FRHD 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Quality Records, Specific Performance, Takers
CHAPTER 7
Defining Assessment and Testing
• Assessment
o Determine the development of a child
o Asses social, emotional, and physical development
o Ongoing
o Collecting and evaluating information about the performance of an individual, the
quality of a program, or the effectiveness of an activity
• Types of assessment
o Formative
▪ Daily basis
▪ Help adjust instruction and make changes for individual students
o Summative
▪ End of a unit or topic
▪ Adjustments can no longer be made to instruction
• Types of tests
o Achievement
▪ Mastery over a certain body of information
o Criterion-referenced
▪ Specific performance level
o Developmental
▪ Age-related, norm-referenced of behaviours and skills compared to others the
same age
o Norm-referenced
▪ Compares test takers performance to others in a specific group
o Readiness
▪ Level of preparedness for a specific academic or preacademic program
o Reliability
▪ Degree to which test scores are consistent, dependable, or repeatable
o Screening
▪ Identify children who may be in need of special services
o Standardized
▪ Composed of empirically selected items that is to be used in a specific way
o Validity
▪ Degree to which a test measures what it is supposed to measure
Testing Young Children
• Screening test
o Deterie hild’s aility to lear skills
• Developmental screening
o Determine what children can do compared to others their age
• Readiness test
o Recognize letters and numerals
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