Educational Psych Chapter 14
The chapter-opening vignette addresses indicators that are often assessed in state licensure exams. Reread the chapter opening vignette and then respond to the following questions. Ms. Tranh tells Mr. and Mrs. McKay that Anita's grade equivalent score on the CAT is 6.9. What does this mean?
Anita has done as well as an end-of-year sixth grader.
The primary advantage of standardized tests over teacher-made tests is that standardized tests:
allow accurate comparisons of individuals or groups of students from different classes based on the same set of criteria.
The primary purpose of the Smarter Balanced and PARCC tests is to:
assess student progress toward college- and career-ready standards.
Ms. Markus wants to know whether the students in her advanced algebra class have met the learning goals she set for them at the start of the year. The best test for her to use to assess their knowledge is
a criterion-referenced achievement test.
In a school with a high number of students with disabilities and English learners, standardized tests should be:
given to everyone, with appropriate accommodations for students who are legally entitled to them.
The original intent in developing the Common Core State Standards was to:
have all students in the United States working toward the same educational outcomes.
The primary use for value-added assessments such as the EVAAS is to:
measure the degree to which the school helped students move forward from whatever baseline level of learning they start with.
Research suggests that students with higher scores on the SAT tend to have higher grades in the first year of college. This relationship provides:
predictive evidence of the test's validity.
If Anita scored consistently on the CAT over multiple applications, it can be said that the test has
reliability.
When educators talk about the "accountability movement," they mean that:
school personnel are expected to establish higher standards and are responsible for ensuring that students achieve them.
One important change that occurred when the NCLB Act was replaced by the ESSA legislation is that:
states have more autonomy and can set up their own assessment and accountability systems.
The 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) mandates that:
students must take standardized assessments of reading and math every year from third to eighth grade, and one year in high school.
Given the importance of standardized test scores, many teachers and researchers feel that it is important to help students become "test-wise." One of the best ways to do this ethically is to:
teach students test-taking strategies and ways to deal with test anxiety.
If a student takes a test more than once and has very different scores each time, we can conclude that the test is most likely:
unreliable.
In art class, Ms. Montaigne gives her class a test designed to measure students' ability to separate figures from foreground. She knows from past experience that this test measures exactly what it is intended to measure. We can conclude the test has:
validity.
