Drills

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Administered before and during instruction

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Assessment FOR learning

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Administered after instruction

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Assessment OF learning

Question 3

Formative assessment

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Assessment for learning

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Summative assessment

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Assessment of learning

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Paper and pencil test

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Traditional

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Portfolio / performance task

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Alternative

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Real-life

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Authentic

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Psychological effect; High expectation, high performance

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Rosenthal / Pygmalion effect

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Psychological effect; Escalating

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Ripple effect

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Psychological effect; Low expectation, poor performance

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Golem effect

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Psychological effect; General impression

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Halo effect

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Psychological effect; observation leads to good performance

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Hawthorne effect

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AFORL; To identify a student’s current knowledge and skill level to place them in the appropriate course level.

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Placement Tests

Question 14

AFORL; To measure a person’s potential to learn and develop skills in a specific area

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Aptitude test

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AFORL; To pinpoint a student’s strengths and weaknesses in a particular subject or skill.

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Diagnostic test

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AFORL; identify prior knowledge / predictive validity

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Pretest

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AFORL; mastery drills

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Formative

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Integral part of teaching and learning process

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Assessment OF learning

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Refers to consistency of result; split test/parallel test

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Reliability

Question 20

Measure what it intends to measure

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Validity

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compare a student’s performance to other students

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Norm referencing

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measure a student’s performance against a fixed standard or predetermined criteria

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Criterion referencing

Question 23

A statistic that represents the single value of the entire population or a dataset.

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Central tendency

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Easily affected by outliers; most stable or reliable; average

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Mean

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Middle most; 2nd quartile; most reliable if there are outliers or extreme scores

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Median

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Frequently appearing

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Mode

Question 27

3 measures of central tendency

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Mean, median, mode

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3 measures of variability/dispersion

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Range, standard deviation, variance

Question 29

Simplest/crude measure of variability; difference between the highest and lowest value

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Range

Question 30

Average amount of variability in datasets; how spread the scores are

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Standard deviation

Question 31

High standard deviation means ...

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Scattered; spread; far; heterogeneous

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Low standard deviation means ...

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Clustered; bunched together; near; homogeneous

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A measurement of how far each number in a data set is from the mean (average)

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Variance

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High variance means ...

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More spread out

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Low variance means ...

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Close to the mean

Question 36

indicate where a specific data point stands within a dataset compared to other points

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Measure of relative position

Question 37

divide a dataset into 100 equal parts, indicating the percentage of values below a given score.

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Percentile

Question 38

divide a dataset into four equal parts

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Quartile

Question 39

(also called standard scores) measure how many standard deviations a data point is away from the mean of a dataset.

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Z score

Question 40

divide a dataset into ten equal parts.

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Decile

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They range from 1 to 9, with 5 being the average, and stanines 1-3 generally considered below average, 4-6 as average, and 7-9 as above average

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Stanine

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Measures the asymmetry of a distribution (tail)

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Skewness

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Clustered to the left; tail/skewed to the right; low score

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Positively skewed

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Clustered to the right; tail/skewed to the left; high scores

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Negatively skewed

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measures the peakedness and tailedness of a distribution relative to a normal distribution

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Kurtosis

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Indicates a normal distribution, with the standard bell shape.

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Kurtosis of 3 (mesokurtic)

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Indicates less data in the tails, meaning fewer extreme values or outliers.

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Low kurtosis (platykurtic)

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Indicates more data in the tails, meaning more extreme values or outliers

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High kurtosis (leptokurtic)