• Achievement Test - A test designed to accurately measure how much knowledge has been acquired.
• Assessment - A continuous process meant to gather, analyze and determine how well a students skills match the expectations of a standard or benchmark in order to improve teaching and learning.
• Benchmark - The level of understanding in a given standard
• Bloom’s Taxonomy - A six level categorization of questions commonly used in an academic setting originated by Benjamin Bloom
• Criterion Referenced Tests - A test where a student performance is measured against an expected level of mastery and not other students performance. 
• Cut Score - Minimum score needed to pass a test.
• Evaluation - Decisions made based on assessment data.
• Formative Assessment - Identifies the level of ability or skill learned and identifies specific areas of weakness
• Holistic Scoring - A type of grading that produces an overall score.
• Mean - The average of a given set of quantities.
• Median - Point that divides two quantities into two even subgroups
• Mode - The value that appears most often.
• Multidimensional Assessment  - A type of assessment that measures a variety of skills
• Multiple Choice Tests - A type of test that requires one to choose from a given list of possible answers.
• Norm - The average performance of a selected group.
• Norm Referenced Tests - An assessment where a students performance is compared to a norm.
• Percentile - A score that indicates a students standing compared to other test takers, measured on a scale of 1 (low) to 99 (high).
• Process - An overall way of doing something, usually in a series of steps that are interdependent.
• Quartile - A method of separating percentile rankings into 4 categories.
• Rubric - A guide to how a test is or should be scored.
• Analytical - Also known as a detailed assessment, this type of test judges work against a specific set of criteria.
• Authenticity - What the the assessment claims to measure are that which the curriculum deems important
• Fairness - All concerned parties agree that the assessment is accurate and trustworthy and the results are authentic.
• Levels - A way of describing different categories of student skills.
• Objective - A test that measures skills determined outside the assessor and are applied equally.
• Subjective - A test that measures skills determined by the assessor, The results and type of assessment may differ greatly.
• Summative - An assessment that shows performance at a set point in a curriculum.
• Stanine - A method of dividing scores into categories (1 to 9): 1-3 is considered low, 4-6 average and 7-9 above average.
• Range - The lowest and highest score possible in a given assessment.
• Bias - A problem in testing where items measure differently based on ethnicity, gender or age.