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In the previous example, the same score on the ACT can be interpreted in a norm-referenced or criterion-referenced manner. Domain-referenced test is similar to criterion-referenced test, it is an assessment that covers a specific area of study such that a score will reveal how much of this area has been mastered.
The following standardized tests are designed and/or administered by state education agencies and/or local school districts in order to measure academic achievement across multiple grade levels in elementary, middle and senior high school, as well as for high school graduation examinations to measure proficiency for high school graduation.
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP); State achievement tests are standardized tests.These may be required in American public schools for the schools to receive federal funding, according to the US Public Law 107-110 originally passed as Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and currently authorized as Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015.
The inventory provides information in 11 criterion-referenced, skill-based developmental areas: [citation needed] Perambulatory Motor Skills and Behaviors; Gross-Motor Skills and Behaviors; Fine-Motor Skills and Behaviors; Self-help Skills; Speech and Language Skills; General Knowledge and Comprehension; Social-Emotional Development; Early ...
The California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP), known until February 2014 as the Measurement of Academic Performance and Progress (MAPP), measures the performance of students undergoing primary and secondary education in California. In October 2013, it replaced the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program.
Criterion-referenced assessment is often but not always used to establish a person's competence (whether he/she can do something). The best-known example of criterion-referenced assessment is the driving test when learner drivers are measured against a range of explicit criteria (such as "Not endangering other road users").
Students enrolled in special education classes were excluded from the sample. The sample was balanced by; sex, race and socioeconomic level. Between the years of 1995-1996 the PIAT-R was restandardized as part of a renorming program which included other assessments in use at the time. [4] The new version, PIAT-R/NU, included an older age group.
There is some overlap between tests: children aged 6 years 0 months through 7 years 7 months can complete the WPPSI or the WISC; children aged 16 can complete the WISC-V or the WAIS-IV. Different floor effect and ceiling effect can be achieved using the different tests, allowing for a greater understanding of the child's abilities or deficits.