Quiz On Assessment Terms

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1. Match the following:

1. The process for obtaining information that is used for making decisions about students, curricula, programmes and policy

2. Refers to assessment that is specifically intended to provide feedback on performance to improve and accelerate learning

3. Concerned with summing up or summarising the achievement status of a student, and is geared towards reporting at the end of a course of study especially for purposes of certification

4. The process of seeking and interpreting evidence for use by learners and their teachers to decide where the learners are in their learning, where they need to go and how best to get there

5. The use of ongoing self-assessment by students in order to monitor their own learning, which is “characterized by students reflecting on their own learning and making adjustments so that they achieve deeper understanding.”

6. Refers to meaningful assessment options that are not “traditional” i.e., tasks other than pen-and-paper tests

7. Product- or behavior-based tasks that require students to display the range of knowledge and skills they have learnt

8. Tasks that replicate the ways in which a person’s knowledge and abilities are applied in real-life situations

9. The involvement of learners in making judgements about their own learning, particularly about their achievements and the outcomes of their learning

10. An instrument or systematic procedure for observing and describing one or more characteristics of a student using either a numerical scale or a classification scheme

11. The process of making value judgments about worth of a students' product or performance

12. A procedure for assigning numbers (usually called scores) to a specified attribute or characteristic of a person in such a way that the numbers describe the degree to which the person possesses the attribute

13. The desired consistency (or reproducibility) of test scores

14. The soundness of interpretation and uses of assessment results

15. A definite degree of academic achievement established by some accepted authority and used as a fixed reference point for reporting a student’s level of attainment as a particular grade on the scale used