1. Assessing and Reporting Student Achievement
Chapter 7

2. Why do we assess? To assist in student learning
Identify student strengths/weaknesses
Diagnostic assessment
To assess effectiveness of instruction
To provide data for decision making

3. What’s the difference?
Test – a tool that judges a small amount of data at a given moment in time.
Assessment – relative neutral process of finding out what student are learning.
Evaluation – more subjective, determining the result of the assessment.
Used interchangeably

4. Measurement and Assessment
Measurement refers to quantifiable data about specific behaviors.
Blood pressure
Heart rate
Test grades
Validity – measures what it was intended to measure
Reliability – accuracy with which a measure consistently gauges that which it is intended to gauge.

5. Three phrases to know Diagnostic assessment – pre-assessment
Formative assessment – learning during instruction
Summative assessment – learning after the instruction

6. Know the difference Criterion referenced tests Norm referenced tests
CRCT
EOCT
GHSGT
Teacher-made tests
Norm referenced tests
ITBS
SAT
GRE

7. Know the difference
Rubric
P. 283, 284
Checklist
P.265, p.266

8. Writing Tests
A PowerPoint has been loaded onto the web site about this.

9. How to Raise Test Scores
A PowerPoint has been loaded onto the web site to address this.
Check here on how to relieve test stress.

10. Reporting Student Work
Report cards changing
PowerSchool
Parent-Teacher Conference

11. Dealing with Angry Parents
Stay calm
Have paper work
When assignments were made
How they were shared – written instructions
How progress was noted
How grades determined
Do not become intimidated.
Foul language ends the conversation
Do NOT talk about other students – FERPA!
Do NOT talk about your being over worked, having personal problems, etc.