Chapter 3

Question 1

Fluency

Answer 1

a

Question 2

Accuracy

Answer 2

a

Question 3

Choral Reading

Answer 3

aa

Question 4

Readers’ Theater

Answer 4

a

Question 5

Automaticity

Answer 5

a

Question 6

Prosody

Answer 6

a

Question 7

Standards

Answer 7

statement of what students should know and be able to do.

Question 8

Assessment

Answer 8

process of gathering data about an area of learning through tests, observations, work samples, etc.

Question 9

Authentic assessment

Answer 9

Involves using tasks that are typical of the kinds of reading or writing that students perform in school and out (Students select their best writing to include in a portfolio)

Question 10

Raw score

Answer 10

is the number of correct answers or points earned on a test.

Question 11

Percentile rank

Answer 11

where a students raw score falls on a scale of 1 to 99. 50th % means student scored better than 50% of students who took the test.

Question 12

Grade equivalent score

Answer 12

indicates the score that the average student at that grade level achieved.

Question 13

Rubric

Answer 13

is a written description of what is expected from students in order for them to meet a certain level of performance.

Question 14

formative assessment

Answer 14

take place during learning and is used to plan or modify instruction. Students use clickers in class to respond to questions that follow lectures/discussions

Question 15

summative assessment

Answer 15

Occurs after learning has taken place and summarizes students’ progress at the end of a unit or semester. A unit test given after an in-depth study of the Westward movement

Question 16

high stakes assessment

Answer 16

a test in which an important decision will be based on the outcome. The CAHSEE (CA High School Exit Exam)

Question 17

Reliability

Answer 17

A measure of consistency, which means if the same test were given to the same student multiple times the results would be approximately the same.

Question 18

Validity

Answer 18

the test measures what it says it measures.

Question 19

Content validity

Answer 19

the skills and strategies tested must be the same as those taught.

Question 20

concurrent validity

Answer 20

means that an assessment measure correlates with a similar assessment occurring at about the same time.

Question 21

predictive validity

Answer 21

there is a correlation between the assessment and some future behavior.

Question 22

Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)

Answer 22

a series of graded selections beginning at the easiest level up to a level where the material has become too difficult.

Question 23

Independent level

Answer 23

is the level at which a student can read without any assistance. Comprehension is 90% or higher, word recognition is 99% or higher.

Question 24

instructional level

Answer 24

level at which a student needs a teacher’s help. Comprehension is 75% or higher, word recognition is 95% or higher.

Question 25

frustration level

Answer 25

is the level at which reading is so difficult that the student cant read it even with help. frustration is reached when either word recognition is 90% or lower, or comprehension is 50% or lower.

Question 26

Listening capacity

Answer 26

is the highest level of reading material that students can understand with 75% comprehension when it is read to them.

Question 27

Miscue

Answer 27

errors in reading; mispronunciations, omissions, insertions, words supplied by the examiner because the student could not read it or asked for the word.

Question 28

miscue analysis

Answer 28

analyzing miscues in order to determine which cuing systems or combination of cuing systems the student is using: semantic, syntactic, and/or phonic (graphophonic)

Question 29

running record

Answer 29

is an assessment device in which a student’s oral reading errors are noted and classified in order to determine whether the material is on the appropriate level of difficulty and to see which reading strategies the student is using.

Question 30

Screening measures

Answer 30

are designed to indicate possible difficulties or problems

Question 31

benchmark

Answer 31

is an expected level of performance on a task. scores that can be used to predict later success.

Question 32

curriculum-based measure (CBM)

Answer 32

brief, standardized assessment of a general outcome in reading, math, or other area.

Question 33

Standardized

Answer 33

the standard format is followed: standard set of directions, test items, testing conditions.

Question 34

False Positive

Answer 34

indicates there is no problem where one exists or predicts that students will do well but the student has difficulty.