Chapter 9 Flashcards
Achievement tests
Tests designed to assess the academic progress of a student
affective comprehension
A reading comprehension skill whereby the student reads a paragraph or story, and the examiner evaluates the student’s emotional responses to the text.
Applications
In math, this consists of measurement, reading graphs and tables, money and budgeting, time and problem solving.
Arithmetic
The operations or computations performed in math.
composition
The ability to generate ideas and express them in an acceptable grammar, while adhering to certain stylistic conventions.
Critical comprehension
A reading comprehension skill where the student reads a paragraph or story and then analyzes, evaluates, or makes judgments on what he or she has read.
Disregard of punctuation
The oral reading miscue where a student fails to observe punctuation
gross mispronunciation
An oral reading miscue where a student’s pronunciation of a word bears little resemblance to the proper pronunciation.
Incorrect algorithm
Occurs when the procedures used by the student to solve a math problem are inappropriate. The student may skip a step, apply the correct steps in the wrong sequence, or use an inaccurate method.
incorrect number fact
Occurs when the number fact recalled by the student on a math problem is inaccurate. For example, the student recalls the product of 9 and 6 as 52.
incorrect operation
Occurs when the student selects the incorrect operation on a math problem. For example, the problem requires subtraction and the student adds.
inferential comprehension
A reading comprehension skill where a student reads a paragraph or story and must interpret what has been read.
insertion
An oral reading miscue where a student inserts one or more words into the sentence being orally read.
Inversion
An oral reading miscue where a student changes the order of words appearing in a sentence.
lexical comprehension
A reading comprehension skill where a student reads a paragraph or story, and the examiner assesses his or her knowledge of vocabulary words.
listening comprehension
A reading comprehension skill where a student listens to a paragraph or story read to him by someone else and is then asked questions about what was read.
literal comprehension
A reading comprehension skill where the student reads the paragraph or story and is then asked factual questions based on it.
miscue`
The difference between what a reader states is on a page and what is actually on the page.
omissions
An oral reading miscue where a student skips individual words or groups of words when reading aloud.
QUALitative miscues
With this type of miscue analysis, the focus is on the quality of the error rather than the number of different mistakes.
QUANTitative miscues
With this type of miscue analysis, the evaluator counts the number of reading errors made by the student.
random error
When referring to math, this occurs when a student’s response is incorrect and apparently random.
Word attack skills
Skills used to derive meaning and/or pronunciation of a word through context clues, structural analysis, or phonics.
word recognition tests
Tests that explore a student’s ability with respect to sight vocabulary.
