LETRS: Unit 1 Assessment Questions and Answers Graded A
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Many screening measures can be considered diagnostic since they provide extremely detailed data about a students skills in particular literacy domains. - ANSWER False
If a student needs work on phonics and decoding, what kind of informal diagnostic assessment would provide the most useful inform...
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LETRS: Unit 1 Assessment Questions and Answers Graded A
Many screening measures can be considered diagnostic since they provide extremely detailed data about a students skills in particular literacy domains. - ANSWER False
If a student needs work on phonics and decoding, what kind of informal diagnostic assessment would provide the most useful information on how to help this student with these skills? - ANSWER A word-reading survey to show which sound-symbol correspondences the student knows and which ones still need practice.
Which of the following is not an area of inquiry to include in a comprehensive diagnostic assessment of a potential reading disorder? - ANSWER social interactions
Which of the following is an area of inquiry to include in a comprehensive diagnostic assessment of a potential reading disorder? - ANSWER spelling, handwriting, and single-word decoding
Which of these literacy skills have students typically mastered by the end of third grade?
- ANSWER advanced phonemic awareness, inflectional morphology, fluent recognition of word families (rime patterns)
Cody is in first grade. He almost never raises his hand to participate in class discussions. When called on, he replies very briefly. He tends to use vague words like stuff and rarely uses full sentences. During decoding exercises, he reads words accurately and easily recognizes common patterns; he is a good speller. When he reads stories aloud, he reads fairly accurately but in an expressionless monotone. Which assessment would be most likely to yield valuable information about Cody? - ANSWER reading a story to him and having him orally retell it
In what grade(s) is basic phonological awareness mainly practiced? - ANSWER K-1
In what grade(s) is phoneme-grapheme correspondences mainly practiced? - ANSWER
K-2
In what grade(s) do most students have 300-500 sight words? - ANSWER 1-2
In what grade(s) is inflectional morphology mainly practiced? - ANSWER 1-3
In what grade(s) is advanced phonemic awareness mainly practiced? - ANSWER 2-3
In what grade(s) is common syllables and syllabification mainly practiced? - ANSWER 2-4 In what grade(s) is morphology derived from Anglo-Saxon and Latin mainly practiced? - ANSWER 3-6
In what grade(s) is Greek-derived morphemes mainly practiced? - ANSWER 5-7+
Large-scale studies have shown that about half of first-graders who struggle with reading will catch up by third grade without any special interventions. - ANSWER False
What is the primary purpose of progress-monitoring assessments? - ANSWER They help teachers determine if a particular instructional approach is working to bring a student closer to a target level of reading skill.
Which characteristics describe typical outcome assessments? - ANSWER designed to measure passage comprehension, useful for comparing individuals to norms for a given
age or grade level
Which is a common limitation of screening measures? - ANSWER Their conservative benchmarks result in false positives-children identified as poor readers even though they will later develop adequate reading skills.
For an assessment to be useful in a school setting, which three psychometric criteria are the most important? - ANSWER reliable, valid, efficient
Efficiency - ANSWER characteristic of assessments that can be given quickly at fairly low cost while yielding valuable information
Validity - ANSWER Characteristic of assessments that measure what is intended, correspond well to other known measures, and predict fairly accurately how students will perform on accountability measures
Reliability - ANSWER Characteristic of assessments that are likely to yield the same result if given several times on the same day in the same context
Normed - ANSWER Characteristic of assessments that tell where a student stands in relation to others at his or her grade or age level.
Diagnostic - ANSWER A test given by a speech-language pathologist to determine whether a student meets criteria for a specific disorder.
Monitoring - ANSWER A test given every two weeks to determine whether a new reading program is helping at-risk students learn decoding skills
Outcome - ANSWER A high-stakes state reading comprehension test administered to all students at the end of third grade
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