Assessments

Question 1

What are informal assessments?

Answer 1

Assessments used to inform and guide instruction. Such as reading inventories, miscue analyses, and running records.

Question 2

What are formal assessments?

Answer 2

Formal Assessments are assessments used to see what the students know and how well the students are doing.
Two types:
Norm Ref- Compares the student to the average score students are getting on this test.
Criterion Ref- Compares the student to a set pre-established standard.

Question 3

Oral Reading Assessments

Answer 3

Students reading rate helps to determine the students fluency. Oral Reading Assessments assess accuracy (how many words per min students can read correctly), prosody (expression in students voices), and rate (how fast the student can read).

Question 4

Independent Reading Level

Answer 4

Students are able to read at least 95% of the words in a passage/book.

Question 5

Instructional Reading Level

Answer 5

Students are only able to read 90% to 95% of the words in the passage/book. Book needs to be used for things as guided reading.

Question 6

Frustration Reading Level

Answer 6

Students cannot read 90% of the words in the passage/book. The book is to hard for the student.

Question 7

Scoring Rubrics

Answer 7

Scoring Rubrics is a evaluation material used to measure student performance. It specially measures students based on the state standards.

Question 8

Portfolios

Answer 8

Portfolios are collections that document the literary development of students in different stages. It is a summative tool that includes literacy information from various sources.

Question 9

Validity

Answer 9

Refers to how well a test measures what it is suppose to measure.

Question 10

Reliability

Answer 10

Stability of the test. Are the test results coming out average or are they all all over the place?