Theme: Options in Assessment and Standardized Testing
Overview of Concepts:
- Assessment Planning
- Developing Classroom Tests
- Performance Assessment
- Standardized Tests and Scores
- Testing and Accountability
Learning Objectives:
- Describe how assessment is used in educational decision making
- Explain why developing an assessment plan is important
- Discuss the importance of grading procedures
- Discuss the importance of validity, reliability, fairness/equivalence, and practicality in test construction
- Explain how test blueprint is used to develop a good test
- Discuss the usefulness of various test item formats and scoring considerations
- Describe the benefits of item analysis
- Define performance assessment and examples of formative and summative assessment
- Define authentic assessment and the characteristics
- Describe the purpose of standardized tests
- Explain the difference between criterion-referenced and norm-referenced
- Explain normal distribution
- Explain validity and reliability of standardized tests
- Explain how NCLB is considered high-stakes, and 3 problems with the law
- Explain how teachers can avoid the 6 negative outcomes of high-stakes testing
- Explain how accommodations improve validity of test scores
- Explain the difference between test fairness and test bias
