Student Assessment Test 2

Some are developed by states, some are bought from developers, some are national, most are externally mandated

• 1. To document failed education
• 2. used for education reform

• Content standards – the what
• Performance standards – the how well
• Authentic assessment – real world testing
• Alternative assessment – no multiple choice Performance assessment –actually doing a task

• 1. Test Anxiety 
• 2. Labeling
• 3. Damage student self concept
• 4. Pygmalion effect

• 1. Cheap
• 2. Drive the content
• 3. Easy to Implement
• 4. Easy answers, easy to document

Measurement is quantitative (uses #’s)

Assessment is qualitative and quantitative

• (Qualitative always has some
• value judgment

Placement – duh

Formative – testing along the way

Diagnostic – duh

• Summative – total assessment at the end of
• the day

Norm – compared against peers

Criterion – compared against a standard

• 1. Do the specify important parts of the course
• 2. Are they politically feasible
• 3. Are they realistic
• 4. Are you being rational

• 1. General
• 2. Specific

• unclear directions
• big words
• ambiguity
• bad table of specifications
• poorly drawn inferences of results
• bad questions 
• short tests
• poorly constructed tests

• under-representation
• irrelevant varriance

• Content:Do test items adequately
• represent the universe of possible questions

Construct:construct is the characteristic or trait we are trying to measure. So, construct validity is how well a measurement or test measures whatever the subject it is

Criterion:How well does a test:Predict future performance, or Estimate a student’s ability on a similar construct 

Consequences

The consistency of a measurement

• X = Obtained or observed score (fallible)
• T = True score (reflects stable characteristics)
• E = Measurement error (reflects random error)

• 1. Test-ReTest
• 2. Equivalent Forms
• 3. Test-ReTest with Equivalent forms
• 4. Split Halves
• 5. Coefficient Alpha
• 6. Interrater Consistency

• 1. number of items or assessment tasks
• 2. Spread of Scores
• 3. Objectivity