Brave New World Context Summary
Summary
General Responsibilities of Ethical Practices -
<<<<Answers>>>>1. Protect the health and
safety of all participants
2. Be knowledgeable about and behave in
compliance with state and federal laws
relevant to the conduct of professional
activities
3. Maintain and improve their professional
competence in educational assessment
4. Provide assessment services only in areas
of their competence and experience, affording
full disclosure of their professional
qualifications
5. Promote the understanding of sound
assessment practices in educations
6. Adhere to the highest standards of conduct
and promote professionally responsible
conduct with educational institutions and
agencies that provide educational services
7. Perform all professional responsibilities with
honesty, integrity, due care, and fairness.
,No Child Left Behind (NCLB) 2002 -
<<<<Answers>>>>is a government mandate to
schools and states to have ALL children up to
grade level with their peers. It set unrealistic
goals and penalized schools that did not make
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). The act also
required all teachers become "highly
qualified". With these new benchmarks and
changes to the ways states' addressed
education, came increased accountability.
Failure could mean a decrease in funding or
dissolution of a school/district. Achievement
was linked to standardized testing done grades
3-8 and at least one year during high school.
Tied achievement to annual standardized
tests. These tests are administered to grades
3-8 and at least one year between 9-12th
grades.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act 1994
(ESEA). Reauthorized -
<<<<Answers>>>>Challenging standards were
set for student achievement and to develop
and administered to "all" students and required
,that all schools make "Adequate Yearly
Practice". It also included "special needs
students" in the definition of all students.
States were required to set challenging
standards for student achievement, and
develop and administer assessments to
measure student progress towards those
standards. Federal laws such as ESEA and
IDEA can be seen as legislated attempts to
'raise the bar.'
Item Selection Procedures-Includes all items
needed to adequately describe performance.
No attempt is made to alter item difficulty or to
eliminate easy items to increase the spread of
scores.
Performance Standards-Level of performance
is commonly determined by absolute standards
(e.g., demonstrates mastery by defining 90
percent of the technical terms).
according to a specified domain of clearly
fined learning tasks
a test or other type of assessment designed to
provide a measure of performance that is
interpretable in terms of a clearly defined and
delimited domain of learning tasks.
, Other terms that are less often used but have
meanings similar to criterion referenced:
standards based
objective referenced
content referenced
domain referenced
universe referenced.
Supply Response - <<<<Answers>>>>are higher
in realism and the complexity of tasks they
can measure (e.g., ability to originate,
integrate, and express ideas) than selected-
response tests, but they are more time
consuming to use and more difficult to score.
(students are supply the response: short
answer items and essay items)
Standard - <<<<Answers>>>>a broad
statement that describes what students should
learn. Provide the framework for curriculum
development.
Summary
General Responsibilities of Ethical Practices -
<<<<Answers>>>>1. Protect the health and
safety of all participants
2. Be knowledgeable about and behave in
compliance with state and federal laws
relevant to the conduct of professional
activities
3. Maintain and improve their professional
competence in educational assessment
4. Provide assessment services only in areas
of their competence and experience, affording
full disclosure of their professional
qualifications
5. Promote the understanding of sound
assessment practices in educations
6. Adhere to the highest standards of conduct
and promote professionally responsible
conduct with educational institutions and
agencies that provide educational services
7. Perform all professional responsibilities with
honesty, integrity, due care, and fairness.
,No Child Left Behind (NCLB) 2002 -
<<<<Answers>>>>is a government mandate to
schools and states to have ALL children up to
grade level with their peers. It set unrealistic
goals and penalized schools that did not make
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). The act also
required all teachers become "highly
qualified". With these new benchmarks and
changes to the ways states' addressed
education, came increased accountability.
Failure could mean a decrease in funding or
dissolution of a school/district. Achievement
was linked to standardized testing done grades
3-8 and at least one year during high school.
Tied achievement to annual standardized
tests. These tests are administered to grades
3-8 and at least one year between 9-12th
grades.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act 1994
(ESEA). Reauthorized -
<<<<Answers>>>>Challenging standards were
set for student achievement and to develop
and administered to "all" students and required
,that all schools make "Adequate Yearly
Practice". It also included "special needs
students" in the definition of all students.
States were required to set challenging
standards for student achievement, and
develop and administer assessments to
measure student progress towards those
standards. Federal laws such as ESEA and
IDEA can be seen as legislated attempts to
'raise the bar.'
Item Selection Procedures-Includes all items
needed to adequately describe performance.
No attempt is made to alter item difficulty or to
eliminate easy items to increase the spread of
scores.
Performance Standards-Level of performance
is commonly determined by absolute standards
(e.g., demonstrates mastery by defining 90
percent of the technical terms).
according to a specified domain of clearly
fined learning tasks
a test or other type of assessment designed to
provide a measure of performance that is
interpretable in terms of a clearly defined and
delimited domain of learning tasks.
, Other terms that are less often used but have
meanings similar to criterion referenced:
standards based
objective referenced
content referenced
domain referenced
universe referenced.
Supply Response - <<<<Answers>>>>are higher
in realism and the complexity of tasks they
can measure (e.g., ability to originate,
integrate, and express ideas) than selected-
response tests, but they are more time
consuming to use and more difficult to score.
(students are supply the response: short
answer items and essay items)
Standard - <<<<Answers>>>>a broad
statement that describes what students should
learn. Provide the framework for curriculum
development.
