Exam 2: Assessment of Progress in Literacy

The following types of student reading assessments would be helpful to parents or caregivers when they accompany the review of reading scores from a standardized test, EXCEPT:

Artifacts in the __________ are few in number but represent a student's best efforts and are accompanied by a reflective statement that explains the importance or value of the artifact to the owner.

A reading attitude survey would provide a teacher with the following information about a student, EXCEPT:

Teachers in grades 4-8 may wish to periodically and informally assess their students' recognition of particular words and especially their use of __________ often found in polysyllabic words.

__________ tests have been administered to a large group of students, representative of those for whom the test is intended.

A teacher's direct observations of the student's actual reading and writing abilities for the purpose of noting which specific behaviors or strategies a student uses is known as __________

One portion of an oral reading from an informal reading inventory (IRI) passage revealed the following miscue: TEXT: But all she saw were the cars and trucks racing along the busy road. STUDENT: But all she saw were the cars and trucks raising along the busy road. Which of the following language cue systems are being used by the student?

Which of the following is the best definition of portfolio, as used by teachers in middle grades?

In what way does a rubric function in a classroom, grade level, or department?

Of the following, which one does NOT describe assessment?

Which of the following is true of a student who recognizes about 95% of the words in a passage and understands 75%?

A __________ describes the levels of performance that a student must demonstrate relative to a particular achievement goal, whether the performance is written or oral.

__________ are scores that have been converted into nine equally spaced units, with 1 being low and 9 being high.

How can a retelling be beneficial to assessing reading comprehension?

What would be the most effective usage of the information gathered from a miscue analysis?

The __________ is the place where students keep all their rough drafts in various stages of the writing process and other daily compositions or reports, topics for future pieces they might like to write, and notes from minilessons.

All assessment tools have a key focus. Which of the following is an assessment tool that records coding of a student's oral reading behaviors and gauges the student's errors in the context of the language cue systems?

Useful __________ describe specific events, report rather than evaluate, and relate the events to other information about the student.

What is at the core of assessment?

A test that actually measures what it claims to be measuring is said to have __________.