Assessment Midterm Q's

Deciding what to teach and how to teach, and communicating realistic expectations are all part of

Instructional planning

Curriculum based assessment and evaluation offer assistance with the design of effective:

Interventions

_____________ observation usually occur without predetermining the behaviors to be observed or the times and context in which to observe

Qualitative

Info consisting of non-systematic and unquantified observations

Qualitative data

Observations that have been tabulated or otherwise given numerical values

Quantitative data

Refers not the response to substantial changes in programming, either at the large groups, small group, or individual level

RTI

Students response to substantial changes in regular programming, at large group/more intensive if not

RTI

A z score is equal to

A standard deviation unit

Which of the following statements concerning test validity is most accurate:

A test cannot be valid unless it is reliable

What is meant by a computer adaptive test?

A test taken on the computer which then adapts the level to item difficulty based on student performance

____________ is a no systematic observation that might be used to develop some initial hypothesis about the function of student behavior

ABC Event

Guarantees equal opportunities to individuals with disabilities in employment, public services, transportation, state and local services

ADA

A basic ethical standard for those who assess students:

Accepting responsibility for the consequences of one's work

What an individual has learned as a result of instruction:

Achievement

A development score that indicates students raw score in terms of the average performance of individual, of a certain age in the norm group

Age equivilant

Better norm groups are selected on the basis of:

All level of socio-economic groups

__________ are substitute ways of gathering data, sometimes through portfolios or

Alternate assessments

The fundamental principle when assessing students with limited English proficiency is to:

Assess the students target abilities not their ability to use english

________ is the process of collecting info or data for the purpose of making decisions

Assessment

What an individual has learned, regardless of where it has been learned

Attainment

Which of the following is an example of rate of progress:

B. Tom increased his math calculation by 2 problems per week.

Social and Interpersonal language skills usually develop 2 years for ELL

BICS

Measurements errors that are systematic and predict. Affect a persons score in one direction; can inflate or deflate measured abilities

Bias

Language skills needed to understand instruction and abstract concepts in English; usually develop in about 5 to 6 years for ELL

CALP

Test Accountability

Changes made in presentations setting, response, or timeing/ Scheduling of a test that allow for more accurate measures. Of intended skills and knowledge around particular students to whom they are provided

In developing their own tests, teachers must use standardized procedures (such as consistent directions, criteria of scoring, and procedures) in order to be able to:

Compare student performance over time

The reliability of a test refers to its relative:

Consistency

Response to adults in authority, Warner's or strangers and male-female relations are all except ___________ factors that impact students of limited in proficiency

Cultural

Decisions about accommodation should be based on the students...

Current level of functioning and learning characteristics

Methods of assessment are ___________ when they are intended to measure student achievement within the curriculum that is being taught

Curriculum based

A standardized set of procedures that allows one to directly measure important skills in a short amount of time

Curriculum based measurement

Qualitative observation involves:

Describing important behavior without preconcieved notions

Test manuals should include:

Detailed directions and procedures

The criteria for determine a student's response to intervention should be:

Determined before interventions are implemented

Coal skills are difficult to measure with a test. This is an example of the following assessment concept:

Different skills often require different methods

Purpose

Each test must have sufficent reliability for every ______________ for which the test was intended

As part of due process, parents must receive notification before any education agency can begin a ________ that might result in the placement of students

Evaluation

Fair assessment implies that the way in which a question is asked is__________ and _________ by the student

Familiar and expected

The ___________ of a behavior is the purpose the behavior serves

Function

A CBM tool that is used to measure progress toward long term goals for skills that require coordination and maintenance of many skills

General Outcome Measure

Of the following, which is the best way to record data and to facilitate interpretations and decision making?

