Assessments
Name the assessment that we learned about that does not assess students, but rather assesses text.
Readability
Name 2 assessments we learned about that can be used effectively for potential progress monitoring of your tutoring student
Word List Assessment, Diagnostic Decoding Survey, Fluency Assessments, Letter ID Generator, Benchmark Assessment Decoding Skills
Stanford Achievement Tests, Iowa Achievement Tests and California Achievement Tests are all examples of what kind of test?
Norm-referenced assessments
With regard to reading, what can you do with the Ohio Achievement Tests or Norm-referenced tests?
Use to improve classroom instruction, use at the beginning of the next school year for large picture view of student ability
Your Kindergarten team leader has asked you to divide the books in your classroom library in a way that students will be able to select texts that they can read. What assessment might you use to accomplish this goal?
Readability or Leveled Book Levels
Name two types of assessments that are standardized tests which are not selected by the classroom teachers.
Norm-referenced & State tests
You are involved in universal testing for RTI Tier 1. Your school has chosen to use MAP as a CBM to monitor students’ reading progress over time, but you recognize that one type of testing will not be sufficient to show students’ abilities. What other assessment or assessments might you give periodically to give evidence for students reading progress AND to help guide your instruction?
Fluency Assessment
DIBELS and Aimsweb are sets of parallel reading passages that students read aloud, and by which they are assessed for reading rate, decoding errors and comprehension. They are used to monitor progress over time. What are these type of assessments called?
Curriculum Based Measures
On what basis are students evaluated with Norm-referenced tests?
Based on nationally normed scores from the total number of students who have take the assessment
Which assessment is a set or collection of assessments that test a wide range of reading sub-skills?
Informal Reading Inventory
Name 3 assessments that measure decoding skills.
Fluency Assessment, Names Test, Diagnostic Decoding Survey, Benchmark Decoding Survey
Freida is not making adequate progress. The intervention team asks you to do some testing to identify her current ability in phonemic awareness, word attack skills and reading comprehension. What assessment includes all those assessments?
Informal Reading Inventory OR Comprehensive Reading Inventory (IRI or CRI)
You are given the task of dividing your third grade class of students into reading groups designed to address particular reading needs. What assessments might you use to accomplish this goal if you have no time to do one-on-one testing?
Cloze/Maze, CBM, State Assessment (at the beginning of the year)
When you arrive as a new teacher in your 2nd grade classroom, you get a set of results from the previous year’s Ohio Achievement tests. It indicates that 1/3 of your class is working at the accelerate/advanced stage, 1/3 is proficient and 1/3 is working at the limited or basic stage. How will you use these results? What is your next step?
Use them to develop initial groups for learning, use as a basis for choosing further assessments
Which assessment does not require a specialized test form and can be done whenever a student is reading aloud?
Oral Reading Fluency
What is the primary consideration when choosing a progress monitoring assessment?
Alignment with the learning target
Your Intervention team is debating which one reading assessment will be able to adequately test all the students’ reading abilities and progress across the school year. What will you tell them?
CBM, MAP, or Fluency Assessments
Name two types of assessments that teachers are likely to have available to them at the beginning of a school year and which may give them helpful information with regard to their students’ reading abilities.
CBM from the previous year, State Assessment
Which assessment may be given as an interview, and used not only to find out about a student’s reading history and habits, but also to evaluate their oral language abilities?
Reading Interest Inventory
An oral test that measures the student's ability to segment phonemes.
Yopp-Singer Test
What kinds of assessments may be used for documenting reading progress over time? Name 3.
Informal Reading Inventory, CBM, Diagnostic Decoding Survey, Benchmark Assessment: Decoding, MAP Test, Oral Reading Fluency
A student has demonstrated weakness in reading comprehension. Which of the following assessments would allow for targeted progress monitoring?
Fluency Assessment
Name two assessments that MUST be administered one-on-one.
Informal Reading Inventory, Diagnostic Decoding Survey, Names Test, Yopp-Singer Test, Benchmark Assessment: Phonological Awareness, Benchmark Assessment: Decoding, Oral Reading Fluency
Your school has implemented an after-school reading program to encourage independent reading. Your supervisor has asked you to do some assessments that will allow the school to purchase appropriate books for the students. What assessments might you use? Explain your answer.
Fluency Assessments, Diagnostic Decoding Survey, Cloze/Maze, Reading Interest Inventory
Give an example of a formative assessment
Exit Ticket, Weekly Quiz, Group Work, Surveys, Homework, Self Assessments