Assessment Overview
The process of gathering data in order to better understand strengths and weaknesses of student learning, as by observation, testing, interviews, etc. is known as...
What is "assessment"?
When students' assessment data is compared to others that are similar in age, gender, grade in school, etc., it is said that the test is a...
What is a norm-referenced test?
This is known as the collection of data used to determine whether or not instruction/intervention was successful during a certain period of time.
What is progress monitoring?
When testing a student's attitudes, feelings, self-perceptions, and motivations regarding a certain content area, you are assessing...
What are affective factors?
This rule provides information on how many consecutive items a student must answer correctly in order for earlier items (that are consequently not administered) to be scored as correct. Some instruments require four consecutively correct items, while other instruments may require up to six consecutively correct items.
What is a basal rule?
This type of test is standardized, but it differs from achievement tests in that it is used to determine a student's strength and/or weaknesses in a particular subject area.
What is a diagnostic test?
This type of assessment measures how well a student performs relative to a predetermined set of objective expectations, or set of criteria, based on the curriculum.
What is a criterion-referenced test?
These instruments are used to identify students at risk and are often implemented three times per year.
What are universal screening tools?
Teachers may assess vocabulary that falls within two different categories. These categories are known as...
What are general academic vocabulary words and discipline-specific vocabulary words?
During the QRI-6 administration, the examiner should first refer to the student's performance on this part of the assessment prior to having the student begin answering concept questions or reading the diagnostic reading leveled passages.
What are the Word Lists?
Screening, progress monitoring, and diagnostic (such as formative) assessments are used to...
What is...
inform instruction?
Testing instruments often go through a vetting process to see if they measure what they are supposed to measure and if the results are consistent. Therefore, tests are vetted to see if they are...
What is valid and reliable?
When gathering data for progress monitoring purposes, teachers often use these, a set of procedures that allows one to directly measure important skills in a relatively short time. These are known as...
What are curriculum-based measures?
Note: Reading probes might also be acceptable here.
This General Outcome Measure CBM is often used to assess a student's reading ability in a short amount of time.
What is an oral reading fluency CBM?
During the QRI-6 testing administration, the student's word lists and leveled passages results are identified in one of these three levels.
What is the independent level, the instructional level, and the frustration level?
Cloze tests, checklists, running records, miscue analysis, portfolios, and anecdotal notes are all types of this kind of assessment.
What are informal tests?
The following are known as...
1. Presentation (repeating directions, read alouds)
2. Response (marking answers in books, pointing)
3. Setting (special lighting, separate room)
4. Timing/Scheduling (extended time, frequent breaks)
What are testing accommodations?
When screening a student for their ability to identify phonemic awareness, what is one possible assessment instrument/test that can be used?
What is... (the following answers are appropriate)
1. letter-word identification or Word Attack (WJ-IV subtests)
2. Phoneme Segmentation fluency, Nonsense word fluency, Word Reading fluency (DIBELS)
3. QRI-6 Word Lists
4. Tests of Phonological Awareness (Stahl, Flanigan, McKenna (2020)
When assessing a student's ability to comprehend a passage, the examiner may choose to implement one, or both, of these reading comprehension assessments?
What are the MAZE and Cloze Assessments?
When administering the following WJ-IV subtests: Letter-Word Identification, Passage Comprehension, and Word Attack, the examiner should discontinue testing administration after this point.
What is the ceiling rule (i.e., when the student misses six consecutive items)?
Record reviews, interviews, observations, tests and/or performance-based assessments...
What are...
ways in which assessment information can be collected?
This act prohibited schools from excluding students with disabilities due to their disability, required schools to take reasonable steps to prevent harassment based on the disability, and make accommodations necessary to enable students with disabilities to participate in all activities and services.
What is the Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
School personnel collect and use assessment information to decide whether or not a student meets the state criteria for a disability condition and needs special education services. These decisions are known as...
What are eligibility decisions?
This type of assessment is often used when assessing phonological and/or phonics skills and is made up of words that are not real (i.e., pseudowords).
What are nonsense word fluency measures?
Acceptable responses may also include "word attack."
When determining the student's overall reading level for a diagnostic passage within the QRI, the examiner must take look at these two scores/levels...
What is the word identification/recognition level and the comprehension level?