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

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

Validity considerations of a test relate most closely to:

whether the test measures the content

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

Use of repeated words and common language structures

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

establish independent, instructional, and frustration levels

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

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