WEST-E special education study Questions and Answers
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WEST-E special education study
Questions and Answers
Standardized tests are often used for? - Answer️️ -entry or placemet in
specific programs and to diagnose learning problems or strengths
Where does the school accountability movement come from? - Answer️️ -
The public loss of confide...
WEST-E special education study
Questions and Answers
Standardized tests are often used for? - Answer✔️✔️-entry or placemet in
specific programs and to diagnose learning problems or strengths
Where does the school accountability movement come from? - Answer✔️✔️-
The public loss of confidence in education
Reliability- - Answer✔️✔️-relates to the accuracy with which skills &
knowledge are measured
Valid reasons for assessing students- - Answer✔️✔️-inform decision makers
about student behaviors, monitor student progress toward a goal, screen
students for specific purposes
Why testing accommodations for students with disabilities are important- -
Answer✔️✔️-help ensure that the results will be an accurate indication of
student ability, enable most students to be tested, enable testing practices
to be deemed fair to all students
Most critical problem that can result from standardized achievement test
accommodation- - Answer✔️✔️-accommodation changes the nature of the
measurement
Fair & ethical testing procedures- - Answer✔️✔️-research scores from
individual minority populations to determine whether scores are
comparable, provide non-English-speaking students the opportunity to
take mathematics & science exams in their native language, grade essays
without regard for who wrote
Misuses of state-mandated standardized achievement test scores- -
Answer✔️✔️-assign students to remedial or accelerated tracks based solely
on their scores, compute glass grades using standardized test scores,
compare scores on the exam to in-class quizzes
Criterion-Referenced Tests- - Answer✔️✔️-assessments that rate how
thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge
Norm-Referenced Tests- - Answer✔️✔️-assessments that compare the
performance of one student against the performance of others
Common benefit of standardized achievement tests- - Answer✔️✔️-scores
are comparable across populations
Formative Assessment- - Answer✔️✔️-continuous feedback to the teacher,
test smaller units, monitor progress, informal
Summative Assessment- - Answer✔️✔️-final evaluations of students'
achievement of an objective
Selected Response- - Answer✔️✔️--test items in which respondents can
select from one or more possible answers, without requiring the scorer to
interpret their response
- limited to presented options, common on standardized achievement tests
Constructed Response- - Answer✔️✔️--requires student to supply rather
than to select the answer
-difficulty scoring, requires students to support an argument with multiple
lines of reasoning, depends on writing ability
Primary purpose of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Exam(WRM)- -
Answer✔️✔️-achievement
Eraut's major criticism of using reflection - Answer✔️✔️-sometimes decision
need to be made quickly, and there is not time for reflection
Reflectivity- - Answer✔️✔️--tendency to analyze oneself and one's own
thoughts
-help individuals self-correct behaviors and ideas, empower learners to
take ownership of ideas
Foreclosure- - Answer✔️✔️-an adolescent's premature establishment of an
identity based on parental choices, not on his or her own
Identity Diffusion- - Answer✔️✔️-inability to develop a clear direction or
sense of self; adolescent has few commitments to goals and values, and
seems apathetic about finding an identity; if an identity crisis has been
experienced, it has not been resolved
Moratorium- - Answer✔️✔️-adolescent experiments with goals and values
by abandoning some of those set by parents and society; no definite
commitments have been made to occupations or ideologies; the adolescent
is in the midst of an identity crisis
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