Assessment and Evaluation Flashcards
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Grade equivalent scores on a standardized test are MOST accurately interpreted as:
Answer: The average performance of students at a given grade and time of year
A grade equivalent score indicates that a student's performance is similar to the average score of students at that grade level and month of the school year.
Which term describes the degree to which test scores from one assessment can predict performance on a future criterion?
Answer: Predictive validity
Predictive validity is the extent to which a test score accurately forecasts a future outcome, such as predicting college GPA from SAT scores.
Criterion-referenced tests are designed to measure:
Answer: Whether a student has achieved a defined level of mastery
Criterion-referenced tests compare student performance to a fixed standard or criterion, indicating whether mastery has been achieved.
A teacher notices that students who perform well on classroom tests tend to score poorly on a new assessment. This suggests a possible problem with the new assessment's:
Answer: Concurrent validity
Concurrent validity is the degree to which scores on a new assessment correlate with scores on an existing, established measure of the same construct.
Norm groups in standardized testing are used to:
Answer: Provide a comparison population for interpreting individual scores
A norm group is a representative sample of the population used to standardize scores so that an individual's performance can be compared to peers.
Which of the following BEST describes a performance-based assessment?
Answer: Students demonstrate a skill or create a product to show competency
Performance-based assessments require students to actively demonstrate skills or create products, going beyond selecting answers to showing what they can do.
Standard error of measurement (SEM) is used to:
Answer: Estimate the range within which a student's true score likely falls
SEM quantifies the amount of error in a test score, allowing construction of a confidence interval around an observed score to estimate the true score.