Measures of Intelligence

You just finished looking at the Stanford Binet and WISC. As such, you should have developed additional impressions about educational assessment. What are the strengths IQ tests? What are the drawbacks?

Short-Term Objectives

Our last task tonight is to write two short-term objectives for Susie. Make sure that these help progress Susie to reaching her Annual Goals. 

Susie's Annual Goals

Now that we have discussed writing Annual Goals, it is your turn to write one for Susie. Remember to incorporate the important elements. 

Susie's PLOP

Now it is your turn to write a Present Level of Educational Performance (PLOP) for Susie. Make sure you incorporate the elements we discussed. 

Analyzing and Interpreting Results

Chapter 13 provided an outline for interpreting test results and designing educational goals for appropriate interventions. There are a lot of factors that go into making these decisions and they should not be taken lightly. How do you view this process? What aspects do you find helpful and which do you find cumbersome? Finally, what questions do you have about the information highlighted in Chapter 13?

How Can Curriculum Based Assessments Help Me?

For this week, you read abut curriculum based assessments and other informal measures. These assessments allow teachers to measure a student's growth over a period of time while using curriculum materials. However, do you think they are effective in measuring a student's growth? Also, describe the advantages and disadvantages to this method?

What questions do you still have?

Now that we have initiated the discussion of educational statistics, you need to let me know where you are still having troubles. In the space below, describe what you learned tonight and what areas you still need clarified.

Reliability v. Validity

For tonight's class you read a lot about statistics and how to determine a student's true score. However, what does that mean? How do we know if a student's performance on a test is accurate?

To help shed light on this, there is an old saying,  'A test can be reliable and not valid; but a test cannot be valid and not reliable'. What does this mean?