What is quantification, characteristics, and explicit rules/procedures?

Are the three distinguishing feature of Measurement

What is Lau vs. Nichols?

The 1974 Supreme Court case that established the difference between identical education and equal education

What are proficiency tests?

These types of tests are designed to measure people's ability in a language regardless of any training they may have had in that language.

What are Title I funds?

In order for schools in Oregon to continue receiving this type of funding, they must demonstrate that students are meeting "adequate yearly progress" in academic achievement.

What is a common misuse of a test?

Acceptance of a test title for what the test measures is an example.

What is a test?

This is a method (psychological or educational) that is created to gather information in order to make conclusions about an individual.

What is Brown vs. The Board of Education?

This court case put an end to the separate but equal upholding.

What is a norm-referenced test?

A type of test that determines an individual's score and thus placed her or him in the top ten per cent of candidates who have taken that test.

What is the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act?

What is the more common name of the re-authorization of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)

What are three strong characteristics to determine the guidelines for using portfolios in Bilingual Education evaluations?

Portfolios must have a clear purpose, they must interact with the curriculum, and must be assessed reliably.

What is reliability?

Is concerned with the quality of test scores and if a test were to be perfect it would be free from inaccuracies in its measurement.

What is U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare Memorandum of May 25, 1970?

This memo states: “Where inability to speak and understand the English language excludes national origin minority group children from effective participation in the educational program offered by a school district, the district must take affirmative steps to rectify the language deficiency in order to open its instructional program to these students.”

What is discrete point testing?

This characteristic of a test refers to testing of one component at a time, piece by piece individually.

What is a learning disability?

When regarding the possible intersection of SPED and ELL students, this remains with them regardless of the language the child is using.

What are Title VII regulations?

These evaluation regulations require that both formal and informal assessment data be summarized across students.

What is a ratio scale?

This type of scale is considered the highest level, because it is capable of discerning based off of four different types of properties.

What is Doe vs. Plyer?

Is the court case that put an end to discrimination against undocumented students admission to school on the basis of their undocumented status.

What is objective?

If no judgement is required on the part of the scorer on a test, then the scoring is said to be this.

What is a common mistake in the misdiagnosis of a SPED learner?

This unfortunate error happens often in schools in the process of assessing a normal second language acquisition learner.

What are practical, viable, and accurate?

The umbrella theme in data collection is that bilingual education programs should make efforts to make their evaluations these three characteristics.

What are nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio?

The four types of scales mentioned in measurement and testing.

What is about 5 million students?

This is about the number of students in U.S. schools who have limited English language capabilities that affect their potential to participate effectively in education and have high academic achievement.

What is indirect testing?

This type of testing attempts to measure the abilities which underlie the skills in which we are interested and are considered to be less concerned with the authenticity of a test.

What are multiple-choice tests in English?

These tests often measure a student's second language literacy skills, rather than the content or concepts for which a test was created.

What is a formative assessment?

These types of assessments must meet four conditions: clear learning targets, a commitment to standards-based instruction, high-quality assessment, and effective communication.