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?

Students can substitute phonemes, Student can identify beginning sound of a word, 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

An advantage of using portfolios and scoring rubrics is that they

promote self-evaluation opportunities for students

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

Retellings are open-ended and involve student construction

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

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

establish independent, instructional, and frustration levels

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Foundations of Reading Assessment Questions

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A student read this sentence as shown, and then self-corrected. How could the teacher support?
Promote the students' ability to track print
Enhance students' oral vocabulary development
Improve decoding skills
Develop self-monitoring skills
2
Validity considerations of a test relate most closely to:
whether the test measures the content
how the test taker's score relates to the standard
whether the results will be repeated with a different group
how one test taker's score relates to his classmates
3
Which informal assessment tells you if a K student has phonemic awareness?
Student can delete second word in a compound word
Students can substitute phonemes
Student can identify beginning sound of a word
Student claps syllables in words
4
Which of the following criteria is important for choosing books for beginning readers?
Require problem solving to connect text to illustrations
Wide range of punctuation and rich vocabulary
Use of repeated words and common language structures
Emphasized use of literary language and dialogue
5
An advantage of using portfolios and scoring rubrics is that they
promote self-evaluation opportunities for students
offer reliable assessment data
provide more objective results than multiple-choice tests
ensure consistency among evaluators
6
What is the primary advantage of a retelling over asking comprehension questions?
Retellings are more familiar to a wider range of students
Results are more objective and easy to quantify
Retellings are the only way to demonstrate inferences
Retellings are open-ended and involve student construction
7
If a standardized test lacks reliability, it...
has poor predictive value of a student's class performance
is not measuring what it's supposed to measure
gives fluctuating scores in different administrations
has not been proven as a useful intervention
8
The comprehension level of a fourth grade ELL varies widely with text books. What do you do?
Assess the students' first language literacy?
Determine if the student has a specific learning disability
Determine if the student has background knowledge of topic
Assess the student's decoding and word analysis skills
9
A teacher shows students a dog, prompts them to say the word, and count how many sounds.
Phonemic awareness skills
Word identification skills
Alphabetic principle
Letter-sound correspondence
10
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
11
The most important purpose of an Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) is to
analyze how silent reading impacts comp.
determine how students use semantic and syntactic cues
establish independent, instructional, and frustration levels
learn prior knowledge and text structure impacts comp.

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