ABCTE - PTK – Assessment Q&A(2022)
summative assessment - ✔content driven, used to measure student achievement at the
end of a curricular unit; assessment of learning
formation assessment - ✔goal-directed, used to monitor student progress during
instruction (practice); assessment for learning
ispative assessment - ✔compared to best previous attempt within same curricular
concept
diagnostic assessment - ✔uses prior learning and provides data that connects new
learning
performance assessment - ✔authentic or alternative; exhibition of skills
criterion-referenced - ✔measures success in reference to defined standards
norm-referenced - ✔measures success against achievement of other students who took
the test; bell curve
content validity - ✔measures what it is intended to measure
reliability - ✔measure of testy consistency; ability to recreate the same results
bias - ✔presence of characteristics that may unfairly influence student scores
fair - ✔provides everyone with equal chance of good assessment of their achievement
predjuice - ✔content, language, or situations that offer advantages or disadvantages to
subpopulation of the class
stereotypying - ✔questions that may be offensive, contain negative connotations, or are
historically-charged
selected response - ✔multiple choice; select correct answer from series in response to
introduction statement (stem)
true/false - ✔decide if question stem or statement is a falsification or not
matching - ✔required to identify, link, match relationship between two objects
essay or constructed response - ✔more than one answer or way to express correct
answer; subjective, most difficult