Graph

For a student to be declared eligible for special ed services, it must be shown that the student:

Has a diagnosed disability and need special services to achieve educational outcomes

A reauthorization of public law 94-142 addition of autism and TBI

IDEA

Students who are receiving special ed services have their account document in a __________, while students without disabilities have their Accomadations documented in a ________________

IEP, 504 plan

In deciding what content to include in a test, a guiding principle is to focus on its:

Important fact or relationships if the domain is complex

__________ refers to the education of people with and without disabilities in same classrooms.

Inclusive/inclusion

Assurances that to the max extent appropriate, the children are to be educated with children without disabilities

LRE

Provisions of education for all handicapped children act that requires the student with disabilities be placed in setting that maximize their opportunities to interact with students:

LRE (Least Restrictive Environments)

What is the primary reason given by teachers for not measuring progress frequently

Lack of time

A continuum of evidence based system wide practice to support a rapid response to academic and behavior needs with frequent data based monitoring for instructional decision to enable each student to reach high standards

MTSS

The arithmetic average of the scores in a distribution; the sum of score divided

Mean

The score that divides the top 50% from the bottom 50%

Median

Score obtained most frequently

Mode

A critical recommendation is that all assessments be conducted in the students native language or___________

Mode of communication

One component of the IEP provisions is that...

Multidisciplinary teams develop IEP in meetings with parents

__________ is the major federal law which governs the delivery of elementary and secondary education

NCLB

Tests of ability that attempt to reduce the effects of language and culture are known as ________ tests

Nonverbal

Scoring that is based on observable qualities and not influenced by emotion

Objective scoring

Target behaviors should be defined precisely in

Observable or objective terms

___________ involves looking at the way students perform a variety of tasks in a variety of settings, the meaning of the performance, and likely explanations for performance

Observation

Contrived Observation

Observation conducted in situations that have been set up before the student is introduced to situation

An issue of fairness concerns whether the student has had a ____________ to learn content of test

Opportunity

Repeating directions for students is an example of which type of accommodation?

Presentation

A special testing format that is well suited to the assesses of direct performance, usually brief, timed and frequently administered assessment that can be used for any purpose:

Probe

Each of the following is a characteristic of effective progress monitoring tools, except:

Probes must be time consuming to administer, score and interpret

Collection of data that is used to determine the impact of instruction and intervention over a short period of time

Progress monitoring

The major kinds of decisions for which assessments are given include:

Progress monitoring, screening, instruction planning, eligibility of special education

In norm reference testing, the norm sample is used for:

Providing a basis for comparison

Each test must have sufficient reliability for every _________ for which the test was intended

Purpose

The extent of possibility to generalize from an observation of a specific behavior observed at a specific time, by specific person to observations conducted on similar behavior, at different times, or by different observers.

Reliability

2 major uses of curriculum-based measurement procedures include:

Screening and monitoring progress

Teachers need tests that are _________ to small changes in knowledge

Sensitive

Process of using same materials, procedures, and scoring standards for each test taker each time given, allows for comparison of performance of several students on a skill

Standardization

Unless a test is administered according to ________ the results are invalid

Standardized procedures

Behaviors that call attentions to a student because of their repetitive, non-functional nature, and that will result in student being considered weird by fellow students

Stereotypical behaviors

Which of the following is the best example of inclusive education?

Student with and without disabilities being educated in the same classroom

Scoring that is not based on observable qualities but relies on personal impressions

Subjective scoring

Decision Making Rules

Suggests change in instruction and intervention is warranted (4 point/ parallel)

__________ monitoring involves assessing student knowledge after instruction over large amounts of content or several weeks of instruction

Summative

Differentiated Instruction/Differentiation

Teachers can use ________________________to match the content and instructional approaches used to the learning needs of their students

Each of the following is an advantage of frequent measure of student progress except:

Teachers more effectively apply data

Changes that are made that alter the measurement of the intended skills and knowledge that is highly questionable whether the test results accurately represent students skills and knowledge

Test modifications

When interpreting test results, it is important to remember:

Tests are samples of behavior and different test sample different behaviors

A test which use principles of ______ can improve accessibility so that appropriate testing for all students is promoted.

Universal design

Degree to evidence and theory support __________ , does testing process lead to correct inferences about a specific person in a specific situation for a purpose

Validity

One evidence based principle of effective instruction is that_______ in instructional presentation enhances outcome

Variety

______________ and _______________ are important decisions made in instructional planning

What to teach and how to teach

Interventions

curriculum based assessment and curriculum based eveluation offer assistance within the design of effective __________