What is a child's reading program should always be based on his or her strengths and weaknesses as determined by assessment and analysis?
100
Running Records
What are annotated copies with miscues and other reading behaviors noted?
100
Formative Evaluation
What is continuous and is used to improve instruction?
100
Reliability
What is the measure of how stable test scores are?
100
Time in student teaching
What is 13 weeks or 65 days?
200
Begin the reading instruction at the child's present level and move forward from there
What is it is important to present and practice reading skills at the child's independent or high instructional levels so that he or she can experience as much success as possible?
200
Informal Reading Inventory
What is given at the beginning of the year; shows oral and silent reading rates, oral reading accuracy, types of miscues that occurred and comprehension after oral and silent reading of passages at successive grade levels?
200
Summative Evaluation
What is takes place near the end of a predetermined period of time, evaliates the effectiveness of instruction?
200
Stability
What is the students' rank order would remain very similar from one test to another; uses the test-retest method?
200
Field Experience hours
What are 100 hours?
300
Use a variety of motivating reading strategies, materials reproducibles and games
What is the best way to improve reading skills is to read?
300
Observation Records
What are notes taken while the student is working in a variety learning situations?
300
Authentic Assessment
What is usually informal, it is often more useful than are standardized tests; these type of assessment procedures normally reflect the actual instruction activities in the classroom?
300
Internal Consistency
What is the degree to which items within a test are related?
300
ESL,LEP, or Bilungual Students
What are students who speak English as a second language; they make up the most rapidly expanding population in North American schools?
400
Emphasize both "real reading" materials and reading skills instruction both in and out of context
What are informational books, children's magazines, children's newspapers, Internet materials?
400
Cloze procedures
What are reading passages with words systematically deleted and replaced by blanks to be filled in by the reader?
400
Raw score
Percentile rank
Stanine
What is the total number of correct answers?
What is point on a scale from 1 to 99 that indicates the number of students who received an equal or lower score?
What is the point on a nine-point scale with 5 being average?
400
Equivalance
What are alternate forms that are used for pretesting and posttesting; must be highly equivalent if the scores are to be useful?
400
Special Needs Students
What is reading teachers must have a deep belief in the worth of students, have an accpeting attitude toward them and their unique characteristics and give them unqualified support?
500
Use extrinsic rewards and behavior modification when appropriate
What is reading for information and pleasure should be its own reward; they are not ideal but they may be necessary until reading itself provides the necessary reward?
500
Portfolio
What is contains work samples that the student and teacher chose; show the student's progress and what he or she is learning and their growth?
500
Criterion-Referenced Assessment
What is type of authentic assessment;formal measures designed to focus on a child's mastery of a specific reading skill or skills; benchmarks and rubris are used to assess?
500
Validity
What is measuring what was supposed to be measured?
500
Bell Curve
What is the distribution of scores as a visual representation of a group's performance on a given test?