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A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired, usually as a result of classroom instruction. Produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learning in comparison with a standard or norm.
Useful in an online classroom? Maybe.
Measures the test-taker's innate ability to learn; given before instruction begins.
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An intensive, in-depth evaluation process with a relatively detailed and narrow coverage of a specific area. Determines the specific learning needs of individual students. Guides instruction that meets those needs through regular or remedial activities.
Useful in an online classroom? Maybe.
Requires students to answer questions in writing. Responses can be brief or extensive. Tests for recall, ability to apply knowledge of a subject to questions about that subject.
Useful in an online classroom? Yes!
Assigning a single score based on an overall assessment of performance rather than by scoring or analyzing individual aspects of a student's performance. The product is considered to be more than the sum of its parts and so the quality of a final product or performance is evaluated rather than the process or dimension of performance. Focused holistic scoring may be used to evaluate a limited portion of a learner's performance.
Useful in an online classroom? Maybe.
Students' personal records of and reactions to various aspects of learning and development of ideas. A reflective process often found to consolidate and enhance learning.
Useful in an online classroom? Maybe.
A test in which students are presented with a question or an incomplete sentence or idea. Students choose the correct or best answer from a menu of options.
Useful in an online classroom? Maybe.
A test for which the scoring procedure is completely specified, enabling consistency among different scorers. A correct-answer test.
Useful in an online classroom? Maybe.
A systematic and organized collection of a student's work exhibiting to others direct evidence of that student's efforts, achievements, and progress. Student is involved in the selection of its contents. A portfolio should include information about the performance criteria, and a rubric or criteria for judging merit. It should also demonstrate student self-reflection or evaluation, include representative work, and document the learner's performance and their progress. May include a variety of materials in a variety of formats such as videos, CD-ROMs, reflective journals, etc.
Useful in an online classroom? Maybe.
A type of rubric scoring constructed to assess a specific trait, skill, behavior, or format, or the evaluation of the primary impact of a learning process on a designated audience.
Useful in an online classroom? Maybe.
A generalizable method of doing something. Generally specifies steps or operations which are usually ordered and/or interdependent. Can be part of an assessment, for example a student's prewriting exercises prior to the final production of an essay or paper can be evaluated.
Useful in an online classroom? Yes!
The tangible result of a performance or task. Assessment of student performance is made based on evaluation of the product as a demonstration of learning.
Useful in an online classroom? Yes!
A complex assignment involving more than one type of activity and product. Projects can take a variety of forms; examples might be a mural construction, a shared service project, or other collaborative or individual effort. May be extensive projects planned and carried out during the senior year of high school as the culmination of the secondary school experience, requiring higher-level thinking skills, problem-solving, and creative thinking. Often interdisciplinary and requiring extensive research. Culminate in a presentation of the project to a panel, usually made up of faculty and community mentors, sometimes students, who evaluate the student's work.
Useful in an online classroom? Yes!
In general, an explicit description of performance characteristics corresponding to points on a rating scale. Makes clear the performance requirement at each point on the scale. Written and shared scoring guidelines for judging performance that indicate the qualities by which levels of performance can be differentiated, and that anchor judgments about a student's achievement.
Useful in an online classroom? Yes!
An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Carefully constructed; items are selected after trials for appropriateness and difficulty. Tests are issued with a manual giving complete guidelines for administration and scoring. Guidelines attempt to eliminate extraneous interference that might influence test results. Scores are often norm-referenced.
Useful in an online classroom? No!
A test in which the impressions or opinions of the assessor determines the score or evaluation of performance. Answers cannot be known or prescribed in advance.
Useful in an online classroom? Maybe.