Comp 10: Assessment & Developing Literacy

Question 1

Informal Assessments

Answer 1

ungraded (formative) assessments that gather information from multiple sources to help teachers make decisions

EX: running record

Question 2

3 Reading Proficiency Levels

Answer 2

1. Independent: 95% words read correct
2. Instructional: 90-94% words read correct
3. Frustration: 89% or fewer words read correctly

Question 3

What are informal reading inventories?

Answer 3

Assessment instruments designed to identify children’s proficiency levels

Question 4

Miscue Analysis

Answer 4

A way of acquiring insight into children’s reading strategies by studying the mistakes they make when reading aloud.

Question 5

Steps of Miscue Analysis

Answer 5

1. Select reading material bit above reading level, about 500 words
2. Provide coops to child
3. Triple spaced copy to write comments
4. Record reading
5. Provide instruction to child and say can’t help them while reading
6. Ask questions about story
7. Let reader listen to recording and analyze
8. Look for inconsistent miscues and pay special attention to first and final clusters/blends and digraphs

Question 6

Formal Assessments

Answer 6

(administered formally in the classroom)
large-scale assessments at the school, district, state, national, and international levels; standardized tests

Question 7

Miscue

Answer 7

a mistake in reading written words such as saying the wrong word, leaving out a word, repeating a word, inserting a word.

Question 8

Formative Evaluation

Answer 8

Evaluation conducted before or during instruction to facilitate instructional planning and enhance students’ learning.

Question 9

Summative Evaluation

Answer 9

Evaluation conducted after instruction to assess students’ final achievement.

Question 10

Criterion-Referenced Tests (CRTs)

Answer 10

Teacher try to measure each student against uniform objectives or criteria (standards)

Question 11

Norm-Referenced Tests (NRT)

Answer 11

Designed to compare the performance of groups of students

Question 12

Percentile Score

Answer 12

indicates the percentage of people who score at or below the score one has obtained

Question 13

Way of report NRT score?

Answer 13

Rank students from highest to lowest.

EX: at 80th percentile, scored well as or better than 79% of those who took test

Question 14

What kind of scoring is used to evaluate the writing of students?

Answer 14

Holistic scoring

Question 15

How are ELLs English progression monitored?

Answer 15

Four language domains: listening, speaking, reading, writing.

Federal legislation require all ELLs be assessed yearly in all four language areas to document progress towards English mastery.

Question 16

TELPAS

Answer 16

(Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System) The RPTE and TOP assessments fall under this system. Students are rated annually on their proficiency of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Every student is supposed to make adequately yearly progress by improving a level each year from beginning- to advanced high.

Question 17

TELPAS (k-1)

Answer 17

includes holistically rated listening, speaking, reading, and writing assessments based on ongoing classroom observations and student interactions

Question 18

What standards are used when instruction to ELLs is delivered in English?

Answer 18

English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS)

Question 19

English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS)

Answer 19

Implemented as a part of an ongoing content area support for ELLs

Required to add language proficiency objectives to daily lesson plans

Select appropriate ELPS objective that allow ELL develop academic proficiency to benefit from instruction and master state curriculum

Question 20

Minimal Pairs

Answer 20

A pair of words that differ by only a single sound and are recognized by speakers as different words. i.e. bat/cat or hare/dare

Question 21

Phonology

Answer 21

the study of speech sounds in language