Components of Good Assessment

There are three types of performance measures. 1) Individual- referenced: assessments compare a student's performance from a previous test  used to monitor a student's progress toward long-term goals. Help teachers to identify areas of strength and weakness, particularly in reading, mathematics, written language, and spelling. If growth is not observed, teachers should design a new method of instruction or intervention for the student. 2)  Norm -referenced: assessments compare a student's performance with the performance of a particular group. Norm-referenced tests are used to compare school performance outcomes to national norms. and 3) Critereon assessments compare a student's performance with an objective. The standard by which accepted performance is judged; may include a time limit, accuracy tolerance, proportion of correct responses required standards, and/or qualitative This  assessments consist of traditional tests, or indirect measures (e.g., multiple-choice, true or false) as well alternative tests, or direct measures (e.g., portfolio, book reports). (textbook,

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