Which assessments compare a student's performance with a preset standard?

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Which assessments compare a student's performance with a preset standard?

Assessments that compare a student's performance to a preset standard measure mastery of specific skills or learning goals. They use predefined criteria or rubrics to determine whether the student meets the standard, rather than ranking students against one another. This is the hallmark of criterion-referenced assessments. Decoding and blending are reading processes, not evaluation methods, and deep orthography refers to how consistently spelling maps to sounds in a language. Neither describes a measurement approach set against fixed standards, so they don’t fit.

Assessments that compare a student's performance to a preset standard measure mastery of specific skills or learning goals. They use predefined criteria or rubrics to determine whether the student meets the standard, rather than ranking students against one another. This is the hallmark of criterion-referenced assessments. Decoding and blending are reading processes, not evaluation methods, and deep orthography refers to how consistently spelling maps to sounds in a language. Neither describes a measurement approach set against fixed standards, so they don’t fit.

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