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Norm and Criterion Reference Assessment

The document discusses norm-referenced and criterion-referenced assessment. Norm-referenced assessment compares a student's performance to peers, while criterion-referenced assessment focuses on whether a student has mastered specific skills or concepts based on preset criteria.

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Norm and Criterion Reference Assessment

The document discusses norm-referenced and criterion-referenced assessment. Norm-referenced assessment compares a student's performance to peers, while criterion-referenced assessment focuses on whether a student has mastered specific skills or concepts based on preset criteria.

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Name: Ria Mae O.

Tubania
BEED III-3

Norm and Criterion Reference Assessment

1.Summary.
A frame of reference is required to interpret assessment evidence. There are two
distinct approaches to interpreting assessment information. Norm referenced
assessment compares the student to the expected performance against that of
peers within a cohort with similar training and experience. Criterion referenced
assessment focuses on the candidate's performance of the task against an set of
criteria related to the knowledge, skills, or attributes that the candidate is
developing. The two types of tests each serve a different purpose, and the scores
are used differently. Schools and teachers may use norm-referenced test scores
to rank student achievement across broad areas of knowledge. Another example
of a norm-referenced score is a growth chart. Just as test scores, growth points
are ranked in comparison to others in the same age group.

On the contrary, criterion-referenced scores may be used to determine if a


student has mastered specific skills or concepts in specific areas of study. The
example of driver’s education exam illustrates this concept. Test takers are not
ranked by performance on the driver’s education exam. Instead they either pass
or fail depending if they met the preset criteria.

2.Which is better to use norm or criterion reference in assessing student specific


skill?
Norm-referenced tests are specifically designed to rank test takers on a “bell
curve,” or a distribution of scores that resembles, when graphed, the outline of a
bell a small percentage of students performing well, most performing average,
and a small percentage performing poorly. To produce a bell curve each time, test
questions are carefully designed to accentuate performance differences among
test takers, not to determine if students have achieved specified learning
standards, learned certain material, or acquired specific skills and knowledge.
Tests that measure performance against a fixed set of standards or criteria are
called criterion-referenced tests.

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