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What are four ways of assessing students
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paper and pencil
statements students make in class questions students ask in class nonverbal behaviors |
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What are standardized tests?
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tests developed by experts and published for use in many diff schools and classrooms
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What are achievement tests? (under standardized tests)
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assess general academic progress in diff areas of the curriculum
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What are intelligence and general scholastic aptitude tests? (under standardized tests)
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used to assess overall ability of student to learn and to be successful in school
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What are specific aptitude tests (under standardized tests)
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used to assess students' abilities to be successful in a certain subject/area of the curriculum
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What do test manuals do?
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provide instructions for administration
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What are norms?
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data of diff groups of students who took the test that can be used for comparison
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Performance assessment involves...
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students performing their abilities
giving a speech, jumping a hurdle, doing a dance |
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What is authentic assessment?
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It deals with the real world
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What is informal assessment?
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Day-to-day observations about how students are performing
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What is formal assessment?
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Something you plan in advance and use for specific purpose
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What is formative evaluation?
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Quizzes and such to see how students are doing
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What is summative evaluation?
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Would be like a final exam. See what students have learned.
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Realiability=
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consistency
The extent to which it yields consistent info about the knowledge, skills, or abilities we are trying to measure |
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Validity
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the extent to which the assessment measures what it is supposed to measure
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What is construct validity?
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extent to which assessment accurately measures underlying, non-observable characteristics
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What is predictive validity?
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extent to which results might predict future behavior
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What is content validity?
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extent to which the test students complete measures what we want students to learn and what we taught in class
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What is practicality?
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extent to which assessment instruments are relatively easy to use
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What are the 5 important factors affecting practicality?
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time to develop?
how easily administered to large group of students? how expensive are materials involved? how much time will it take from other instructional activities? how quickly and easily can performance be evaluated? |
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In terms of standardization, reliability, validity, and practicality, what's the most important?
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VALIDITY!
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Which of the following--reliability, standardization, validity, or practicality--is the best in terms of informal assessment.
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Practicality
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What are three important questions to ask when planning a formal assessment?
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What is the content domain you will test?
What kind of tasks will you use to assess? How do you obtain a representative sample? |
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What are recognition tasks?
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The answer is right in front of the student and they have to pick the right one
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What are recall tasks?
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They require the student to come up with their own answer. It is not simply right in front of them.
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When are reference materials appropriate?
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When we want our students to locate and use info rather than simply memorize it
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