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Standardized Testing: (Misconceptions (A test measures what its name…

- - - - Same with high school exit exams
  - - - Increase of teaching to the test
      - Teaching morale decreased
- - - - School districts that fail to meet standards have staff replaced
  - - - It is difficult to assess what English language learners really know from tests written in English
      - Students with disabilities are also at a disadvantage with No Child Left Behind
- - - - Giving an English language test to ELLs example
    - - Content Validity Evidence
        
        How well test items cover a body of knowledge and skill
      - Predictive Validity
        
        How well a test predicts how a student will perform and behave in the future
      - Construct validity evidence
        
        How accurately a test measures a theoretical description of some internal attribute of a person
  - - - A sample of individuals carefully chosen to reflect the larger population of students for whom test is intended
        
        Must accurately reflect the larger population
    - - A test in which individual performance is evaluated with reference to the performance of a norm group
    - - A test in which students are evaluated according to how well they have mastered specific objectives in various well defined skill areas
- - - - Often misinterpreted by parents
  - - - Results in lots of scores being around the middle
  - - - The standardized test score that tells how far a given raw score differs from the mean and standard deviation units
    - - A standardized test score that ranges from 0 to 100 and uses preselected means of 50 to avoid negative values
    - - A statistic reflecting a division of the score distribution into nine groups of each Stanine being one half of a standard deviation