Zusammenfassung der Ressource
NORM- REFERENCED
ACHIEVEMENT TESTS
- Compare students process and master of body knowledge
- Porcentage, comparison, multiple-choice, open-ended, short-answer
questions, content of books, do not take into account the local
curriculum
- CAT, CTBS, ITBS, SAT, IQ, COGNITIVE SKILL TESTS
- CREATING THE BELLS CURVE
- Designed to compare tests scores
- select a sample from the target student population
- Test makers create exams in which end up looking
like a well-shaped curve
- Scores in a porcentage rank
- one wrong or right question can change the porcentage of the student
- test-makers usually do not care about the content covered in a question
- questions focused on minority groups can be eliminated
- have to be completed in a limited time
- NORM- REFERENCED TESTS
- SCORES
- increases
- Teaching for exams
explains why scores
usually go down when a
different test is used
- Schools focused on what is tested
- Above average
- politicians
call for all
students
to score
above the
national
average
- time and purpose
- SCHOOL USE NORM-REFERENCED TEST
- Compare tests with tests from others
test takers who did already the exam
- Obtain quick snapchots of the
"level" of the students
- DANGERS OF USING NRTS
- Mistakes can be made because of the results of NRTS
- it only evaluate a limited area of a subject or a topic
- NRTS are not good for assess a student
- tests are focus on memorizing and routines
- Do not test
problem-solving,
decision-making,
judgement or social skills.
- over-emphasize memorization and de-emphasize
the application of knowledge and thinking
- Students do not
recieve the
education they
deserve
- usually test lower academic expectations
- Lerning or intelligence fits to a bell curve