Diagnostic Testing
Designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area, rather than what you have been taught in a classroom.
What is an ability test?
Open speech sounds produced by the easy, unhindered passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract.
What is a vowel?
This flat, horizontal diacritical mark is placed above a vowel in dictionary notation to explicitly show it makes a long sound.
What is a macron?
The number of words a student can read flawlessly and correctly within a given period of time.
What is accuracy?
The overarching structural aspect of language that is deeply concerned with meaning, including vocabulary and text comprehension.
What is semantics?
Standardized tests used specifically to measure the academic progress, growth, and instruction-based achievements of a student.
What are academic achievement tests?
A letter or group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that alters its meaning or grammatical form.
What is an affix?
This curved diacritical mark indicates a short vowel sound in a closed syllable where at least one consonant follows it.
What is a breve?
The raw speed or number of words that a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time.
What is rate?
The set of rules that dictates proper behavior for communication intentions, social interactions, and conversational discourse.
What is pragmatics?
Comprehensive, end-of-the-year exams that directly reflect the specific subject matter covered in a school's taught curriculum.
What is a curriculum-referenced test?
An affix specifically attached to the beginning of a word to change its core meaning.
What is a prefix?
The curved line placed beneath the letter "c" to remind students to give it a soft /s/ pronunciation.
What is a cedilla?
The ultimate goal of reading: making sense of what we read by combining word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, and world knowledge.
What is comprehension?
A language, such as English, that is historically built from, and derived from, several completely different languages.
What is a polyglot?
A group of several standardized tests administered to the exact same population so that their results are statistically compatible with one another.
What is a battery?
Two adjacent letters that work together to represent a single consonant sound.
What is a consonant digraph?
This wavy diacritical marking is placed over any r-controlled vowel when its pronunciation is unaccented.
What is a tilde?
A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require active, conscious decoding to identify.
What is a sight word?
The writing system of a language, defining standard and correct spelling according to established historical usage.
What is orthography?
The specific numerical transformation process where raw test scores are systematically converted into standard scores.
What is a derived score?
Four adjacent letters that work together to form a single, unified speech sound, such as "eigh."
What is a quadrigraph?
True or False: The tilde is strictly used in student coding and sound pictures when an r-controlled vowel falls on an accented syllable.
What is False? (It is used when it is unaccented).
Words that are able to be broken apart into pieces by looking at the positions of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce them.
What are phonemic (or decodable) words?
These four distinct domains make up the entire system of human language
What are phonology, syntax, morphology, and orthography?
Gray Oral Reading Test: provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in diagnosis of reading difficulties
Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder, longer, and in a higher tone. The speakers mouth opens wider.
What is accent?
A syllable ending with a long vowel sound
What is an open syllable?
the ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
What is Fluency?
origin or derivation of a word
Wechler Individual Achievement Test
What is the WIAT?
a spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and may include consonants that proceed or follow the vowel.
What is a syllable?
A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
What is a closed syllable?
most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading, must be explicitly taught, must be systematically organized and sequence, must include learning how to blend sounds together.
What is Phonics?
set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning: must include grammar, sentence types, and mechanics of language
What is Syntax?