Deck 2: Assessment and Intervention

Question 1

One chief advantage in using standardized tests is that

A)they furnish a good basis for grading students.
B)teachers can compare their groups of students with other groups in similar situations.
C)they can be given at frequent intervals throughout the year.
D)they are good measures of the teacher's effectiveness.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Teachers interview students about their attitudes, interests, and progress in reading and writing during _______.

Answer 2

conferences

Question 3

What is true of a rubric?

A)It provides specific criteria for describing student performance.
B)It gives frustration, instructional, independent, and capacity levels.
C)It is a norm-referenced test.
D)It measures skill mastery.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

A child reads "John called his mom" instead of "John called his mother." What does this tell us about the student's miscue?

A)The child is focusing on phonics to decode words.
B)The child is not reading for meaning.
C)The miscue is not important; the child simply used a more familiar term.
D)The child is using syntactic cues incorrectly.

Question 5

Most schools administer _______ tests in the spring or fall of every year to measure the academic gains of students.

Question 6

A criterion-referenced test

A)assesses a student's intellectual capacity.
B)measures a student's mastery of a specific skill.
C)compares a student's reading progress with that of other children across the nation.
D)evaluates a student's interest in reading.

Question 7

The most useful type of assessment for classroom teachers is

A)day-to-day observation.
B)an informal reading inventory.
C)a diagnostic test.
D)a standardized achievement test.

Question 8

Response to intervention (RTI)

A)provides an instructional framework for continuous assessment.
B)provides an instructional framework for intervention.
C)Neither A nor B.
D)Both A and B.

Question 9

A readability formula

A)provides information about potential student interest in the text.
B)ranks text by numerical values based on syntactic and semantic difficulty.
C)calculates the amount of background knowledge needed for successful interaction with the text.
D)measures the effect of the author's writing style on the reader.

Question 10

Written accounts of specific classroom incidents are called

A)informal reading inventories.
B)portfolios.
C)anecdotal records.
D)running records.

Question 11

The standards movement led to all of the following except

A)a requirement for all states to adopt the Common Core State Standards
B)an emphasis on accountability
C)increased pressure for individual teachers and students
D)high-stakes testing

Question 12

All of the following are potential abilities/actions of readers who possess metacognitive skills except

A)they ask themselves questions while reading.
B)they assess the difficulty of an assignment.
C)they consider the strategies they might use when reading or completing an assignment.
D)they do not notice when they make an oral reading error.

Question 13

On a day-to-day basis, a teacher uses _______ assessment approaches.

Question 14

As of 2015, 42 states have adopted uniform curriculum outcome statements called _______ _______ _______ _______, which affect nearly every content area.

Question 15

A running record

A)provides insights into a student's reading strengths and weaknesses.
B)groups students by stanines.
C)determines the percentage of skill mastery.
D)gives grade-equivalent scores.

Question 16

_______ occurs when students repeat something they have heard or read.

Question 17

A score of less than 90 percent on word recognition or less than 50 percent on comprehension represents the

A)frustration level.
B)capacity level.
C)independent level.
D)instructional level.

Question 18

Observation strategies include all of the following except

A)anecdotal records.
B)checklists.
C)rating scales.
D)criterion referenced assessments.

Question 19

All of the following tests can be constructed by the classroom teacher except a(n)

A)oral reading checklist.
B)norm-referenced test.
C)informal reading inventory.
D)sight vocabulary test.

Question 20

Methods for identifying the difficulty of texts include each of the following except

A)cloze tests.
B)curriculum-based measurements.
C)readability tests.
D)text leveling.

Question 21

List two potential benefits of the use of rubrics in the classroom.

Question 22

You notice that several of your students do not seem to be aware of how they learn, nor do they possess knowledge of their personal strengths and weaknesses related to reading and writing.
Create a checklist that students could use to self-assess their use of metacognitive skills. Include 5 additional prompts to the checklist that has been started for you. ​

Question 23

What is the value of teacher observation in analyzing a child's strengths and weaknesses in language development?

Question 24

What are some questions teachers should ask themselves about students' oral reading errors when conducting a miscue analysis?

Question 25

You are meeting with the parents of Stella, a student in your first-grade classroom, to discuss Stella's reading progress. You show the parents the graph (below)of Stella's curriculum-based measurement (CBM-R)oral reading fluency (ORF)assessment for the past eight weeks. What will you say to the parents? First, briefly describe the ORF to the parents. Next, tell the parents what the graph indicates regarding Stella's progress in oral reading fluency. Write your response as if you are speaking with the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hall.

Question 26

Case analysis: Jeremy has just been placed in your class, and you know nothing about him. There are no records, and you have had no opportunity to talk with his parents. How will you get information that will help you know what kind of reading instruction he needs? Describe two types of assessments you can administer in your classroom.

Question 27

One advantage of using portfolios is that they are not only helpful for assessing students' progress. What is another advantage?

Question 28

Discuss some advantages and disadvantages for administering curriculum-based measurements (CBMs).

Question 29

Teachers who keep artifacts or samples of students' work in folders for an extended period of time to evaluate their progress are practicing __________ assessment.

Question 30

To find out if a textbook is likely to be easy or difficult for students, the teacher may administer a_______ test in which students fill in words that have been deleted from the text.