Assessment Test
According to the decision-rule how many data points should be below the goal lie to determine that a student is failing to make sufficient progress?
4
The standard deviation of scores for a sample of children is 16, and the arithmetic mean is 100. The distribution of scores is a normal distribution. This means that approximately 34% of the cases will have scores between...
84 and 100
A multi-tiered system may be best conceptualized as
A funnel, in which narrower parts of the funnel correspond to more intervention services
Functional Behavior Assessment
A procedure that systematically assesses the purpose of problematic behavior and the conditions under which that behavior tends to occur
Partial-interval recording
A sampling procedure in which a behavior is sacred if it occurs one or more times within an interval is called
What is true about test validity
A test cannot be valid unless it is reliable
Which derived scores should be avoided when possible
Age equivalents
Criterion-referenced tests measure...
An individual's performance in comparison with a group
The fundamental principle when assessing students with limited English proficiency is to
Assess the student's target abilities, not their ability to use English
A test was administered to Marcy to determine whether she has a hearing problem. For the norms to be adequate for this purpose, the norm sample should have included
At least 100 children in the same grade as Marcy
The best way to think about benchmarks is as
clocks at mile markers in a marathon
In deciding what content to include in a test, a guiding principle is to focus on
important facts or relationships if the domain is complex
Graphs and aimlines are helpful during the implementation of interventions because they
indicate rate and direction of behavior change
Student performance data is primarily used in an MTSS (multi-tiered systems of support) to
inform the type of instruction a student needs to be successful
An achievement test will provide misleading information if it is not
reflective of the curriculum's content
Intelligence test are not used for
social emotion functioning
Picture-vocabulary tests should not be used to make placement decisions because
they assess only one component of intelligence
CBMs fit very well into MTSS and RTI models in particular because
they can serve both screening and progress monitoring purposes
Almost any matching question can be
transformed into a multiple-choice item
If one is interested in using a reading test to plan instruction for an individual student, the most precise and helpful information will be obtained from a
Criterion-referebced, individually administered test
Response to adults in authority, wariness of strangers, and male-female relationships are all examples of ____ factors that impact assessment of students with limited English proficiency
Cultural
If a test normed in 1990 was administered in 1992, the test norms would probably be considered to be
Current
If a student performs 30 words correct per minute above the fall benchmark then shows no growth, performing equal to the benchmark in the winter, what is the best action to take?
D
Nonsense Word Fluency is a curriculum based measure that measures
Early reading
Which variable would best be assessed using a nominal scale of measurement?
Ethnicity
Response to intervention is implemented in
General and special education
What is the best way to record data to facilitate interpretation and decision making?
Graph
The mean age in months for preschool children was reported as 25.5. The standard deviation for Group 1 was 3.4 and for Group 2, 4.9. From this we may conclude that
Group 2 is more variable than group 1
Current educational level, goals and objectives, LRE, and related services are important components of
IEP
When are schools required to have parental consent to collect data?
If a change in educational placement is being considered
The ultimate goal of assessment is
Improved outcomes for all students
For norms to be representative, they should include
Individuals with relevant characteristics and experience
Assessment data are most appropriately used to
Make decisions about students
Two students with limited English proficiency who speak Spanish
May or may not share a common culture or history
A major advantage of group-administered multiple-skill achievement is that they
Provide considerable information in a relatively short time
The best example of an ordinal scale is
Ranks in military service
What is not an advantage of CBMs
Reliable diagnostic information
Grouping
Standard deviation, variance, and range
The best example of an equal-interval scale is
Temperature
When interpreting test results, it is important to remember
Tests are samples of behavior, and different tests sample different behaviors
When a teacher follow up a group-administered achievement test ... the patterns of errors made by individual students, a basic assumption ... been made is that
The content of the test was sufficiently dense
When using an interval scale...
The difference between a score of 90 and 100 is the same as the difference between 70 and 80
Median
The middle score
Mode
The number that occurs the most often
Because it is true that a person's true abilities can change between two administrations of a test, it is generally true that
The shorter the time between the two administrations, the higher the reliability
The results of an achievement test are considered to be invalid if
The teacher has not taught the content being tested
The best way to assess reading comprehension is
To give readers access to the material and have them paraphrase what they have read
To determine if student should be given additional assessments...
Use a screening test
Latency
When a behavior is measured in terms of the length of time between a signal to perform and the beginning of the behavior, the characteristic being measured is its
A T-score has...
a mean of 50 and standard deviation of 10
