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Tests of educational ability have broad applications. the following purposes: correct answers 1.
to determine how well a student is learning;
2. to assess how well a class, grade, school, school system, or state is learning content
knowledge;
3. as one method of detecting learning problems;
4. as one method of identifying giftedness;
5. to help determine if a child is ready to move to the next grade level;
6. as one measure to assess teacher effectiveness;
7. to help determine readiness or placement in college, graduate school, or professional schools;
8. to determine if an individual has mastered content knowledge for professional advancement
(e.g., credentialing exams).
Educational testing focuses on 4 domains correct answers Survey Battery Tests
Diagnostic Tests
Readiness Tests
Cognitive Ability Tests
Survey Battery Tests: correct answers Tests, usually given in school settings, which measure
broad content areas and often used to assess progress in school.
"No Child Left Behind"(NCLB) mandating that states must show that"adequate yearly
progress"is being made toward all students achieving at state specified academic standards
most frequently used survey battery achievement tests often given by various states, correct
answers the Stanford Achievement Test,
the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS),
the Metropolitan Achievement Test.
Stanford Achievement Test correct answers one of the oldest survey battery introduced in 1923
given to students in grades K-12
offers many options such as full-length or abbreviated versions as well as content modules,
which are tests for specific subjects such as reading, language, spelling, mathematics, science,
social studies, and writing has sections that can be completed in open-ended format, requiring
students to fill in the blank, respond with short answers, or write an essay that will be scored by
the classroom teacher using criterion grading.
Reliability appears sound, showing KR-20 internal consistency estimates in the mid 0.80s to low
0.90s. However, reliability estimates for the open-ended sections generally fell to the 0.60s to
0.80s and in some cases to the mid 0.50s. The Stanford Achievement Test appears to have sound
validity,
Evidence for construct validity was established by comparing scores on subtests with the Otis-
Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT), which produced a fairly high correlation. Criterion-
related validity was addressed by numerous studies and is thorough and reasonable.
, Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) correct answers developed in 1935,
Today, the test emphasizes the basic skills necessary to make satisfactory progress through
school. The purposes of the instrument are to"(a) to obtain information that can support
instructional decisions made by teachers in the classroom, (b) to provide information to students
and their parents for monitoring the student's growth from grade to grade, and (c) to examine
yearly progress of grade groups as they pass through the school's curriculum
the test are geared for K - 8 and have numerous subtests, depending on the grade level, which
may include language, reading comprehension, vocabulary, listening, word analysis, math, social
studies, science, and sources of information (the ability of students to use maps, dictionaries,
reference
Testing 30 minutes for a single test to over 6 hours when a total battery is administered.
strong evidence of content validity
Reliability of most subtests are in the mid 0.80s to low 0.90s,
correlations from the low 0.70s to the low 0.80s with the Cognitive Ability Test (CogAT),
offering additional validity evidence for the instrument and providing a mechanism to possibly
identify learning problems if scores on the ITBS are considerably lower than those on the
CogAT
Metropolitan Achievement Test correct answers During the 1930s,
grades K-12 for knowledge in a broad range of subjects such as reading, language arts,
mathematics, science, and social studies. It has 13 test levels (K-12) and can be given in a short
form that takes 90 minutes or the complete form up to 5 hours.
Test items consist of multiple-choice questions,, and open-ended items, which are scored as 0 to
3.
As with the Stanford and ITBS, reliability estimates are quite high, usually between 0.8 and 0.9
or higher for most subtests, and content, criterion, and construct validity are sound.
Diagnostic Tests correct answers Tests that assess problem areas of learning and often used to
assess learning disabilities.
five of the more common diagnostic tests of achievement often used to assess learning problems:
correct answers the Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4),
the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT),
the Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT),
the WoodcockJohnson,
the Key Math Diagnostic Arithmetic Test.
Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4), correct answers developed to assess basic reading,
spelling, math, and sentence comprehension skills. It is"intended for use by those professionals
who need a quick, simple, psychometrically sound assessment of important fundamental
academic skills
ages 5 to 94. The test takes between 15 and 45 minutes, depending on the age of the individual,
and is administered individually because some sections are read aloud by the examinee. The
WRAT4 attempts to assure that the test is assessing the fundamentals of reading, spelling, and
arithmetic, as opposed to comprehension,
