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Appendix A: Glossary of Terms Related to Early Childhood Assessment
Pages 421-428

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... . Achievement test A testing instrument, typically standardized and norm-referenced, used to measure how much a child has learned in relation to edu cational objectives (Council of Chief State School Officers, 2008)
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... . Authentic A type of performance assessment that uses assessment tasks that are as close as possible to real-life practical and intellectual challenges and the child completes the desired behavior in a context as close to real life as possible (McAfee, Leong, and Bodrova, 2004)
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... . Informal A procedure for obtaining information that assessment can be used to make judgments about charac teristics of children or programs using means other than standardized instruments ­(Council of Chief State School Officers, 2008)
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... . Readiness test A testing instrument designed to measure skills believed to be related to school learn ing tasks and to be predictive of school suc cess (Council of Chief State School Officers, 2008)
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... . There is no sin gle, preferred approach to quantification of reliability (American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Asso ciation, and National Council on Measure ment in Education, 1999)
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... New York: Guilford Press. Council of Chief State School Officers.


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