Across
- 4. The accuracy of the inferences made about a student's knowledge or competence based on performance on the assessment
- 8. an item or process requiring knowledge of a particular cultures' values/experiences but does not have the purpose being to measure knowledge of a culture
- 9. Basic issues in assessment, including assessment purpose, validty, threats to the validity, and reliability
- 10. Complexity Using texts that push students beyond their current reading capacities/levels
- 11. Knowledge such as historical, mathematical, or scientific facts that can be declared or stated
- 12. standards all students are expected to meet
- 14. Attained when there is a close match between the content of an assessment and that of the curriculum and instruction
- 15. Refers to the way assessment results are used to improve instruction and learning
Down
- 1. What students can do with what they know
- 2. Assigning subscore, one for language use and another for content knowledge
- 3. purpose is for a grade, score, or accountability usually at the end of a unit or grading period
- 5. providing contextual support for meaning through the use of simplified language
- 6. The assessor's attitude toward a language, dialect, or accent
- 7. conducted regularly and typically not graded
- 13. clearly specified scoring criteria using the same standards and expectations for everyone