Chapter 18 Assessment – Flashcards
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            Screening
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        Identify needs/determine if an individual requires further testing, additional programming, or instruction
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            Program content
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        Plan the content of a particular program
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            Student progress
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        Are individuals meeting the course or program objectives?
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            Program evaluation
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        Is the program meeting the objectives for enhanced skill development?
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            Classification
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        Placement of individuals by group
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            Validity
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        Test measures what it claims to measure
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            Content validity
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        The instrument contains tasks that measure specific content of interest
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            Reliability
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        Test score's freedom from error
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            Objectivity
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        Interrater reliability/degree of accuracy to which a test is scored
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            Correlation coefficient
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        A set of ratings complied by one scorer is correlated with the scores obtained by a second scorer
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            Test feasibility
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        Which test can be administered in the least amount of time? Must you administer the test to a single student, or can it be administered to groups? Do you have the training and expertise to administer the test? Do you have all the supplies and equipment needed for the test administration? Do you have the training and expertise to interpret the test results?
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            To reduce test anxiety
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        Test environment can be controlled
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            Meet the participants physical needs
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        Procedure for restroom breaks
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            Meet the participants psychological needs
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        Introduce the test with conversation Reveal what will be done during the test Avoid the word test Allow participants to explore the equipment
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            Measures Central tendency
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        Mean/median/mode
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            Mean
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        Arithmetic average
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            Median
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        50th percentile
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            Mode
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        Score that appears most frequently
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            Measures of variability
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        Describes the spread of scores /standard variability
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            Standard deviation
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        Describes the degree to which the scores vary about the mean of the distribution
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            Informal assessment
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        Student is not generally aware that an observation is being made
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            Play based assessment
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        Children are involved in free play within an approved area, but in the presence of an adult facilitator
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            Norm referenced/psychometric instruments
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        Quantitative evaluations designed to compare a persons skill and abilities with those of others from similar age, gender, and socioeconomic categories
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            Criterion referenced
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        These instruments evaluate the "quality" of a person's performance/can determine where a person is along the developmental continum
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            Product-oriented assessment
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        The examiner is more interested in performance outcomes than the technique used to perform the talk
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            Process oriented assessment
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        That identification of developmental characteristics of body parts within the task
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            Bayley scales of infant and toddler development lll
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        Early childhood assessment instrument (1-42 months)
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            Bruininks-oseretsky test of motor proficiency 2 (BOTMP-2)
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        Provides a comprehensive index of motor proficiency and individual measures of fine and gross motor skills in children 4 to 21 years of age
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            Basic more ability test -revised
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        Designed to assess selected large and small muscle control responses and can be used with children 4 to 12 years of age
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            Denver ll
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        Designed to screen children between birth and six years of age for developmental delays in four areas
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            Four delays in Denver ll
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        Personal social, fine motor adaptive, language, gross motor
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            SIGMA
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        A criterion referenced tool designed to evaluate motor behavior of normal preschool, elementary, and young mentally retarded school children
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            Developmental sequence of motor skills inventory
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        This analysis is based upon the configuration of the total body during performance of the task
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            Fundamental motor pattern assessment instrument
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        Used to assess developmental changes over time for fundamental patterns
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            3 Stages of development
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        Initial stage, elementary stage, mature stage
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            Test of gross motor development - 2
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        Used to identify children between three and 10 years of age who may be significantly behind in gross motor skill development and eligible for special education services
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            Peabody developmental motor scales 2 (PDMS-2)
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        Measures motor skill development in children between birth and age five
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            Brigance diagnostic inventory of early developmental (BDIED)
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        Can assess development from birth to six years of age
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            I CAN
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        Purpose is to improve the quality of physical education instruction for all students
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            FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM
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        Most widely used instrument in the system of health related physical fitness for youth and young adults from ages 5 to 25
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            Brockport physcial fitness test
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        Designed to assist the health related fitness of youth 10 to 17 years of age who have various disabilities
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            The presidents challenge
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        For Americans age 6 and up/children to receive one/awards are based on normative data
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            National youth physical fitness program
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        Encourages individuals K2 college age to maintain a drug-free lifestyle fostering safe respect and self esteem do physical fitness
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            National children and youth fitness studies l and ll
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        Purpose is to describe the current fitness status of American children and youth from ages 6 to 17
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            Presidents challange - Adult fitness test
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        Online self test/calculate composite overall physical fitness level
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            AAHPERD functional fitness test
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        Older adults need to be able to carry out activities/ design for adults over 60
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            Senior fitness test
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        Designed to assess the major physiological components of functional capacity and elderly individuals from ages 16 to 94 years of age
