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A student obtains a percentile score of 20 on astandardized reading test. What should the teacher do? |
Conduct additionalassessment before concluding on the basis of a single measure. |
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The reading teacher much determine appropriate placementin the individualized reading program for a student entering midyear. What assessment instrument would be most appropriate for this situation? why? |
Informal reading inventory [the "IRI"] it provides a graded seriesof words, reading passages and comprehension questions. It can be used todetermine a student’s independent, instructional and frustration readinglevels. |
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What is a standardized achievement test? |
any form of test that (1) requires all test takers to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from common bank of questions, in the same way, and that (2) is scored in a “standard” or consistent manner, which makes it possible to compare the relative performance of individual students or groups of students |
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What is a group intelligence test? |
an intelligence test that is given to all members of a group at the same time. |
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What should a teacher consider first when writing weeklylesson objectives for a third grade class? |
needs of the students |
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What is an example of an authentic reading task? |
A running record. |
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what is a running record? |
have a student read, whileteacher keeps a running record. |
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Why is a standardized test not authentic? |
Well, because they are artificial. Word lists don’t exist inreal life and multiple choice tests are not authentic. |
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Which assessment tools encourage students to become more responsible fortheir own literacy learning? and why? |
Portfolios andreading logs because the teacher does not compile them, only evaluates them -teacherobservation and informal reading inventory are teacher-driven assessments-miscue analysisis teacher-driven and standardized tests are developed externally |
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Which statement reflects a current criticism of standardized tests andtraditional assessment? |
They aren’t an integralpart of instruction. Not very useful for modifying a curriculum. |
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Standardized tests and traditional assessments can be... |
comprehensive orspecialized, easy conversion of scores to grades and systematically developed. |
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Story retelling is a great example of what type of assessment? why? |
An authentic assessment becausethey retell one of the passages |
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Why is kid watching a more useful assessment tool than standardizedtests in the primary grades? |
Children demonstrate morereliable reading behaviors in an authentic context. May be included in a range of abilities |
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A teacher uses a miscue analysis technique to assess a student’s readingability. The student reads the sentence, “Bill gave his father a nice gift” as “Billgave his dad a nice gift.” Which would be an appropriate comment for the teacherto record on an analysis sheet? |
”This remains a meaningfulsentences and the miscue is not significant.” A miscue is only significant if itinterferes with the meaning of the sentence. Replacing “father” with “dad” doesnot change the meaning in any measurable way. |
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A student in the 4th grade is having trouble understandingthe science text. Which assessment tool should the teacher use to gatherinformation about the student’s proficiency in reading the science text? |
An informal readinginventory using science passages ...which provides a graded series of words,reading passages and comprehension questions. It can’t be used to determine astudent’s independent, instructional and frustration reading levels and suggestthe source of the student’s difficulty. |
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Why would a reading teacher sit down with a first grade student to take a brief interest inventory? The teacher wants to |
get to know the student and their background. This information is crucial to proper scaffolding of skills, that is, starting where the student's current knowledge and attitude indicates. |
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Which statement indicates the best reason to use a minilesson followed by individual conferences at the end of a writing unit? |
instruct and encourage students' effective self-reflection |
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Which assessment method should a school district select to compare its students' reading levels to other students in the state or nation? |
norm-referenced test |
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Norm referenced means that |
scores on the test are compared with the scores of a cross-section of test takers of different abilities who have taken the same test. |
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Criterion referenced means |
that scores on the test are compared with one or more absolute cut points, typically Pass/Fail, letter grades, or other categories. |
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Informal reading inventories do not use |
normed data They are a tool for approximating a student's reading level by offering graded word lists and passages for the student to attempt. |
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Which is a principle of effective assessment? |
Assessment should involve reflection and collaboration. |
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Testing only at the end of a unit tends to focus on |
skills rather than on insights into the process of learning to read or on identifying zones of proximal development. |
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Which best defines a rubric? |
set of guidelines or acceptable responses for the completion of a task |
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A student's performance is better during oral reading of lists of words than during oral reading of paragraphs of meaningful materials. This suggests that the student is underusing which type of clue? |
context |
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a problem with structural analysis |
breaking down unfamiliar words into parts and trying to deduce the meaning from those parts that are familiar |
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