Deck 2: Assessment of Progress in Literacy

Question 1

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?

A) Cloze tests
B) Running records
C) Standardized tests
D) Portfolios

Answer 1

B

Question 2

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

A) The types of books s/he likes
B) How the student feels about reading at home
C) Student comprehension level of books read at home
D) How the student feels about reading in school

Answer 2

C

Question 3

One portion of an oral reading from an informal reading inventory (IRI) passage revealed the following miscue: TEXT: "Perhaps your mother is right, Margaret," her father said. STUDENT: "Probably your mother is right, Margaret," her father said. Which of the following language cue systems are being used by the student?

A) Only graphophonemic (visual)
B) Only semantic (meaning)
C) Only syntactic (structure)
D) Semantic and syntactic

Answer 3

D

Question 4

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?

A) Only graphophonemic (visual)
B) Graphophonemic and syntactic
C) Only syntactic (structure)
D) Semantic and syntactic

Question 5

How can a retelling be beneficial to assessing reading comprehension?

A) The student's recall of passage elements is made apparent.
B) A retelling provides an oral gauge of fluency.
C) A retelling aids the teacher in observing a student's speaking and listening skills.
D) Retellings highlight summarization skills.

Question 6

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

A) She has almost no chance of comprehending what she is reading.
B) She is reading at the frustration level.
C) She is reading at the instructional level.
D) She is reading at the independent level.

Question 7

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:

A) Ranking of students in the class
B) Running record data
C) Retelling comprehension checklists
D) Dated observation notes

Question 8

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

A) This information will best be used to obtain the average in reading grades for the upcoming report card.
B) The teacher will be able to take these scores and put them in the student's portfolio as an indicator of how well each student reads. No follow-up miscue analysis is necessary until the school district requests the data again.
C) The data from the miscue analysis will provide a basis for instructional strategies needed for each student on an individual basis. The data can also be used to provide information for placing students in small reading groups according to need.
D) The classroom curriculum should be based on the teacher's manual for the language arts program. All students should be reading in the designated text during the language arts period. The miscue analysis will point out the students who need to do more re-reading in each reading unit.

Question 9

Of the following, which one does NOT describe assessment?

A) A process of gathering information about student abilities
B) Collecting information solely from standardized tests
C) A process of looking at how instruction impacts student learning
D) Students performing to a set of identified criteria

Question 10

What is at the core of assessment?

A) Testing
B) Identifying student weaknesses
C) Teacher initiated and evaluated
D) Daily observation

Question 11

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

A) It helps students judge their product or performance.
B) It helps teachers provide clear, focused expectations for the learner.
C) It is a means to communicate to parents about expectations and progress of skills and knowledge.
D) All of the above.

Question 12

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

A) A way to keep one's finances in order
B) A collection of artifacts accompanied by reflection about why the piece was selected.
C) A big box to hold important papers
D) A system of writing

Question 13

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.

Question 14

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.

Question 15

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.

Question 16

Establishing whether or not a text is at the appropriate instructional level for a student using a cloze test is referred to as establishing __________.

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

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 __________

Question 22

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