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provides more reliable assessments for students at the extremes of ability
What is one key benefit for using the computer adaptive Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading?
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Reading Comprehension and Word Analysis
Which tasks are adaptive based on student performance?
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Fluency is the bridge between decoding/word recognition capabilities and comprehension.
Why is is important to measure a student's ability to read fluently?
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Level 1 and 2 on FCAT
Which students are required by the state to be progress monitored?
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text reading efficiency
According to the Assessment/Curriculum Decision Tree for Reading Improvement for the Florida Assessments for Instructions in Reading, if a 7th grade student scores in the 18th percentile on the Maze task and 40th percentile on the Word Analysis task, what type of skill instruction is recommended for this student?
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The FAIR is an assessment for learning and the FCAT is an outcome measure.
How is the Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading different from the reading portion of the FCAT?
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letter-sound correspondences and complex syllable patterns
What skills are assessed by the Word Analysis task?
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Two per assessment period
How many MAZE passages are administered during the Targeted Diagnostic Inventory?
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No, because of the wide range of probability scores in the Yellow Success Zone it is important to look beyond the color
Do all students scoring in the Yellow Success Zone on the Broad Screen require the same intensity of instruction?
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context free word reading ability and orthographic knowledge
After completing administration of the FAIR, a teacher determines that she needs additional diagnostic information on five of her students who score at risk on the MAZE and Word Analysis tasks. What are two types of information she could gain from using the Informal Diagnostic Toolkit?
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to determine if students are having difficulty at the word reading level
What is the purpose for administering the Word Analysis task to students who have an FCAT Success Probability <85%?
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Instructional Level passages with questions/response templates (scaffolded discussion templates)
After completing the FAIR assessments, a teacher determines that eight students need additional instruction on how to approach a selection of text to accurately answer comprehension questions. Which instructional resource found in the Informal Diagnostic Toolkit would best meet this need?
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to assess student text reading efficiency
What is the purpose for administering the MAZE task of the FAIR?
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MAZE task
What Ongoing Progress Monitoring tool is available for students in grades 6-12?
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enhanced intervention with a focus on comprehension strategy instruction
According the the Assessment/Curriculum Decision Tree for Reading Improvement for the Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading, if a student who scored Level 1 on FCAT and scores in the 60th percentile on the MAZE task and 45th percentile on the Word Analysis task, what type of instruction is recommended for that student?
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The Broad Screen is used to calculate the FSP, where as the TDI does not.
How is the Broad Screen portion of the assessment different from the Targeted Diagnostic Inventory?
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85% and above
What is the percentage range for the Green Success Zone of the FCAT Success Probability?
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the amount of time a student takes and the difficulty of individual passages
In what way are the student MAZE scores adjusted?
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Ongoing Progress Monitoring
If a student scores below the 30th percentile on the MAZE task, what is the recommendation?
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Vocabulary Inventory
What is a tool not available in the Informal Diagnostic Tool Kit?
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the probability that a student will achieve a Level 3 or higher on the FCAT
What does the FCAT Success Probability (FSP) score tell us?
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information on dosage through the instructional change table and graphical representation of the data through charts and tables
What key pieces of data essential to RTI are provided on the OPM report?
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the student's average performance
What does the adjusted MAZE score indicate about a student's performance across grade level passages?
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OCPS
Students identified with a reading deficiency must be progress monitored with an assessment such as the FAIR. Who determines the criteria for identifying students with a reading deficiency?
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The Informal Diagnostic Toolkit
Which portion of the assessment is administered entirely via paper/pencil?
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