Educational Assessment

Mastery evidence criteria are the specific standards a teacher uses to decide whether a student has truly learned a skill

Competency based assessment is a way of judging learning by whether a student can actually perform a defined skill or

Proficiency level interpretation is the process of translating a test score into a descriptive category, such as basic, proficient, or

Achievement level descriptors are written statements that explain what a student who scores at a given performance level typically knows

Score reporting formats are the ways a testing program presents results to students, families and educators, and they shape how

Cut score reporting practices describe how schools, testing companies and states decide which score counts as passing, proficient or ready,

Confidence bands for scores are ranges placed around a single test result to show how much that result could shift

Standard error of measurement is a term that appears in many score reports, yet most families and even many educators

Confidence intervals in testing are ranges placed around a test score to show how much that score might move if

Misinterpretation prevention refers to the set of habits and checks that help people read test results accurately, so that a