Arkansas Foundations of Reading Test (FORT)

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What do criterion-referenced tests compare?

Students' knowledge and achievement to their peers.
Students' achievements to state standards and curriculum objectives.
Teachers' effectiveness in instruction.
Performance on creative tasks to performance on analytical tasks.

The correct answer is: Students' achievements to state standards and curriculum objectives.

Criterion-referenced tests compare students' achievements to state standards and curriculum objectives. This type of assessment measures a student's performance against specified criteria or learning standards, providing detailed information about what a student knows and is able to do in relation to the content and skills outlined in the standards. This makes choice B the correct answer. The other options are incorrect because criterion-referenced tests are not designed to compare students to their peers (option A), evaluate teachers' effectiveness (option C), or compare performance on different types of academic tasks (option D). Instead, the primary focus of criterion-referenced tests is to determine whether students have met specific learning objectives or standards.