Reading Terms
involves being able to read, write, think, and communicate
What is Literacy?
formation of sentences and grammar rules
What is Syntax?
is one type of CBA and involves the use of standardized procedures that directly measure student progress performance. The features are:
(1) the direct link between the assessment and the student’s curriculum
(2) brief, frequent assessments
(3) multiple forms of the assessment tool
(4) the low cost of developing assessment materials
(5) a sensitivity to measuring the improvement of student performance
(CBM)
a diagnostic technique in which instruction is varied to examine whether an instructional schema is working
What is a Probe?
feedback given, can be subjective, no evidence
What is Oral Descriptions?
identifying and manipulating individual sounds
What is Phonemic Awareness?
recognizing and using words in print
What is Vocabulary?
benchmark assessments are administered three times a year, and the progress-monitoring materials can be administered more frequently. Not all subtests are administered at each grade level.
What is DIBELS?
the verbalization of a student’s thoughts about a text before, during, or after reading.
What is a think-aloud?
assessment omitting words to determine level
What is Cloze procedure?
a method of teaching people to read by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters in an alphabetic writing system.
What is Phonics?
the ability to read text, process it and understand its meaning
What is Reading Comprehension?
Instead of comparing a student’s performance to a norm group, these assessments measure a student’s performance with respect to a well-defined content domain
What is Criterion-Referenced?
to (1) identify the patterns of errors that students make in their work; (2) understand why students make the errors; and (3) provide instruction to help correct the errors.
What is Error Analysis?
a display of a student’s work that demonstrates knowledge, abilities, skills, and attitudes concerning one project or a unit of work. It offers an opportunity to summarize and to synthesize the student’s accomplishments.
What is an Exhibtion?
the study of patterns in words
What is Word Study?
a conversation about the student’s work that can include the student, educators, and parents. The participants share their views of the student’s work with the goal of providing feedback and recommendations. The discussion can be strictly verbal, or it can be recorded or summarized in written form. It is useful for diagnosis, program planning, and program evaluation.
What is Conferences?
Curriculum benchmark, Alternate forms, Sensitivity to student’s improvement, Improvement of student learning or teacher planning
What is Progress Monitoring?
the student actually retells the story read
What is Retelling?
the student analyzes their own work
What is Self-Assessment?
rate of reading (accuracy, speed, expression, comprehension)
What is Reading Fluency?
a deliberate collection of a student’s work that demonstrates the student’s efforts, progress, and achievement. When documenting and assessing reading ability, it provides information about reading, skills, comprehension, attitudes toward reading, work habits, and written communication abilities.
What is a Portfolio?
is directly linked to the students’ curriculum. Requires testing students frequently, and the results are used to guide instruction. Can be used to measure the rate of reading, reading errors, accuracy, and reading comprehension. The key assumption underlying is that a reading curriculum or basal reading series has been implemented. Teachers can use instructional materials to construct and to establish levels of competence.
What is Curriculum-Based Assessment?
(CBA)
feedback given, can still be subjective, but there is evidence of feedback
What is Written Description?
other students analyze classmates work and give feedback
What is Peer Assessment?