What is a test? - Answers An instrument, protocol, or technique that measures an attribute of
interest.
What is measurement? - Answers The process of collecting data on an attribute of interest.
What is evaluation? - Answers The process of interpreting the collected measurement to make a
professional judgment of value or worth.
What is the relationship between test, measurement, and evaluation? - Answers Test is the tool used,
measurement is the data collected, and evaluation is the decision made based on the data.
What is the difference between quantitative and qualitative? - Answers Quantitative refers to
numbers and final outcomes, while qualitative refers to the performance of outcomes or quality of
movement.
What are some uses of test, measurement, and evaluation for students? - Answers Diagnosis,
classification, achievement, improvement, motivation.
What are some uses of test, measurement, and evaluation for teachers? - Answers Program
evaluation, evaluating units of instruction, evaluating overall curriculum, instructional effectiveness,
assignment of grades, public relations, prediction.
What is the difference between content and performance-based standards? - Answers Content is
what students should know and be able to do; performance is how well they know it and can do it.
What is informal assessment? - Answers A method to evaluate students' knowledge using non-
standardized instruments.
What is formal assessment? - Answers A systematic or standardized test that measures a specific
construct with pre-determined criteria.
What is pre-assessment? - Answers An assessment given prior to instruction to determine baseline
knowledge or ability.
What is summative assessment? - Answers A formal assessment designed to measure understanding
or mastery of the subject at the end of a unit or course.
What is formative assessment? - Answers An assessment that occurs between pre-assessment and
summative assessment to check for understanding during the learning process.
What are program goals? - Answers General long-range goals also called standards.
What are unit outcomes? - Answers Outcomes related to but more specific than program goals.
What are performance-based objectives? - Answers Objectives that are more specific to and directly
related to unit outcomes.
What are the four learning domains of physical education? - Answers Affective, Psychomotor,
Cognitive, Health-related fitness.
What is validity? - Answers The degree of truthfulness of a test score; it determines the confidence in
the accuracy of data collected.
What is reliability? - Answers The accuracy, consistency, and trustworthiness of a test over several
trials or attempts.
What is objectivity? - Answers Reliability that concerns the administration of a test, depending on the
clarity of instructions.
What is content validity? - Answers Whether a test covers what was taught and fully represents the
content area.
What is criterion-related validity? - Answers How well a test correlates with an external standard that
measures the same trait.
What is construct validity? - Answers The degree to which test results accurately measure an attribute
or trait that cannot be directly measured.
What is test-retest reliability? - Answers The consistency of scores when the same test is given to the
same group twice under the same conditions.
What is alternate form reliability? - Answers The consistency between two equivalent versions of a
test given to the same group.
What is split-half reliability? - Answers A method where results are split in half or separated by odd-
even items to establish reliability.
What is alternative assessment? - Answers Any type of assessment that differs from a traditional test,
such as projects or portfolios.
What is authentic assessment? - Answers A type of alternative assessment that emphasizes a test
taking place in a real-world setting.