CRITERION AND STANDARDS-REFERENCED TESTS

CRITERION AND STANDARDS-REFERENCED TESTS

1. CRITERION REFERENCED TESTS

   • Measures how well a students has learned a specific body of knowledge and skills
   • Made to compare test takers
   • scores in a porcentage rank
   • what the students has learn from the material taught
   • only topics from the class
   • passing or "cut off" is set by a comitee of experts
   • is based on general things that teachers might be taught

2. STANDARDS REFERENCED TESTS

   • what students should do in different subjects at various levels
   • define the big picture of a students
   • are made to have a strong impact on local curriculum and instruction
   • most of the exams do not assess many important topics or skills because of the type of questions they use.
   • do not complete measures of standards

3. CRT AND NRTS

   • 2 purpouses at the same time
     • CRT'S
       • Assess mastery and rank students, technical procedures
     • NRT'S
       • iIf students learned content, measure and rank students, fit standards and report dreferenced scoresmitee