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25 terms to know for MTE/562

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variables of interest   variables such as, how much a student knows about a subject, how well can they follow operations, how positive are they about a subject.  
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Assessment   a broad term used to describe kinds of testing and measuring, in the case of teachers, measuring or testing to a student's status.  
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Achievement tests   a measurement of the knowledge and/or skills a student possesses.  
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Alignment   the substantive agreement between two or more of the following: curriculum, instruction, and assessment.  
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alternate assessments   meaningfully different tests intended for students with disabilities so that more valid inferences can be made about the students than if the original test were used.  
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alternate-form reliability   the consistency of measured results yielded by different forms of the same test.  
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diagnostic assessment   assessment which is conducted before the teacher instructs to see where the students are in the knowledge of the material.  
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analytic scoring   a method of scoring a student's responses involving the application of multiple evaluative criteria.  
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anonymity-enhancement procedures   the steps a teacher takes so that a student accurately perceives his or her responses to self-report affective assessment inventories are truly untraceable.  
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binary-choice item   a test item requiring a student to select one or two presented options.  
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Blind-scoring   when student's tests are judged without the judges' knowing whether a test was completed as a pretest or a posttest.  
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classification-consistency   a representation of the proportion of students who are placed in the same classification category on two testing occasions of by using two forms of the same test.  
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construct-related evidence of validity   empirical evidence that 1 supports the posited existence of a hypothetical construct and indicates an assessment device does, in fact, measure that construct.  
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content-related evidence of validity   evidence indication that an assessment instrument suitably reflects the content domain it is supposed to represent.  
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correlation coefficient   a numerical index reflecting the nature and strength of the relationship between two variables.  
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criterion-referenced measurement   an approach to assessment in which a student's test performance is interpreted according to how much of a defined assessment domain has been mastered by the student  
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criterion-related evidence of validity   evidence demonstrating that systematic relationship of test scores on a predictor test to a predicted criterion variable  
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criterion variable   an external variable that serves as the to-be-predicted exam, such as an aptitude test.  
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disparate impact   If test scores of different groupware decidedly different, this is described as an assessment procedure having a disparate impact on test takers.  
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distractor analysis   Scrutiny of a student's empirical performances on the different answer options contained in multiple-choice and matching items.  
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educational defensibility guideline   a guideline for test preparation stipulating that no test-preparation practice should increase a student's test scores without simultaneously increasing his or her mastery of the assessment domain represented by the test.  
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empirical item improvement   improving an item's quality based on a student's performance on the item.  
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formative assessment   a planned process in which assessment-elicits evidence of students' status is used by teachers to adjust their ongoing instructional procedures of by students to adjust their current learning tactics.  
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grain-size   the breadth of a curricular aim, ranging form small grain-size aims.  
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halo effect   the error of allowing a test-scorer's overall impression of a student to influence any criterion-by-criterion evaluations of the student's response to a test.  
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holistic scoring   the method of scoring a student's constructed responses that calls for the synthesized application of multiple evaluative criteria.  
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hypergeneral rubrics   scoring guides whose evaluative criteria are described in excessively general hence, dysfunctional terms  
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