PSYCH212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Standard Score, Intelligence Quotient, Literacy Test
14 Dec 2017
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Measurement: assign a quantitative value to a qualitative descriptor to an assessment tool, an evaluation expressed in quantitative terms. Evaluation: decision that"s made based on assessment and measurement. Summative: assessment done at the end of the term, follows instruction and assesses achievement. Formative: assessments done on an ongoing basis, take formative assessments to form a summative score, ungraded testing used before or during instruction to aid in planning and diagnosis. Teacher made: any test made by the teacher, taken in class. Standardized: made by a group of experts, everyone gets the same test administered under the same conditions at the same time (example: literacy test, iq test. Usually nation wide, under uniform conditions and scored according to uniform procedures. Objective: about the numbers, anyone can score it, based on a machine (ex. Scantron: no ambiguity, difficult to make, easy to grade. Subjective: open to bias, based on persons interpretation of the content (ex.
