Literacy
Assessment
CBA
Informal Assessment Approaches
Review
100

Literacy is linked to

What is achievement?

100

True or false: When assessing students with special needs, administrators need to take careful considerations. 

True

100

The reason for assessments in schools.

What is gathering information, screenings, eligibility, and referrals?

100

An example of an informal assessment approach (many right answers)

What is

•Probes

•Error Analysis

•Cloze Procedures

•Think-Alouds

•Retelling

•Oral Descriptions

•Written Descriptions

•Checklists and questionnaires

•Interviews

•Conferences

•Students’ journals notebooks and blogs

•Performance-based assessments

•Portfolios

•Exhibitions

•Self-Assessment

•Peer assessment

100

IDEA stands for

What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?

200
Literacy involves being able to read, write, think, and ________________

What is communicate?

200

Assessing students with special needs should include a _________ of observations that consider the complexity of cognitive processes

What is Variety?

200

The action taking for a student with the use of assessment data.

What is instructional decisions. 

200
The informal assessment where a teacher selects a passage to be read and reproduces it, leaving out every fifth word.

What is Cloze Procedures?

200

RTI stands for

What is Response to Intervention?

300

True or false: Being able to read and write, is linked to success in almost every career.

True

300
When choosing assessments for students with special needs these are important qualities.

What is 

- age appropriate tasks?

- unbiased tools?

- high quality texts? 

- various genres? 

300

How assessments aid in student academic and behavior goals.

What is measuring progress. 

300

An informal assessment where students verbalize their thoughts about a text before, during, or after reading.

What is Think-Alouds?

300
The RTI Tier that attends to students in an individualized and intensive way. 

What is Tier 3?

400
The amount of students expected to have literacy skills.

What is all?

400

Assessment approaches for students with special needs consider these two pieces 

What is background knowledge and prior experiences?

400

Assessment impact on classrooms.

What is assessments guide classroom instruction.

400

An comprehension exercise in which a student retells as much of a test as can be remembered after reading it.

What is Retelling?

400

Some of the benefits of assessments in school include: (Name at least one)

What is 

- gathering information?

- screening?

- eligibility?

- referrals?

500

Name an assessment tool that assessing literacy (multiple right answers)

What is 

- Woodcock Reading Mastery Test-Revised/Normative Update?

- Gray Oral Reading Tests- Fifth edition (GORT-5)?

- Curriculum-based measures?

500
There must be a direct linkage between the _____________ and assessment tasks.

What is curriculum?

500

Assessments largest impact on students and families.

What is eligibility for special education/services/IEP/504?

500

The informal assessment approach that do not require conducting anything, but reviewing existing matierals.

What is 

- conferences?

- student journals, notebooks, social media posts?

500

The stability or consistency of test performance.

What is reliability?

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