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Code of Professional Responsibility in Educational Measurement ✔✔As an organization
dedicated to the improvement of measurement and evaluation practic
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WGU Educational Assessment
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Code of Professional Responsibility in Educational Measurement ✔✔As an organization
dedicated to the improvement of measurement and evaluation practice in education, the National
Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) has adopted this Code to promote professionally
responsible practice in educational measurement. Professionally responsible practice is conduct
that arises from either the professional standards of the field, general ethical principles, or
both.Persons who engage in these activities include local educators such as classroom teachers,
principals, and superintendents; professionals such as school psychologists and counselors; state
and national technical, legislative, and policy staff in education; staff of research, This Code
applies to any type of assessment that occurs as part of the educational process, including formal
and informal, traditional and alternative techniques for gathering information used in making
educational decisions at all levels. These techniques include, but are not limited to, large-scale
assessments at the school, district, state, national, and international levels; standardized tests;
observational measures; teacherconducted assessments; assessment support materials; and other
achievement, aptitude, interest, and personality measures used in and for education.
Responsibility of those who develop assesment ✔✔1.1 Ensure that assessment products and
services are developed to meet applicable professional, technical, and legal standards.
1.2 Develop assessment products and services that are as free as possible from bias due to
characteristics irrelevant to the construct being measured, such as gender, ethnicity, race,
socioeconomic status, disability, religion, age, or national origin.
1.3 Plan accommodations for groups of test takers with disabilities and other special needs when
developing assessments.
1.4 Disclose to appropriate parties any actual or potential conflicts of interest that might influence
the developers' judgment or performance.
1.5 Use copyrighted materials in assessment products and services in accordance with state and
federal law.
1.6 Make information available to appropriate persons about the steps taken to develop and score
the assessment, including uptodate information used to support the reliability, validity, scoring and
reporting processes, and other relevant characteristics of the assessment.
1.7 Protect the rights to privacy of those who are assessed as part of the assessment development
process.
1.8 Caution users, in clear and prominent language, against the most likely misinterpretations and
misuses of data that arise out of the assessment development process.
1.9 Avoid false or unsubstantiated claims in test preparation and program support materials and
services about an assessment or its use and interpretation.
1.10 Correct any substantive inaccuracies in assessments or their support materials as soon as
feasible.
1.11 Develop score reports and support materials that promote the understanding of assessment
results.
NCME ✔✔National Council on measurement of in education
No Child Left Behind ✔✔: No Child Left Behind holds schools and school districts accountable
for results. Schools are
responsible for making sure your child is learning.let you transfer your child to another public
school if the
state says that your child's school is "in need of improvement." Your school district may pay for
transportation for your child. Contact your child's school district to find out if your child has this
opportunity
ELL ✔✔...
formative performance ✔✔end of the unit quiz
multiple choice assessment ✔✔...
effective selective assessment ✔✔...
portfolio assessment ✔✔...
placement assessment ✔✔pretest
diagnostic assessment ✔✔test of math computational skills necessary in learning math
summative assessment ✔✔end of the year state test
performance assessment ✔✔requiring students to demonstrate their achievement of
understandings and skills by actually performing a task or set of tasks (e.g., writing a story, giving
a speech, conducting an experiment, operating a machine).
alternative assessment ✔✔title for performance assessments that emphasizes that these assessment
methods provide an alternative to traditional paper-and-pencil testi
authentic assessment ✔✔A title for performance assessments that stresses the importance of
focusing on the application of understandings and skills to real problems in "real-world" contextual
settings.
achievement assessment ✔✔A procedure that is used to determine the degree to which individuals
have achieved the intended learning outcomes of instruction. It includes both paper-and-pencil
tests and performance assessments, plus judgments concerning learning progress.
portfolio assessment ✔✔A portfolio is a collection of student work used to show learning progress
over a period of time or to show the student's best work. The students typically participate in
selecting the portfolio entries in terms of th
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