EDU 450 Digital Vocabulary

Question 1

Technical Adequacy

Answer 1

A critically important factor that affects a test’s usefulness

Question 2

Validity

Answer 2

does the test measure what it is supposed to measure

Question 3

Formative Assessments

Answer 3

assess any time

Question 4

Summative Assessment

Answer 4

end of the year or semester assessment

Question 5

Norm-Referenced Tests

Answer 5

standardized tests developed by commercial test publishers

Question 6

High Stakes Testing

Answer 6

is the use of a summative or assessment test designed to measure student achievement after a period of instruction has been completed

Question 7

Performance Standards

Answer 7

established to determine whether academic standards were attained

Question 8

RTI

Answer 8

a tiered system designed to integrate assessment, research-based instruction, and data-based decision making to improve educational outcomes for all students in both regular and special education classrooms.

Question 9

Instructional Decisions

Answer 9

the nuts-and-bolts types of decisions made by all classroom teachers

Question 10

Grade Inflation

Answer 10

the tendency for teachers to assign higher grades today than in the past for the same level of performances

Question 11

Diagnostic Decisions

Answer 11

those made about a student’s strengths and weaknesses and the reason or reasons for them

Question 12

Instructional Objectives

Answer 12

clear and concise statements of the skills that students will be expected to perform after a unit of instructions.

Question 13

Essay Item

Answer 13

one for which the student supplies, rather than selects, the correct answer

Question 14

Rubrics

Answer 14

scoring standards composed of model answers that are used to score performance tests.

Question 15

Portfolio

Answer 15

a planned collection of learner achievement that documents what a student has accomplished and the steps taken to get there

Question 16

Quantitative Item Analysis

Answer 16

enables test giver to assess the quality or utility of a test item

Question 17

Descriptive Statistics

Answer 17

numbers used to describe or summarize a large body of numbers

Question 18

Mode

Answer 18

the score in a distribution that occurs most frequently

Question 19

Variability

Answer 19

term used to describe how spread out or dispersed scores are within a distribution

Question 20

Correlation

Answer 20

the extent to which two distributions are related or associated

Question 21

Reliability

Answer 21

does the test yield the same or similar scores or rankings consistently

Question 22

Accuracy

Answer 22

how closely does the test score represent an individual’s true level of ability, skill, or aptitude

Question 23

Standard Error of Measurement

Answer 23

the standard deviation of the error score distribution of a test

Question 24

Personality

Answer 24

the typical and characteristic ways people behave

Question 25

Standardized test

Answer 25

test administered and scored according to specific and uniform procedures