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

establish independent, instructional, and frustration levels

Validity considerations of a test relate most closely to:

whether the test measures the content

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

Retellings are open-ended and involve student construction

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

Students can substitute phonemes

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

An advantage of using portfolios and scoring rubrics is that they

promote self-evaluation opportunities for students

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

Use of repeated words and common language structures

If a standardized test lacks reliability, it...

gives fluctuating scores in different administrations

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1
A student read this sentence as shown, and then self-corrected. How could the teacher support?
Improve decoding skills
Enhance students' oral vocabulary development
Promote the students' ability to track print
Develop self-monitoring skills
2
The most important purpose of an Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) is to
establish independent, instructional, and frustration levels
analyze how silent reading impacts comp.
learn prior knowledge and text structure impacts comp.
determine how students use semantic and syntactic cues
3
Validity considerations of a test relate most closely to:
how the test taker's score relates to the standard
whether the test measures the content
how one test taker's score relates to his classmates
whether the results will be repeated with a different group
4
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
5
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
Student can delete second word in a compound word
6
The comprehension level of a fourth grade ELL varies widely with text books. What do you do?
Assess the student's decoding and word analysis skills
Determine if the student has a specific learning disability
Assess the students' first language literacy?
Determine if the student has background knowledge of topic
7
An advantage of using portfolios and scoring rubrics is that they
ensure consistency among evaluators
offer reliable assessment data
provide more objective results than multiple-choice tests
promote self-evaluation opportunities for students
8
Which of the following criteria is important for choosing books for beginning readers?
Require problem solving to connect text to illustrations
Emphasized use of literary language and dialogue
Use of repeated words and common language structures
Wide range of punctuation and rich vocabulary
9
Which of the following assessments tells you about the comparative reading ability of students?
Diagnostic portfolios
Test of vocabulary development
Reading miscue inventory
A norm-referenced test
10
If a standardized test lacks reliability, it...
is not measuring what it's supposed to measure
has not been proven as a useful intervention
gives fluctuating scores in different administrations
has poor predictive value of a student's class performance
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A teacher shows students a dog, prompts them to say the word, and count how many sounds.
Alphabetic principle
Letter-sound correspondence
Phonemic awareness skills
Word identification skills

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