Assessment Dictionary (40 points)

1. Write the text book definition in the appropriate box.

2. Provide a personal definition of that word, i.e. a definition that a person

unfamiliar with assessment could understand

This project is due on the final day of class, turned in in hard copy with your
portfolio reflection.

Word/Academic/Text Book Personal/Non Academic Definition

Definition

Academic Language: The type of
language given by a teacher either
written or orally that affects a
students learning (Bookhart, 324)
How you approach your students that can affect
their work in class. For example on page 324 of
Bookhart it says I warned you about passing
notes in class. The way you approach your
students about things whether academic or not
can affect their school environment.

Achievement Targets: Skills and Goals that you want each child to achieve in
abilities that you want your students each unit
to have developed as a result of
instruction.

Advice: Guidance or recommendations Guidance given to a student when they are in a

concerning prudent future action, predicament
typically given by someone regarded
as knowledgeable or authoritative.

Analysis Reasoning Level Learning: Higher order thinking for your students involving
When a student can break down and analyzing things
analyze something by taking their
previous knowledge and
understanding what is unknown.

Assessment: The daily process by A type of evaluation to gauge how your students
which you gather information about are doing in the classroom
students progress in the learning
objectives (Bookhart, 321)

Backwards Design: A method of A type of lesson plan where you design the goals
designing educational curriculum by for the lessons before making the activities and
setting goals before choosing lessons for the lesson plan
instructional methods and forms of
assessment. Backward design of
curriculum typically involves three
stages

Classification Reasoning Level When students have multiple objects and can
Learning: When students can put put them into categories based on similarities
information into categories. and differences

Comparison Reasoning Level Learning: When a student can compare two different
When students can figure out how things and see the similarities and the
things are similar or different. differences

Dispositional Achievement Target: When students can evaluate for themselves if

When students look at the standards they have achieved the objectives for the end of
that have been set for them by their the unit
teacher, and self-evaluate whether or
not they have met those standards.

Dispositional Objectives: Your students Your students attitudes and how you can get
attitude toward wanting to learn and them more involved in the classroom
how you can get them to want to learn

Dispositions (Assessment): A tendency Your students attitudes towards having to do a

to behave in a certain way task

EdTPA: A new student teacher A certification requirement in order to become a

performance assessment developed teacher
by the Stanford Center for
Assessment, Learning and Equity
(SCALE)

Essay Assessment: A test based on An assessment given to a student where you

your ability to apply knowledge in a make them write a longer article to capture the
paper form main ideas of the story.

Essay/Extended response: An An assessment that requires the student to a

assessment that can be used to check short answer response that way you know the
that the students have learned the students understand the concepts you are trying
objectives and can apply them to teach

Evaluative Reasoning Level Learning: When a student can use a context of a problem
When students can judge how to figure out which information is important
important and valuable information is

Feedback: information about reactions Something given to a student to help them

to a person's performance of a task improve their work and is constructive
used as a basis for improvement.

Formal Assessment: Tests that A type of test that can measure how the student
measure how well a student has is achieving the learning outcomes
mastered learning outcomes.

Formative Assessment: A range of Types of assessments that are both formal and
formal and informal assessment informal
procedures conducted by teachers
during the learning process in order to
modify teaching and learning activities
to improve student attainment.

Grading: Achievement: The process or How well the student does over the course of the
fact of achieving something. year

Grading: Aptitude: A natural ability to How well a student can due on their own without
do something. needing help

Grading: Attitude: A settled way of The way a student acts when presented with
thinking or feeling about someone or new activities and lessons in the classroom
something, typically one that is
reflected in a person's behavior.

Grading: Compliance: Complying when How well a student listens and follows rules in
given a task by someone who has the classroom
authority over you

Grading: Effort: The result of an How much a student tries during the year on
attempt by a student various assignments

Informal Assessment: A procedure for An assessment that helps you make judgments
obtaining information that can be about your students behavior and what they are
used to make judgements about able to do
children's learning behavior and
characteristics or programs using
means other than standardized
instruments.

Instructional Objectives: A statement Goals you have in the classroom for each unit
about what students are to achieve by that you want the students to achieve
the end of a unit of instruction

Knowledge Level Learning: When When students have proven they have gained
students demonstrate that they have understanding of the material in the unit
gained knowledge on the subject they
are learning.

Parent-Teacher Conferences: A short A meeting with a parent where you discuss a

meeting or conference between the students progress at school
parents and teachers of students to
discuss children's progress at school
and find solutions to academic or
behavioral problems.

Performance: The action or process of How your students do in the classroom

carrying something out academically and socially

Performance Assessment: Used to A type of assessment that requires students to

assess students abilities in two do a hands on activity and what the student
different ways: performance skill and creates based off of that activity.
performance product. Performance
skill looks at a students ability to
perform, whereas performance
product assess the created product of
a student.
Performance Product Level Learning: When students show their knowledge by creating
When students can show what their a project that has the main ideas of the unit
knowledge by creating a project

Performance Skill Level Learning: When students show their knowledge in a more
When students show their knowledge creative way such as a play
by performing.

Personal Communication: Assessments given by the teacher that are types

Communication given by the teacher of projects or working with other people
to the student in the form of projects

Portfolio: A range of investments held A accumulation of work that you build up over
by a person or organization. time and often use for a future job

Pre-Assessment Strategies: A way to Assessments given to students to learn about

determine what students know about their previous knowledge to learn what they
a topic before it is taught. know

Selected Response: A type of An assessment that is true/false, multiple choice,

assessment where you choose from a or matching that makes it easier to grade then
variety of answers given to you short answer

Standard: Where you want your A baseline requirement of knowledge required to

students academic achievements to be taught in your classroom
be based on what the state or school
has set (Bookhart, 327)

Student Involvement: How much a How engaged a student is in the classroom

student participates in the classroom
setting

Student Led Conferences: A A conference with parents, but is led by the

conference with parents led by the student rather than the teacher
student. The role of the teacher is a
facilitator in the conference process.

Student Voice: The values, opinions, The opinions and perspectives students give
beliefs, perspectives, and cultural either verbally or in their writing to show how
backgrounds of their personality
individual students and techniques
that are based on student choices,
interests, passions, and ambitions

Student-Teacher Conferences: A A meeting between the student and the teacher

meeting between a student and the to discuss a students progress in the classroom
instructor to discuss the students
progress, performance, and future
path in the class

Summative Assessment: Participants An assessment where you focus on the outcome

where the focus is on the outcome of of the students instead of them getting things
a program. right

Synthesis Reasoning Level Learning: When students can find similarities between two
When students can take two or more different things such as a common theme
things and find similarities between between two books
the two.

Teacher Performance Assessment A test students take that evaluates how their
(TPA): A test students take that is teacher is getting material across and what they
designed to evaluate the knowledge should be changing
of the class to determine if the
teacher is educating at an appropriate
speed and content density

Understanding Level Learning: When When students can use their background
students demonstrate that they have knowledge to further understand new material
taken information that they knew
before and gained an understanding
of what it means.