a student's likelihood of success in some future setting, often an academic one. Although formerly referred to as intelligence tests, and thought to assess a person's innate potential, aptitude tests often contain a number of the same sorts of items in achievement tests. |
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Assessment |
A formal attempt to determine a student's status with respect to an educational variable of interest. |