Procedure designed to test what a student actually does in the school or classroom curriculum
Formal standardized tests
Curriculum-based measurement
Standardized tests that compare a child’s performance to that of other children of the same age
Commercially prepared tests that have been used with and standardized on large groups of students
Informal assessment measures
Progress monitoring
Procedure to measure a student’s academic performance and to evaluate the effectiveness of instruction
Ways of evaluating performance that are not formal standardized tests
Measure the student’s abilities in specific skills
Norm-referenced tests
Criterion-referenced tests
