(CRTs) compare student performance to a standard that has been established for particular set of test questions or statements.
Criterion-referenced tests measure a student’s performance in order to determine what a student can do and what they know, reporting this information relative to predetermined standards. Predetermined standards can be based on curricular objectives, skills, or content area knowledge. This type of assessment does not compare students.
the assessment of skills in terms of absolute levels of mastery rather than in comparison to a normative sample.
A test that measures specific skill development as compared to a predefined absolute level of mastery of that skill.
These tests measure students' performance against set standards. They measure how a student has learned specific skills, concepts, facts and ideas, not how they performed against their peers locally or nationally.
Criterion-referenced tests are designed to assess a rather limited range of objectives or goals. They are usually used as mastery tests to assess whether an individual can demonstrate a specific skill or objective.
Tests designed to measure a student’s mastery of a particular content area of the curriculum. These tests compare student performance to criteria of what eh student should know, rather than to the performance of other students. (Compare, norm-referenced tests.)
Criterion-referenced tests are designed to compare a student's test performance to clearly defined curricular objectives, skill levels, or areas of knowledge rather than with scores or a sample of other students (like norm-referenced tests). Return to the Top
Tests designed to measure how thoroughly a student has learned a particular body of knowledge without regard to how well other students have learned it.
Tests whose scores are interpreted by referral to well defined domains of content or behaviors, rather than by referral to the performance of some comparable group of people. [ A-C] [ D-F] [ G-I] [ J-L] [ M-O] [ P-R] [ S-U] [ V-Z] [ Table Of Contents
Criterion-referenced tests are assessments of a specified level of an ability or a specified body of information. Classroom tests that assess learners' mastery of a specific lesson are one type of criterion-referenced test as are published tests that use graded materials to find a learner's level of mastery. The DAR is a criterion-referenced test.
