AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The most common type of achievement test is a standardized test, such as the SAT, required for college entry in the United States. Achievement tests are developed to measure skills and knowledge learned in a given grade level, usually through planned instruction, such as training or classroom instruction.

Detailed explanation-2: -In elementary and secondary education, criterion-referenced tests are used to evaluate whether students have learned a specific body of knowledge or acquired a specific skill set. For example, the curriculum taught in a course, academic program, or content area.

Detailed explanation-3: -The term achievement tests refers to tests designed to measure the knowledge, skills, and abilities attained by a test taker in a field, in a subject area, or in a content domain in which the test taker has received training or instruction.

Detailed explanation-4: -Summative assessments-tests, quizzes, and other graded course activities that are used to measure student performance. They are cumulative and often reveal what students have learned at the end of a unit or the end of a course.

Detailed explanation-5: -Achievement tests have generally been categorized as single-subject tests, survey batteries, or diagnostic tests and further dichotomized as group-or individually administered tests.