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Assessment Vocabulary
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Education
Graduate
10/03/2012

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standard
Definition
knowledge or skill that a student is to learn
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multiple binary choice item
Definition
test items with one stem and multiple yes/no questions
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disaggregate scores
Definition
to look at how a certain group performs on a test
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formative assessment
Definition
assessment given during a learning sequence
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reliability
Definition
consistency of results produced by measurement devices
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N
Definition
the number of individuals in a group
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subgroup
Definition
students who share certain traits (girls, ELL, Asian, etc)
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output measure
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assessing what a person knows as a result of training
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selected response items
Definition
items on which students choose a response
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alignment
Definition
agreement between curriculum, instruction, and assessment
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achievement gap
Definition
how different groups perform on a test
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criterion-referenced tests
Definition
tests in which students are measured against a preset score
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summative assessments
Definition
assessments given at the end of a learning sequence
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norm-referenced tests
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tests in which students are measured against one another's score
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constructed response items
Definition
items on which students generate an answer
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distractors
Definition
wrong answer options on a multiple choice test
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school demographics
Definition
ethnic, gender, socioeconomic make-up of a school
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high stakes test
Definition
assessments that influence grade promotion, college acceptance
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input measures
Definition
assessing how much training a person has had
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validity
Definition
degree of correctness of teacher inferences
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bias
Definition
unfair advantage
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standards-based grading
Definition
assigning quarterly grades based on progress toward a standard
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close-ended constructed response items
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items on which students create a response and there is only one correct answer
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item analysis
Definition
analyzing patterns in student errors
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open-ended constructed response items
Definition
items on which students create a response and there is more than one correct answer
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