3.2 Assessment Vocabulary

refers to the wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to evaluate, measure, and document the academic readiness, learning progress, skill acquisition, or educational needs of students

• Evaluation
• Assessment
• Testing
• Grading

the academic standard that pupils reach in assessments and exams. It's usually recorded as grades, scores or levels, and it indicates a pupil’s result at the end of a term.

• progress

• data

• attainment

• achievement

pupils’ achievements over a period of time. It’s the difference between pupils’ previous attainment and current attainment.

• progress

• data

• attainment

• achievement

is a standard, or point of reference, against which other similar things can be compared.

• progress

• benchmark

• attainment

• achievement

Is a standardized exam, generally created and marked by an outside organization.

• diagnostic exams

• internal exams

• external exams

• achievement

assessments created and administered inside the school

• diagnostic exams

• internal exams

• external exams

• achievement

provide a means to look at student performance to offer evidence about student learning in the curriculum, provide information about program strengths and weaknesses, and guide decision-making.

• data

• assessment data

• tests

• gradebook

uses data from multiple sources to increase the validation and reliability of the results.

• data triangulation

• data literacy

• data visualization

• data storytelling

is knowing how, when, and why to examine student data to drive continuous improvement

• data triangulation

• data literacy

• data visualization

• data storytelling

is the visual presentation of data like a chart, infographic, diagram or map.

• data triangulation

• data literacy

• data visualization

• data storytelling