The most important purpose of an Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) is to

establish independent, instructional, and frustration levels

An advantage of using portfolios and scoring rubrics is that they

promote self-evaluation opportunities for students

If a standardized test lacks reliability, it...

gives fluctuating scores in different administrations

The comprehension level of a fourth grade ELL varies widely with text books. What do you do?

Determine if the student has background knowledge of topic

What is the primary advantage of a retelling over asking comprehension questions?

Retellings are open-ended and involve student construction

Validity considerations of a test relate most closely to:

whether the test measures the content

Which informal assessment tells you if a K student has phonemic awareness?

Student can identify beginning sound of a word, Students can substitute phonemes, Student claps syllables in words

Which of the following criteria is important for choosing books for beginning readers?

Use of repeated words and common language structures

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The most important purpose of an Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) is to
learn prior knowledge and text structure impacts comp.
establish independent, instructional, and frustration levels
analyze how silent reading impacts comp.
determine how students use semantic and syntactic cues
2
A teacher shows students a dog, prompts them to say the word, and count how many sounds.
Phonemic awareness skills
Word identification skills
Letter-sound correspondence
Alphabetic principle
3
An advantage of using portfolios and scoring rubrics is that they
provide more objective results than multiple-choice tests
offer reliable assessment data
promote self-evaluation opportunities for students
ensure consistency among evaluators
4
If a standardized test lacks reliability, it...
gives fluctuating scores in different administrations
is not measuring what it's supposed to measure
has poor predictive value of a student's class performance
has not been proven as a useful intervention
5
A student read this sentence as shown, and then self-corrected. How could the teacher support?
Enhance students' oral vocabulary development
Improve decoding skills
Promote the students' ability to track print
Develop self-monitoring skills
6
The comprehension level of a fourth grade ELL varies widely with text books. What do you do?
Determine if the student has a specific learning disability
Assess the student's decoding and word analysis skills
Assess the students' first language literacy?
Determine if the student has background knowledge of topic
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What is the primary advantage of a retelling over asking comprehension questions?
Retellings are more familiar to a wider range of students
Retellings are open-ended and involve student construction
Retellings are the only way to demonstrate inferences
Results are more objective and easy to quantify
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Validity considerations of a test relate most closely to:
whether the test measures the content
whether the results will be repeated with a different group
how one test taker's score relates to his classmates
how the test taker's score relates to the standard
9
Which informal assessment tells you if a K student has phonemic awareness?
Student can identify beginning sound of a word
Students can substitute phonemes
Student claps syllables in words
Student can delete second word in a compound word
10
Which of the following criteria is important for choosing books for beginning readers?
Emphasized use of literary language and dialogue
Wide range of punctuation and rich vocabulary
Require problem solving to connect text to illustrations
Use of repeated words and common language structures
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Which of the following assessments tells you about the comparative reading ability of students?
A norm-referenced test
Diagnostic portfolios
Reading miscue inventory
Test of vocabulary development

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