Assessment Practice

Question 1

An assessment, which consistently produces similar outcomes across multiple testing periods, can be described with which of the following terms?

Answer 1

Reliable

Question 2

Graphic organizer of butterfly process can be used for what purposes?

Answer 2

Supporting students understanding of an informational text.

Question 3

which of the following terms is used to describe whether an assessment accurately measures what it is supposed to measure?

Answer 3

Validity

Question 4

What is an example of participating actively in a conversation or group discussion?

Answer 4

Restating and clarifying someone else’s point

Question 5

Vygotskys zone of proximal development can be best defined as:

Answer 5

The recognition that students should be supported with scaffolding and adult support when engaging in tasks that are beyond what they can do independently.

Question 6

A student scores in the 89th percentile on an annual norm referenced test. Which of the following describe what these results mean?

Answer 6

The student did the same as or better than 89% of students.

Question 7

When selecting letters for initial instruction in letter-sound-correspondence, which of the following groups would be most appropriate?

Answer 7

Letters with high utility (most common letters and letter combinations)

Question 8

A teacher underline the affixes in a multisyllabic word. The teacher then asks the students to identify and define the base word before discussing the affixes and their meaning. Students apply their understanding of meanings of the base and affixes to determine the meaning of the unfamiliar word. This activity primarily supports students:

Answer 8

Word analysis

Question 9

Which of the following represent the smallest unit of meaning in written language?

Answer 9

Morpheme

Question 10

A child who is able to identify a stop sign but is not yet decoding, has reached which phase of reading development?

Answer 10

Pre-alphabetic phase

Question 11

Decoding cvc words sound by sound requires skills in what area?

Answer 11

Phonemic awareness

Question 12

Which of the following phonological awareness skills typically develops after students are able to identify rhyming words?

Answer 12

Identifying the initial sound in a word.

Question 13

Along the continuum of phonological awareness skills, which skill is the least complex?

Answer 13

Word awareness

Question 14

Which of the following activities demonstrates a students concepts of print?

Answer 14

Pointing to words while pretending to read

Question 15

Which of the following most accurately describes why the word “scratch” is a complex word for students to orally segment into phonemes?

Answer 15

It contains a consonant blend

Question 16

A teacher wants to support oral language development in a 3rd grade classroom. Which of the following demonstrates the most effective approach for the teacher to foster oral language development?

Answer 16

The teacher has the students select texts to read in book clubs. Each day, the book clubs meet and talk about the chapter they read using sentence frames to support accountable talk.

Question 17

Which of the following is most effective approach for teaching phonological awareness?

Answer 17

Identifying rhyme and alliteration within texts that are read aloud.

Question 18

Matching uppercase and lowercase letters promotes the development of which of the following skills?

Answer 18

Alphabet knowledge

Question 19

Why are some high frequency words called irregular words?

Answer 19

Because some words contain phonics patterns with unexpected pronunciations.

Question 20

“I mite go to the bech.”

A student who demonstrates this type of spelling would be in which spelling stage ?

Answer 20

Transitional spelling

Question 21

Which of the following words includes 2 closed syllables?

Answer 21

Happen

Question 22

Which of the following instructional approaches is most likely to encourage students engagement with literary texts?

Answer 22

Asking guiding questions to be used during peer to peer discussions about the text.

Question 23

Which of the following strategies would best support students integration of background knowledge while reading an informational text?

Answer 23

Completing semantic mapping

Question 24

Which of the following instructional approaches would best support students understanding of the word photosynthesis?

Answer 24

Identifying and defining the Greek morphemes “photo” and “synthesis”

Question 25

Which of the following approaches would best support students understanding of newly introduced vocabulary?

Answer 25

Focus on multiple opportunities to see and use the word.

Question 26

Making a practice of explicitly introducing new vocabulary that more concisely expresses concepts students are already familiar with supports the development of which of the following skills?

Answer 26

Word consciousness