Module 4

Question 1

Types of informal assessment:

interviews and questionnaires:

• helps to gain info from
• can be
• can have ?
• are helpful in both ?

Answer 1

relevant stakeholders

• clinician developed or published
• psychometric properties similar to standardized tests
• planning for assessment and to fill “gaps” in assessment

Question 2

developmental scales:
-interviews or observational instruments that ?
NOT
typically provide: 
considered formal because of 
-helpful to establish

Answer 2

sample behaviors from a part. dev. period

• standardized
• equivalency scores
• administration
• baseline function

Question 3

criterion-referenced assessment:
-designed to measure child’s performance against ?
-descriptions of what child is ?
gives more specific info about
unlike norm-referenced it is possible to ?
used to establish?
also help determine if?

Answer 3

child’s performance against a fixed set of criteria or performance standards in a given area of language

• expected to know or be able to do at a specific stage of dev.
• indiv. functioning in a given area
• earn a perfect score
• baseline function/targets for intervention
• intervention goals have been met

Question 4

dynamic assessment: 
based on?
-goal is to determine 
-child's knowledge develops during 
-compared to ?
-assists clinicians in knowing?
make inferences about underlying ?

Answer 4

vygotsky’s model of cog. dev. -ZPD

• child’s ZPD
• social interactions with more capacble learners
• response to intervention model or MTSS models
• -when and how to intervene
• learning processes and what type of intervention needed to make a change

Question 5

dynamic assessment asks questions: 
-how does child
-what are 
to what degree is the behavior ?
-which intervention styles will have ?

Answer 5

approach task
error patterns
able to be modified with intervention
greatest impact

Question 6

functional assessment: evaluates the ?

how does a persons communicative ability influence level of ?

Answer 6

contextual factors that influence an indiv. comm. progress

-autonomy in real-life situations

Question 7

functional assessment
1) direct ?

2) ?…methods
3) …analysis

Answer 7

direct observation
-observer records antecedents behaviors and consequences

informant methods: interviews and questionnaires

antecedents and consequences are manipulated to understand their effects

Question 8

Curriculum Based Assessment measures (CBAs/CBMs) 
-most frequently used in? to ?
-reflect child's ability to ?
-helpful to track children with 
-use in ?
AKA

Answer 8

school settings/monitor progress in shorter increments of time
-master curriculum in specific area
-with CLD concerns
RTI
progress monitoring, authentic assessment, performance assessment, portfolio assessment