Scores
The average Standard Score on most academic assessments.
The most common academic assessment tool.
What is the Woodcock Johnson?
What CALP stands for.
The term which means understanding language.
What is Receptive Language?
The most important purpose of academic assessment.
What is Instructional Decision-Making
What a percentile rank tells you.
What is How a student compares to same-age/grade peers?
Kaufman's answer to the Woodcock Johnson?
What BICS stands for.
What is Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills?
An oral language skill which involves understanding and following multi-step directions.
What is Listening Comprehension?
One of many supports for CALP development.
What are Vocabulary instruction, sentence frames, visuals, etc.?
The range of performance a Standard Score of 78 falls in.
What is below average?
Wechsler's answer to the Woodcock Johnson.
What is the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test?
Between BICS and CALP, the one that develops fastest.
What is BICS?
Academic skill that oral language is most directly related to.
What is Reading Comprehension?
A reason vocabulary instruction is key to CALP development.
What is It supports comprehension and access to academic content?
The reason Grade Equivalents are not recommended for instructional decisions.
What is They do not reflect actual skill level or progress across skills?
An academic assessment tool SMBSD uses for some of our youngest learners.
What is the Young Children's Achievement Test.
The highest CALP level?
What is Very Advanced?
An aspect of oral language which includes understanding and using words appropriately?
What is Vocabulary?
This framework focuses on designing instruction that meets the needs of all learners from the start.
What is Universal Design for Learning?
The most reliable measure/score produced by formal academic assessments to support instructional decision-making.
What are Standard Scores or Percentile Ranks?
An alternative assessment tool available in SMBSD for students with more functional needs.
What is the SANDI?
A likely explanation when a student struggles with Reading Comprehension, but speaks fluently with peers.
What is a low CALP level?
The most common oral-language related reason a student can decode, but not understand the text?
What is weak vocabulary/academic language (CALP)?
Breaking multi-step directions into smaller parts is an example of this instructional strategy.
What is chunking?