Assessment For Education

• Was diagnosed if a significant discrepancy existed between the child’s measured intellectual ability (usually on an intelligence test) and the level of achievement that could reasonably be expected from the child

  in one or more areas

  Specific learning disability
• “A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which disorder may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations.”

  
  

  Specific learning disabilities
• A multilevel prevention framework applied in educational settings that is designed to maximize student achievement through the use of data that identifies students at risk for poor learning outcomes combined with evidence-based intervention and teaching that is adjusted on the basis of student responsiveness

  Response to Intervention Model
• The classroom environment wherein all students are being taught whatever it is that the teacher is teaching

  First level
• A small group of learners who have failed to make adequate progress in the classroom have been segregated for special teaching

  Second level
• The use of interventions tailored to students’ individual needs that are selected by a multidisciplinary team of school professionals

  Problem solving model
• Individually tailored and administered instruction for students who have failed to respond to the second level of intervention.

  Third level
• Mandated that no single measure be used “as the sole criterion for determining whether a child is a child with a disability."

  IDEA
• A multidisciplinary approach to evaluation that assimilates input from relevant sources.


  Integrative assessment
• It is an approach to assessment that departs from reliance on, and can be contrasted to, fixed (so-called “static”) tests. This encompasses an approach to exploring learning potential that is based on a test intervention-retest model

  Dynamic assessment
• Explored differences between deficits identified by standardized tests that seemed to be due to differences in education versus mental deficiency

  Budoff
• Designed to yield information about the nature and amount of intervention required to enhance a child’s performance

  Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD
• The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by individual problem-solving, and the level of potential development as determined through problem-solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peer

  Zone of Proximal Development
• Are designed to measure the degree of learning that has taken place as a result of exposure to a relatively defined learning experience.

  Achievement Tests
• One that adequately samples the targeted subject matter and reliably gauges the extent to which the examinees have learned it.

  Sound Achievement Test
• Tests that cover a number of academic areas are typically divided into several subtest

  Achievement batteries
• Based on the premise that knowledge may be obtained through independent study and sources other than formal schooling

  College Level Examination Program (CLEP)
• Another service designed to assess achievement and skills learned outside the classroom

  Proficiency Examination Program (PEP)
• Test intended for use with examinees age 17 and older who have not completed eight years of formalized schooling.


  Adult Basic Learning Examination (ABLE)
• Refer to assessment of information acquired from teachings at school

  Curriculum-based assessment (CBA)
• Informal learning or life experiences

  Aptitude tests
• Typically used to make predictions

  Prognosis test
• Questionnaire on which marks are made to indicate the presence or absence of a specified behavior, thought, event, or circumstance


  Checklist
• A stands for activity (or muscle tone), P for pulse (or heart rate), G for grimace (or reflex irritability), A for appearance (or color), and R for respiration.

  APGAR
• A typically nonsystematic, relatively brief, and “off-the-record” assessment


  Informal evaluation
• May also be administered if the respondents are believed to have sufficient insight into their own behavior with regard to variables such as interpersonal relations, self-esteem, and sensation seeking.

  Self report of personality
• Refers to children who have documented difficulties in one or more psychological, social, or academic areas and for whom intervention is or may be require

  At risk
• A test battery that assesses the development of the reading and mathematics skills important in the early stages of formal school learning

  The Metropolitan Readiness Tests
• It has value in helping students decide whether further academics, vocational training, or some other course of action would be most advisable. Data is also used by organizations and government agencies in determining who will receive scholarship grants and other such award

  Scholastic aptitude test
• This long-standing rite of passage for students seeking admission to graduate school has a General Test form as well as specific subject tests

  Graduate record examination
• This is a 100-item, multiple-choice analogy test that draws not only on the examinee’s ability to perceive relationships but also on general intelligence, vocabulary, and academic learning

  Miller analogies test
• Consists of four sections: Verbal Reasoning, Physical Sciences, Writing Sample, and Biological Sciences


  Medical college admission test
• A tool used to identify areas of deficit to be targeted for intervention

  Diagnostic test
• A standardized test that can provide useful diagnostic insights with regard to the mathematical abilities of children from preschool to college age

  Stanford Diagnostic Mathematics Test, Fourth Edition (SDMT-4)
• A test kit that generally contains two types of tests: those that measure abilities related to academic success and those that measure educational achievement – Allow for normative comparisons as well as individual evaluation of strength and weakness

  Psychoeducational test battery
• Historically referred to any type of assessment that requires the examinee to do more than choose the correct response

  Performance assessment
• A work sample designed to elicit representative knowledge, skills, and values from a particular domain of study

  Performance task
• A form of performance assessment that refers to the evaluation of one’s work samples

  Portfolio assessment
• An evaluation of relevant, meaningful tasks that may be conducted to evaluate learning of academic subject matter but that demonstrate the student’s transfer of that study to real-world activities

  Authentic assessment