LETRS Unit 1 Session 7 with complete solutions

Some very smart people have dyslexia. True Dyslexia may be inherited. True 00:39 01:29 Children who can't read by age 9 never will. False Around 10-15 percent of the population have dyslexia. True Dyslexia is seeing things backward. False You can't identify dyslexic children before they enter school. False School improvement requires long-term commitment. True A research-based curriculum alone can turn schools around. False Dyslexia affects far more boys than girls. False All but 2-5 percent of children can learn to read. True A test given every two weeks to determine whether a new reading program in helping at-risk students learn decoding skills Monitoring A test of foundational skills given three times during first grade to identify at-risk students Screening A high-stakes state reading comprehension test administered to all students at the end of third grade Outcome A test given by a speech-language pathologist to determine whether a student meets criteria for a specific disorder Diagnostic Characteristic of assessments that can be given quickly at fairly low cost while yielding valuable information Efficiency 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 Validity Characteristic of assessments that are likely to yield the same result if given several times on the same day in the same context Reliability Characteristic of assessments that tell where a student stands in relation to others of the same age or grade level Normed 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. False What is the primary purpose of progress-monitoring assessments? 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? Select all that apply. 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? The imprecision of the measures results in false positives—children identified as lacking sufficient reading skills even though they will later develop adequate reading skills.