One of the primary tools for the transmission of cultural values, beliefs, and attitudes.
What is language?
100
A literacy approach that integrates phonics, skills, and meaning.
What is balanced literacy?
100
At this stage, spellers are beginning to experiment with the written word through the use of pictures, scribbles, and attempts at creating letters.
What is emergent spelling?
100
This type of assessment provides a measure of knowledge or skills on termination of instruction.
What is a summative assessment?
100
This form is given to parents during registration and, depending on the response, may trigger language testing.
What is the Home Language Survey?
200
Vocabulary function in which a person can listen to words and/or read words and understand their meaning without being required to use the word in oral or written conversation.
What is receptive vocabulary?
200
Making sense from a printed text through the use of the graphophonic, semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic cueing systems.
What is reading?
200
At this stage, students are spelling words conventionally but they are also able to form complete sentences with correct syntactic features.
What is letter-name alphabetic spelling?
200
This type of assessments arise from opportunities inherent in the educational activities that teachers plan.
What are structured authentic assessments?
200
The range of programs and supports to which exceptional students are entitled by law.
What is special education?
300
A stage of language acquisition in which the student responds through the use of gestures, pointing to pictures, objects, or people.
What is the silent period?
300
The ability to distinguish visual images of varying sizes, shapes, colors, and contrasts at different distances.
What is visual acuity?
300
The ability to appropriately connect the letters of the alphabet in the proper sequence in oder to form words.
What is orthographic knowledge?
300
In Texas schools, English learners (ELLs) take this test, which is aligned with the ELPS.
What is the TELPAS?
300
Over-representation and under-representation of groups of students in certain programs are exponents of this phenomenon.
What is disproportionality?
400
A state of language acquisition in which the student has a well-developed listening vocabulary level and a fairly solid speaking vocabulary level.
What is intermediate fluency.
400
At this stage, students are able to read in meaningful phrases with a comfortable pace and appropriate voice intonation.
What is transitional readers?
400
This assessment was created to accurately assess a student's level of orthographic knowledge.
What is the Qualitative Spelling Inventory?
400
Expanding allowed time to take a test or simplifying the language of the test are examples of this.
What are assessment adaptations for English learners?
400
The ability of an assessment to measure the skills that it is intended to measure.
What is validity.
500
The point at which a person can go no further in a test.
What is the ceiling level?
500
The ability to hear all of the differences in sounds and words in speech.
What is phonemic awareness?
500
In this format, students are given a voice with which to express their ideas, beliefs, and desires through writing.
What is a writer's workshop?
500
These assessments provide information about the students' learning while instruction is occurring.
What are formative assessments?
500
The power of an assessment to gather consistent evidence of skills regardless of the examiner, time, place, or other variables.