Assessment Domain - Entities, References, and Descriptors

Assessment

This entity represents a tool, instrument, process, or exhibition composed of a systematic sampling of behavior for measuring a student's competence, knowledge, skills, or behavior. An assessment can be used to measure differences in individuals or groups and changes in performance from one occasion to the next.

AssessmentItem

This entity represents one of many single measures that make up an assessment.

LearningObjective

Deprecated. Users of this element are advised to use LearningStandard instead. Expect removal of this element in a future release.

LearningStandard

A statement that describes a specific competency or academic standard.

LearningStandardEquivalenceAssociation

Indicates a directional association of equivalence from a source to a target learning standard.

ObjectiveAssessment

This entity represents subtests that assess specific learning objectives.

StudentAssessment

This entity represents the analysis or scoring of a student's response on an assessment. The analysis results in a value that represents a student's performance on a set of items on a test.

EducationOrganization

This entity represents any public or private institution, organization, or agency that provides instructional or support services to students or staff at any level.

Program

This entity represents any program designed to work in conjunction with, or as a supplement to, the main academic program. Programs may provide instruction, training, services, or benefits through federal, state, or local agencies. Programs may also include organized extracurricular activities for students.

Section

This entity represents a setting in which organized instruction of course content is provided, in-person or otherwise, to one or more students for a given period of time. A course offering may be offered to more than one section.

Student

This entity represents an individual for whom instruction, services, and/or care are provided in an early childhood, elementary, or secondary educational program under the jurisdiction of a school, education agency or other institution or program. A student is a person who has been enrolled in a school or other educational institution.

Assessment

AcademicSubject

The description of the content or subject area (e.g., arts, mathematics, reading, stenography, or a foreign language) of an assessment.

Local

Yes

Yes

AssessedGradeLevel

The grade level(s) for which an assessment is designed. The semantics of null is assumed to mean that the assessment is not associated with any grade level.

Orthodox

Yes

Yes

AssessmentCategory

The category of an assessment based on format and content. For example: Achievement test, Advanced placement test, Alternate assessment/grade-level standards, Attitudinal test, Cognitive and perceptual skills test...

Orthodox

Yes

Yes

AssessmentIdentificationSystem

A coding scheme that is used for identification and record-keeping purposes by schools, social services, or other agencies to refer to an assessment.

Orthodox

AssessmentPeriod

The period of time in which an assessment is supposed to be administered (e.g., Beginning of Year, Middle of Year, End of Year).

Local

Yes

AssessmentReportingMethod

The method that the administrator of the assessment uses to report the performance and achievement of all students. It may be a qualitative method such as performance level descriptors or a quantitative method such as a numerical grade or cut score. More than one type of reporting method may be used.

Local

Yes

Yes

Language

An indication of the languages in which the assessment is designed.

Orthodox

Yes

Yes

Yes

PerformanceLevel

The performance level(s) defined for the assessment.

Local

Yes

Yes

PlatformType

The platforms with which the assessment may be delivered.

Orthodox

PublicationStatus

The publication status of the document (i.e., Adopted, Draft, Published, Deprecated, Unknown).

Orthodox

ResultDatatypeType

The datatype of the result. The results can be expressed as a number, percentile, range, level, etc.

Orthodox

Yes

AssessmentItem

AssessmentItemCategory

Category or type of the AssessmentItem. For example: Multiple choice, Analytic, Prose...

Orthodox

Yes

LearningStandard

AcademicSubject

Subject area for the LearningStandard.

Local

Yes

Yes

GradeLevel

The grade levels for the specific learning standard.

Orthodox

Yes

Yes

LearningStandardCategory

An additional classification of the type of a specific learning standard.

Orthodox

LearningStandardScope

Signals the scope of usage the standard. Does not necessarily relate the standard to the governing body.

Orthodox

PublicationStatus

The publication status of the document (i.e., Adopted, Draft, Published, Deprecated, Unknown).

Orthodox

LearningStandardEquivalenceAssociation

LearningStandardEquivalenceStrength

A measure that indicates the strength or quality of the equivalence relationship.

Orthodox

ObjectiveAssessment

AcademicSubject

The subject area of the objective assessment.

Local

Yes

Yes

AssessmentReportingMethod

The method that the instructor of the class uses to report the performance and achievement of all students. It may be a qualitative method such as individualized teacher comments or a quantitative method such as a letter or numerical grade. In some cases, more than one type of reporting method may be used.

Local

Yes

Yes

PerformanceLevel

The performance level(s) defined for the assessment.

Local

Yes

Yes

ResultDatatypeType

The datatype of the result. The results can be expressed as a number, percentile, range, level, etc.

Orthodox

Yes

StudentAssessment

Accommodation

The specific type of special variation used in how an examination is presented, how it is administered, or how the test taker is allowed to respond. This generally refers to changes that do not substantially alter what the examination measures. The proper use of accommodations does not substantially change academic level or performance criteria. For example: Braille, Enlarged monitor view, Extra time ,Large Print, Setting, Oral Administration...

Local

Yes

AdministrationEnvironment

The environment in which the test was administered.

Orthodox

AdministrationLanguage

The language in which an assessment is written and/or administered.

Orthodox

AssessmentReportingMethod

The method that the administrator of the assessment uses to report the performance and achievement of all students. It may be a qualitative method such as performance level descriptors or a quantitative method such as a numerical grade or cut score. More than one type of reporting method may be used.

Local

Yes

Yes

EventCircumstance

An unusual event occurred during the administration of the assessment. This could include fire alarm, student became ill, etc.

Flexible

PerformanceLevel

A specification of which performance level value describes the student proficiency.

Local

Yes

Yes

PlatformType

The platform with which the assessment was delivered to the student during the assessment session.

Orthodox

ReasonNotTested

The primary reason student is not tested. For example: Absent, Refusal by parent, Refusal by student, Medical waiver, Illness, Disruptive behavior, LEP Exempt...

Flexible

Yes

ResultDatatypeType

The datatype of the result. The results can be expressed as a number, percentile, range, level, etc.

Orthodox

Yes

RetestIndicator

Indicator if the test was retaken. For example: Primary administration, First retest, Second retest...

Flexible

WhenAssessedGradeLevel

The grade level of a student when assessed.

Orthodox

Yes