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31 Cards in this Set
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Measurement |
The act of assessing; such as assigning a number to quantify the amount of the characteristic being assessed. |
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Reliability |
Consistency, Repeatability, Trustworthiness |
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Objectivity |
A special case of reliability - interrater reliability, regardless of grader the test is consistent. |
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Validity |
Truthfulness of measurement. Consists of reliability and relevance. |
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Relevance |
Is the assessment or program worthwhile, will it benefit our material knowledge, the degree to which a test pertains to the measurement objectives of the measurement. |
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Test |
A tool or instrument used to make the particular measurement - can be written, physical and take on a variety of forms. |
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Evaluation |
Is a statement of quality, goodness, merit, value, or worthiness about what has been assessed. |
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Norm Referenced |
A level of achievement relative to a subgroup, such as all women your age. |
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Criterion Referenced |
A specific, predetermined level of achievement. |
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Formative Evaluations |
An evaluation conducted during (as opposed to at the end of) an instruction or training program. |
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Summative Evaluations |
A final comprehensive conducted at the end of an instruction or training program. |
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Domains of Human Performance |
Cognitive - mind based Affective - Behavioral, or Beliefs Psychomotor - Skill based, Imitation, Practice, Habit. |
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SPSS & Microsoft Excel |
A software developed to analyze numbers. |
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Nominal |
Name or classify Items which are differentiated by a simple naming system. Usually categorical. Items being measured have something in common. |
Number on Jersey |
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Ordinal |
Order or rank Items set to an ordinal scale are set into some kind of order by their position on the scale,or ranking. |
NFL Standings |
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Continuous |
Numbers are said to be continuous if they can be added, subtracted, multiplied, or divided, and the results have meaning. Interval - continuous data where differences are interpretable, but where there is no natural zero. Equal units arbitrary zero Ratio - In a ratio scale numbers can be compared as multiples of one another. absolute zero |
Interval temperature Ratio person's height or weight. |
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Skewness |
The statistical term for the shape or symmetry of a distribution. Positively =tail towards + end Negatively =tail towards - end |
Positive = pull ups Negative = skills test |
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Histogram |
A graph using vertical bars to present the frequency distribution of the observed scores. It lists the scores value on the horizontal axis and the frequency on the vertical axis. |
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Kurtosis |
Describes the peakedness (amplitude) of a curve. |
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Mesokurtic |
Average amount/normal |
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Platykurtic |
Flatter curve |
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Leptokurtic |
Peaked curve |
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Range |
The high score minus the low score. |
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Variance |
A measure of variability: a measure of the spread of a set of scores based on squared deviation of each score from the mean. |
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Standard Deviation |
A linear measure of variability that takes into account every score in the distribution, the square root of the variance. It is essentially an average of how much your data set deviates from the mean. |
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6 purposes of measurement, evaluation, and testing |
Placement Diagnosis Prediction Motivation Achievement Program Evaluation |
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Physical Activity |
Bodily movement |
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Physical Fitness |
Attributes that relate to the ability to perform physical activity. |
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Standard Score |
A set of observations that have been standardized around a given Mean and standard deviation. |
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3 measures of variability |
Range Variance Standard Deviation |
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Scales of Measurement |
Nominal Ordinal Continuous |
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