The collection of relevant information that may be relied on for making decisions.
The application of a standard and a decision-making system to assessment data to produce judgments about the amount and adequacy of the learning that has taken place.
A scoring guide used in subjective assessments.
A set of tests standardized on the same population, so that norm-referenced scores on the several tests can be compared or used in combination for decision making.
A reliability coefficient obtained by administering the same test a second time to the same group after a time interval and correlating the two sets of scores.
An element of an item, normally the actual question, that provides the stimulus that conveys a prompt to the participant to understand and answer the question.
An area of language ability or knowledge.
A reasonable modification in an assessment instrument or its administration made to compensate for the effects of a qualified disability without altering the purpose of the assessment instrument.
A statistical measure of the spread of results. The higher the standard deviation, the greater the spread of data.
A common set of items administered with each of two or more different forms of a test for the purpose of equating the scores of these forms.
Stem
Domain
Assessment
Battery
Test-retest coefficient
Accommodation
Standard Deviation
Anchor Test
Evaluation
Rubric
