Sept. 28, 2011

1. Assessment - procedures used to attain information about student performance.
2. Formative Assessment - tells you what is happening, it is for learning, assessing student learning DURING instruction.
3. Summative Assessment - the end of unit assessment, summary or learning, comprehensive view of what the student has learned
4. Common Assessment - within a group, taking the same assessment.  CFA's that teachers do in elementary schools through SuccessNet are an example of CFAs
5. Diagnostic Assessment - determines existing knowledge, skills, attitudes, interests, and needs.  Usually given individually, but does not have to be.
6. Pre  Assessment - an assessment given  before the actual lesson, unit is taught.  Done before the teaching to evaluate the students learning and knowledge
7. Post Assessment - evaluation of someone after the unit/lesson has been taught
8. Self Assessment - delierate thought by the learner about what the learner is learning and how they are learning it.
9. Performance Assessments (task) - application of knowledge, skills, and work habits through the performance of tasks that are meaningful and engaging. 
10. Open vs. Closed tasks - open = when you are assessing kids and there is more than one answer closed = there is only one answer
11. Interim Assessments - inbetween formative and summative assessments.  The CFAs, M-COMPS and M-CAPS are examples of these types of assessments.
12. Rubric(s) - student/teacher run assessment that breaks apart  areas of learning and assigns a score based on finishing or understanding the material
13. Bias - a test which is swayed to a particular group of people
14. Curriculum-Based Measures (CBM) - a method of monitoring student progress that is quick, easy and powerful (example: CFAs, Aimsweb, Dibles)
15. Acuity Analysis  (materials) - An in depth analysis.  You need a test, report for class to analyze, a mastery report for your class, and test scores to report for your class. Examples: Common misconceptions kids might have and practices that they can do, or what I understand and what I don't understand
16. Measures of Central Tendency - a measure that tells you where the middle of a bunch of data lies.  The most common are the mean, median, mode.  The mean is used the most.
17. Measures of Spread - tells how much data sample is spread out or scattered.  Its the range, variability and standard deviation
18. Mean - the average.  The sum of values, divided by the number of values.
19. Median - the middle value in the list of number when listed in numerical order
20. Mode - the number that is listed most often
21. Range - the difference between the highest and lowest values in a set
22. Variability - describes how spread out or closely clustered a set of data is
23. Standard Deviation - shows how much variation or dispersion there is from the average
24. Normal Distribution - the most average distributions, it is the bell curve, your data must add up to 100% of your participants
25. Reliability - no matter who administers the test, you always get the same results.  Does not have to be 100%.  You can't always have the same conditions.
26. Validity - testing what it says it's testing.  Vocabulary on a vocabulary test.
27. Confidence Interval - estimated range of values, which is likely to include and unknown population parameter.  You would not say 95% of the people will pass because that is not really feasible.  How confident are you are that the test will truly reflect what the student knows.
28. Standard Error or Measurement - the range of scores within which an individuals true score is likely to fall.  Measuring someones height is an example of this.
29. Criterion - Referenced Test - a test that measures mastery of concepts or skills, comparing students scores to set performance standard. can be used to predict success (many teachers would argue that) CBMs can be a predictor of CRT scores.
30. Norm Referenced Test - tests in which the individual scores are compared with average scores of others. Example: ACT and SAT scores are compared to the "normal" group. Comparing individual students to the "normal" group.
31. Fidelity - the accurate and consistent application of an agreed upon procedure (everyone that administers the test is on the same page.)
32. Standardized Assessment - a test that is administered and scored in a consistent or standard manner. Examples: everything is the same.....questions, tests, procedures
33. Raw Scores - the total correct responses on a test. 
34. Percentiles - a score that represents the percent of other scores that are equal to or lower than it.  For example, if you are in the 85 percentile.  85% of participants scores are equal to or lower than your score
35. Stanines - a method of scaling test scores on a nine point standard scale with a mean of 5 and a standard deviation of 2.  
36. Grade Equivalents - a score that is determined by comparing an individual's score on a standardized test to the scores of students in a particular age group.  The first digit represents the grade and the second digit represents the month of that school year.
37. General Outcome Measures (GOM) - powerful measures that are simple accurate and efficient indicators of a performance that guide and inform a variety of decisions.  Example: CBM
38. Standard Scores - a standard score is derived from raw scores using the norming information gathered when the test was developed.  Instead of reflecting a student's rank compared to other, standard scores indicate how far above or below the average (the "mean") an individual score falls, using a common scale, such as one with an "average" of 100.
39. Progress Monitoring - assessing student performance and the effectiveness of instruction often
40. Strategic Monitoring - frequent assessments given once a month to students who are at tier 2 to monitor achievement and improvement.  Example: Aimsweb...doing the progress monitor once a month.
41. Feedback - the return of information about a person's performance of a task.  Example: "Lisa, nice job on your powerpoint.  I liked,,,,,"
42. Baseline - a minimum or starting point used for comparison.
43. Tier 3 - a customized learning intervention for specialized support. Example and IEP (individualized education plan)...resource
44. Tier 2 - identify an intervention strategy and take action.  Example: progress monitor using CBMs
45. Tier 1 - provide access to and progress in the general education curriculum.  Example:  differentiation in the curriculum.  Audio software, reducing assignments.  Best practices to the general curriculum.
46. Outliers - an observation that is numerically distant from the rest of the data.  Examples:  Kids that are above or below the whisker plot 
47. Longitudinal Study - a study that involves repeated observations of the same variables over long periods of time.