FTCE Professional Education; Competency 4

Constructed-response questions require that the student construct or create something to answer the question rather than choosing from a list.

Convergent questions have only one simple answer and do not require a constructed response

A cloze activity is a fill-in-the-blank assignment with a word bank.

Running records are used to assess reading performance as a student reads from a benchmark book. Over time, running records provide insight into why a student may be struggling with reading comprehension or fluency.

a standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired, usually as a result of classroom instruction.

many educators prefer the description "alternative assessment" to describe alternatives to traditional, standardized, norm- or criterion-referenced traditional paper-and-pencil testing.

a type of informal evaluation; teacher observation of student performance and over time they see a pattern growth.

a type of rubric scoring that separates that separates the whole into categories of criteria that are examined one at a time.

the process of observing learning; describing, collecting, recording, scoring, and interpreting information about a student's or one's own learning.

evaluating by asking for the behavior that the learning is intended to produce; mirroring and measuring student performance in a "real-world" context

student performance standards

a test intended to establish that a student has met established minimum standards of skills and knowledge

a test that results in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area; FCAT

curriculum's scope and sequence matches a testing program;s evaluation measures

the knowledge of one's own thinking processes and strategies, and the ability to consciously reflect and act on the knowledge of cognition to modify those processes and strategies

a test in which a student's or a group's performance is compared to that of a norm group

a test of the ability to apply knowledge in a real-life setting; rubric or analytic scoring

the measure of consistency for an assessment instrument

an objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner

the test measures the desired performance and appropriate inferences can be drawn from the results

evaluation at the conclusion of a unit or units of instruction or an activity or plan, to determine or judge student skills and knowledge or effectiveness of a plan or activity; FCAT, EOC, end of a unit, chapter test