Wait, you're using norm-referenced test items to pass judgments on teachers?. From Wordnik.com. [Gerald Bracey: Value Subtracted: A "Debate" with William Sanders] Reference
As to the tests you note, almost all of those are "norm-referenced" based tests. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: "More WASL delays coming?"] Reference
On a norm-referenced test, nationally, 50 percent of students are below, by definition. From Wordnik.com. [A weird accountability system in Texas] Reference
Standardized norm-referenced tests will ignore and obscure anything that is unique about a school. From Wordnik.com. [A weird accountability system in Texas] Reference
It does not make sense to develop a norm-referenced set of national tests for K-12 schools however. From Wordnik.com. [National Education Standards and Tests are Unlike the SAT] Reference
A norm-referenced standardized achievement test must test only material that all children have had an opportunity to learn. From Wordnik.com. [A weird accountability system in Texas] Reference
It was thus a floating standard as norm-referenced tests have to be re-normed every few years, but at least everyone understood what it meant. From Wordnik.com. [Gerald Bracey: Neuman Comes Clean on No Child Left Behind] Reference
Back in the 1970s and early 1980s teachers felt that our norm-referenced testing, such as the ITBS, SAT, CTBS, MAT, provided data that did not measure what we are teaching. From Wordnik.com. [When teachers are their own worst enemies] Reference
The standarized Iowa test you're talking about is a norm-referenced test that shows how kids are doing in comparison to one another, not whether they've actually reached the grade level standards expected of them. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: GOP Legislative Candidates Are Toast in the Burbs Until Rhetoric on Two Campaign Issues Improves] Reference
Test like the WASL are "criterion-based" tests, which measure whether or not a student is reaching a specified level of proficiency, not necessarily how they're doing against their peers or against students of different grade levels (my kids likewise score well on Stanford Achievement Tests at the elementary level which are "norm-referenced"). From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: "More WASL delays coming?"] Reference
Some school systems ... use the norm-referenced test. From Wordnik.com. [The Roanoke Times: Home page] Reference
Will teachers be required to use norm-referenced assessment tools?. From Wordnik.com. [ScreenTalk] Reference
They will also take survey norm-referenced exams to measure their individual readiness. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The SAT-10 is a norm-referenced standardized test held in Guam's public schools every year. From Wordnik.com. [guampdn.com - Local News] Reference
This notation comes as a result of scoring at the highest level in standardized, norm-referenced testing. From Wordnik.com. [Fremont Tribune News Articles] Reference
I could start by pointing out that grades these days are largely criterion-referenced rather than norm-referenced. From Wordnik.com. [Word Magazine - Comments] Reference
These norm-referenced exams can be used to diagnose the academic strengths and weaknesses of students as they prepare for college. From Wordnik.com. [Cleburne Times-Review, Cleburne, TX Homepage] Reference
They use much of the same methodology used in SAT's (norm-referenced tests), so that the test is more similar to those used at a national level. From Wordnik.com. [Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines] Reference
Try explaining the difference between criterion-referenced banding and norm-referenced banding to a fellow parent and eyes will probably glaze over. From Wordnik.com. [Latest education news, including the university guide 2010, RAE results, higher and schools news, schools tables and further education | guardian.co.uk] Reference
"While we focus intently on the Georgia Performance Standards and the CRCT, we also believe it is important to administer a norm-referenced test," Ray said. From Wordnik.com. [The Walton Tribune: News] Reference
In order to meet this requirement, teachers will need to use a range of assessment practices, including tools that are norm-referenced for New Zealand students. From Wordnik.com. [ScreenTalk] Reference
The test is "norm-referenced" so that individual student results, as well as district-wide results, can be compared to the other school districts taking the Stanford 10. From Wordnik.com. [guampdn.com - Local News] Reference
The state has removed multiple choice questions from the FCAT writing tests and it no longer will administer a norm-referenced test used for national comparisons as part of the FCAT. From Wordnik.com. [clickorlando.com - Local News] Reference
The legislation sponsored by Rep. Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, would require any school with at least 30 voucher students to report the school's performance on norm-referenced tests. From Wordnik.com. [EducationNews.org] Reference
The SAT-10 is a norm-referenced standardized test held in Guam's public schools every year, although the school system is working to develop a new test that is tuned to the local curriculum. From Wordnik.com. [guampdn.com - Local News] Reference
A norm-referenced test and recognition task, respectively. From Wordnik.com. [American Journal of Clinical Nutrition current issue] Reference
( "Grade Level," by the way, has always been arbitrary, but in the days of norm-referenced tests, it had a common meaning: it was the score of the average child in a particular grade when the test was being normed. From Wordnik.com. [Gerald Bracey: Neuman Comes Clean on No Child Left Behind] Reference
Starting in 1963, NAEP’s conceptual father, Francis Keppel, and technical father, Ralph Tyler, wanted to create something different from a norm-referenced test on which about 50 percent of students answer most items correctly. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times: The Paper of Record Ignorance on Education] Reference
The SAT is a norm-referenced test. From Wordnik.com. [National Education Standards and Tests are Unlike the SAT] Reference
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