Chapter 9: Assessment and Data-Based Decision-Making

An assessment in general terms is any method teachers or professional use to gain information about a student. The reasons why we assess students are varied. When identifying a students' strengths and weaknesses what is a commonly used assessment?

diagnostic measures

When a teacher suggests and allows a student to have an extension on an assignment and it can be completed later or during a longer period, what type of adaptation is the teacher using?

time and schedule adaptations

A cumulative folder is a folder that contains students' work samples.

False

If a student has trouble marking a bubble scan sheet for an assessment they can use an output adaptation

True

If a teacher takes time to conference with a student when assessing their work and asks the student how they got their answer, they are using what type of assessment technique?

active

Progress monitoring tools are used to assess student growth over a period of time or for an individual lesson. What type of progress monitoring tool is used quarterly, compares peers, and assesses whether or not students are eligible for interventions?

benchmarks

What is it called when teachers have to create assessments that ensure that the information being tested and measured comes from reliable sources and meets basic statistical data?

content validity

What is the most common type of work sample review?

error analysis

Alternate assessments are grade-level assessments covered by the typical student.

false

When students are given an informal reading inventory, that test typically consists of what type of activities for overall assessment?

graded word lists that students can read

When teachers make comparisons between students the teaching is making what type of comparison?

inter-individual

When a teacher is using raw scores, standard scores, percentiles, and equivalents what type of assessment is most likely being given to the student?

norm-referenced

When teachers are looking at assessments and focusing on the students and their responses they can conduct an assessment by looking at a completed worksheet and analyze what the student wrote to answer the problem. This is called what type of assessment?

passive process

What type of bias is being displayed if the teacher lets stereotypes influence the rating like grading a paper high just because the student has a disability and tried hard?

personal

When a teacher collects samples of student work and places notes on each sample for future review this is called creating what for a student?

portfolio

When a teacher is looking to find out the rationale behind a students' response and how they solved the answer that is called what type of assessment?

process

When looking at grading practices it is important to recognize bias. What type of bias is being displayed if the teacher scores all the papers negatively and gives everyone low scores?

severity

Effective instruction requires that teachers check for understanding often and in many different ways

true

Watching how a student performs is called an observation.

true

If assessments and environments allow for equal access to the curriculum by removing barriers to learning what theory is being used?

universal design