A concept inventory is a criterion-referenced test designed to evaluate whether a student has an accurate working knowledge of a specific set of concepts.

Ideally, a score on a criterion-referenced test reflects the amount of content knowledge a student has mastered.

Teachers evaluate students with criterion-referenced tests rather than norm-referenced tests.

This is different from criterion-referenced tests, which measure student performance based on mastery of the material.

Most tests and quizzes that are written by school teachers can be considered criterion-referenced tests.

However, not all criterion-referenced tests have a cutscore, and the score can simply refer to a person's standing on the subject domain.

A criterion-referenced test will use questions which were correctly answered by students who know the specific material.

However, being a high-stakes test is not specifically a feature of a criterion-referenced test.

Chapter 5 is concerned with issues related to criterion-referenced tests.

In the final section some problems concerning decisions about passing and failing candidates taking criterion-referenced tests are discussed.