Exam 5: An Introduction to Norm-Referenced Assessment

A norm-referenced assessment allows teachers to compare the performance of one student with the average performance of other students who are of the same age or grade.

This score expresses a student's standing in standard deviation units.

An examiner should tell a student if they are getting the answers correct after each test item is administered.

Sandy recently took a test and the chronological age was calculated to be 10 years,11 months,and 23 days.Which of the following represents the correct rounded chronological age?

Which of the following is known as the experimental version of a new test?

What does it mean when a standardized assessment interpolated the data?

Why are items 1-4 not scored?

In the event that a student does not establish a basal,what should the test administrator do?

For which of the following have norm-referenced assessments been developed?

When calculating the raw score,all items that appear before the established basal are not counted because they were not administered.

When test developers create a new test and administer it to a small sample in the population and then make adjustments,this is called

What items represent the ceiling in this assessment?

A large collection of test items thought to effectively represent a particular domain or content area.

Mrs.Jones plans to administer a standardized test of achievement to Jorge,a student who speaks Spanish and requires ELL services.How can Mrs.Jones determine if the test is appropriate?

Identify at least three best practices used in administering standardized assessments to ensure test results are as accurate as possible.

Which of the following expresses the difficulty with using percentile ranks to interpret test results?

A test designed to yield average performance scores,which may be used for comparing individual student performances.

This is the name given to the form used during the test administration and for scoring.

Accommodations providing during high stakes testing should mirror those provided to students during classroom-based assessments.

Define the seven principles of universal design.