Standardized Assessments

• Used to compare a student's performance with that of peers who are similar in age or grade level

• Data-driven based on mathematically computed and summarized using scores (e.g. percentiles, stanines, standard scores)

1. Tests of Aptitude

   1. Determines student's intelligent quotient (IQ)

   2. Used for diagnosis and determination for eligibility to classification categories

2. Tests of Achievement

   1. Covers basic academic skills and determines and student's eligibility for SPED services, identify students needing remedial service

   2. `Compare one groups of students to another (district, state, national forms) and evaluate the effectiveness of the teacher and curriculum

3. Norm-Referenced Tests

   1. Compare a student's performance with another

   2. Used to determine eligibilty for SPED services, but are of little value for instructional planning.

4. Criterion-Referenced Tests

   1. Describes student performance, not norm based but can be compared to norm-based results

   2. Can be standardized/ non standardized & administered alone or in a group

More authentic and often curriculum or performance based and primarily used to describe performance and instruction

• Content and performance driven, such as taking data of a student's speed and accuracy in readings

• Can include: observations, portfolios, projects, presentations

• Should be ongoing and guide instruction

Formative Assessment:

• Ongoing monitoring of student progress towards learning objectives

• Usually a low-stakes assessment

• Ex: Quiz

Summative Assessment:

• Evaluates student learning after the end of a defined unit of study

• Can be formal or informal

• A high-stakes assessment

• Ex: unit test, final exam or midterm, final paper or project

Benchmark Assessment:

• More formal than a formative assessment, but not high-stakes

• Tracks student progress and shows how well they are understanding content for a future summative assessment

Authentic Assessment:

• Measures students ability to use knowledge in a direct, relevant, often real-world way

Diagnostic Assessment:

• Determines what students already know

• Helps determine the intesity of instruction

Dynamic Assessment:

• Popualr in speech-language pathology

• Based on the Zone of Proximal Development

• Helps measure a students ability to learn new skills

• Typically involves a pretest, some type of ontervention, then a post-test

• Often called teach-test-retest

Play-Based Assessment:

• Early childhood assessment

• Used through 5 years old

• Done by observing student and using observational checklists and developmental milestones

Peer Assessment and Multi-Perspective Assessment:

• Peer Assessments: students asses each other

• Multi-Perspective Assessment: individual student and teachers collaborate to assess learning outcomes