Glossary Quiz

Directions:

Psychology has almost as many field specific terms as Special Education…perhaps even more. It is important that you be able to actually understand what the Psychometrist is telling you when they explain testing results. Let's see how many of these you actually understand!!

Do NOT look up the answers. This test is a CLOSED BOOK quiz!!!! Do these to the best of your ability as your knowledge currently stands!!!
Answer each word as concisely as possible in the context of Special Education Assessment.
Make sure to complete the second half of the assignment outlined on the bottom of this page.

1. Ability

2. Ability Testing

3. Achievement Tests

4. Accommodations

5. Age Equivalent

6. Alternative Assessment

7. Alternate Forms

8. Aptitude

9. Aptitude Tests

10. Assessment

11. Battery

12. Bell Curve

13. Benchmark

14. Ceiling

15. Composite Score

16. Content Area

17. Content Standards

18. Conversion Table

19. Core Curriculum

20. Derived Score

21. Diagnostic Test

22. Expected Growth

23. Floor

24. Frequency Distrubution

25. Grade Equivalents

26. Intelligence Tests

27. Intelligence Quotient

28. Item

29. Mastery Level

30. Mastery Test

31. Mean

32. Median

33. Mode

34. Modifications

35. National Percentile Rank

36. Normal Distribution Curve

37. Norm-referenced Test

38. Objectives

39. Out-of-Level Testing

40. Percentile Ranks

41. Performance Standards

42. Portfolio

43. Power Test

44. Profile

45. Raw Score

46. Reliability

47. Scaled Score

48. Score

49. Speed Test

50. Standard Score

51. Standard Deviation

52. Standardization

53. Standardized Tests

54. Standards

55. Stanine

56. Subtest

57. T-Score

58. Test

59. Test Bias

60. Validity

Now go to the Glossary of Terms and determine which terms you got right and which ones you made a mistake completing.

• Return to the text box and correct your response

• After the correct definition tell me how you will remember (mnemonic device etc. ) this item from now on.

3. Send in the email and go on to your next assignment.

E-mail J'Anne Ellsworth at Janne.Ellsworth@nau.edu

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