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| Evaluation of accomplishment or the degree of learning that has taken place, usually with regard to an academic area |
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| A score on a rating scale developed by a physician Virginia Apgar that embodies a simple, rapid method of evaluating newborn infants |
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| A test that usually focuses more on informal as opposed to formal learning experiences and is designed to measure both learning and inborn potential for the purpose of making predictions about the test taker's future performance |
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| Defined in different ways by different school districts, but in general reference to funcitioning that is deficient and possibly in need of intervention |
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| Also known as performance based assessment, evaluation on relevant, meaningful task that may be conducted to examine learning of academic subject matter but that demonstrates the student's transfer of that study to real-worldactivities. |
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| A questionnaire formatted to allow a person to mark items indicative of information such as the presence or absence of a specified behavior, thought, event or circumstance |
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curriculum-based assessment (CBA) |
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| A general term referring to school-based evaluations that clearly and faithfully reflect what is being taught |
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Curriculum-based Measurement (CBM) |
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| A type of curriculum-based assessment characterized by the use of standarddized measurements procedures to derive local norms to be used in the evaluation of a student performance on curriculum-based tasks. |
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diagnostic information |
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| In educational contexts, test or other data used to pinpoint a student's difficulties for the purpose of remediating them. |
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| A typically non systematic relatively brief, and off the record assessment leading to the formation of an opinion or attitude, conducted by any person in any way for a reson, in an unofficial context and not subject to the same ethics or standards as evaluations by a professional |
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| Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children |
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| Learning Potential Assessment Device |
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| A pretest or routing test, usually for determining the most appropraite level of test |
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| A method of obtaining evaluation related information about an individual by polling that individual's friends, classmates, work colleagues or other peers. |
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Performance Assessment |
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| An evaluation of performance tasks according to criteria developed by experts from the domain of study tapped by those tasks |
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| In general, a work sample designed to elicit representatitive knowledge skills and values from a particular domain of study; (2) in employment settins an instrument or procedure that requires the assessee to demonstrate certain job-related skills or abilities under conditions identical or anlogous to conditions on the job |
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| A work sample referred to as "portfolio asssessment" when used as a tool in an evaluation or diagnositic process. |
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Portfolio Assessment |
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| A work sample used as a tool in an evaluatiive or diagnostic process |
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| A tool of assessment used to predict; sometimes synonymous with aptitude test (hint! this is not the answer to aptitude test!) |
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Psychoeducational test battery |
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| A packaged kit containing tests that measure educational achievement and abilities related to academic success |
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| A system of ordered numerical or verbal descriptions on which judgements about the presence/absence or magnititude of a particular trait, attitude, emotion or other variable are indicated by raters, judges, examiners or the assessee |
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| A tool of assessment designed to evaluate whether an individual has the requesites to begin a program or perform a task |
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| A graphic representation of peer appriasal data or other interpersonal information |
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Specific Learning Disability (SLD) |
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| A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using language, spoke or written that may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell or perform mathematical calculations. |
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| A set of co-occurring emotional and behavioral problems |
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| Theoretical underpinnings of this approach can be traced to the world of Budoff, Feurestin and _____________ |
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Evaluative Information |
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| Test or other data used to make judgements such as class placement, pass-fail, and admit-reject decisions; |
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| The process by which an individual's thoughts, behaviors, values, identity and world view develop in relation to the general thinking, behavior, customs and values of a particular cultural group. |
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Acquiescent response style |
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| A way of responding to test items characterized by agreement with whatever is presented. |
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Measures Extroversion/Neuroticism/Openness/Agreeableness/Conscientiousness
Extraversion: Introversion vs Extraversion
Neuroticism: Low anxiety/high anxiety
Openness: tough-mindedness/receptivity
Conscientiousness: low self control/high self control |
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Control Group (MMPI) |
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| 1) in an experiment the untreated group 2) in test development by means of empirical criterion keying, a group of randomly selected testtakers who do not necessarily have in common the shared characteristics of the standardized sample. |
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| The standard against which a test or a test score is evaluated; this standard may take many forms, including a specific behavior or set of behaviors |
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| A reference group of test takers who share characteristics and whose responses to test items serve as a standard by which items will be included or discarded from the final version of a scale; the shared characteristic of the criterion group will vary as a function of the nature and scope of the test being deeveloped |
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demoralization (as used in the MMPI-2 RF) |
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| persistent failure to cope with internally or externally induced stresses. Characteristic features are feelings of impotence, isolation and despair. |
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empirical criterion keying |
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| The process of using criterion groups to develop key items, where the scoring or keying of items has been demonstrated empirically to differentiate among groups of test takers |
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Error of Central Tendency |
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| Less than accurate rating or evaluation by a rater or judge due to that rater's general tendency to make ratings at or near the midpoint of the scale |
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Forced-choice format |
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| A type of item sometimes used in personality tests wherein each of 2 or more choices has been predetermined to be equal in social desirability |
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| Also referred to as leniency error, a less than accurate rating or evaluation by a rater |
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| A type of rating error wherein the rater views the object of the rating with extreme favor and tends to bestow ratings inflated in a positive direction; a set of circumstances resulting in a rater's tendency to be positively disposed and insufficiently critical. |
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| 1) a process by which an individual assumes a pattern of behavior that is characteristic of other people; 2) thoughts, feelings or behavior on the part of one person that resonates in some familiar way with the the experiences of another |
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| A set of cognitive and behavioral characteristics by which individuals define themselves as members of a particular group; one's sense of self. |
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ideographic approach |
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impression management |
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