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| The three primary purposes of reading assessments? |
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Entry-level-Done prior to instruction to assess students skills
Monitoring Assessment- Done during instruction to assess what the student is learning or progressing
Summative Assessment-Determines which student has achieved the content standard. Done at the end to summarize what the student has learned. |
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| A test is reliable if the results yeild consistent scores across administrations. |
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| A test is valid if it measures what it claims to measure. |
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| What are the four key points to remember about the assessment of reading development? |
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(1) Assessment is ongoing
(2) The assessment process uses multiple sources
(3) Assessment drives instruction
(4) Assessment is standards-based |
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Scores converted into years and months
6.3
Grade 6 and 3 months |
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Percentile scores are norm-references scores.
40th percentile (student did better than 40% of the population) |
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Raw scores changed to a 9 point scale
45 percentile= 5 |
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Graphophonic (does it look right)
reading feather for father (context clues)
Semantic (does it sense)
reading dad for father not using graphophonic cues(needs phonic skills)
Syntactic (does it sound right)
into for through or red for blue. (needs more phonics) |
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