Standards - -Set of goals for each
discipline. Word Lists for IRI - -Given first to
determine where reading passages should
begin.
Assessment - -Provides data
necessary for effective instruction.
Miscues - -Errors student makes while
reading.
Authentic Assessment - -reflect actual
learning and instructional activities.
Self-Correct Errors - -Child corrects
mispronounced word- does not count as an
Summative Assessment - - error.
Summarizes student progress at the end of a
unit or semester.
Quantitative Errors - -Errors that
change the text and affect comprehension.
Formative Assessment - -Ongoing and Errors that are countable - everyone can
used to inform instruction during learning. agree that it is an error (objective).
Informal Reading Inventory - -(IRI)- Qualitative Errors - -Errors that change
used to determine students' reading levels. how a student reads, but may not affect
Consists of word lists, reading passages, and comprehension. These do not count as
comprehension questions. Can also include errors. These are subjective errors.
silent reading passages in some instances.
Fluency - -Reading rate usually
Independent Reading Level - -free- recorded as words per minute.
reading level, students can read on their own
without teacher assistance. 96-100%
accuracy Miscue Analysis - -Process of analyzing
miscues in order to determine which cueing
systems or combination of cueing systems
Instructional Reading Level - -Students the student is using.
need assistance, should be level of materials
used for instruction. 90-95% accuracy
Cueing Systems - -Syntactic (how
language sounds), semantic (meaning of the
Frustration Reading Level - -Text is too sentence or passage), phonic (graphophonic)
difficult. Less than 90% accuracy (phonics).
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Syntactic - -Grammatical makeup of STAR - -(Advantage Learning Systems)-
language. administered and scored by computer- uses
a modified cloze procedure. Adaptive testing -
changes with the student.
Semantic - -Meaning of the sentence
or passage.
Word List Tests - -only assesses ability
to pronounce words-
Phonic/Visual - -Phonics.
Screening Measures - -Designed to
Running Record - -Students read aloud indicate possible difficulties or problems.
to determine whether reading materials are
appropriate and to obtain information about
the word-recognition processes students are Benchmark - -An expected level of
using. Can be 100 words or a 2 minute performance on a task.
reading.
Curriculum Based Measures - -(CBM)-
Developmental Reading Assessment - General outcome assessments- measure
-(DRA)- Commerical Running Record- overall indicators of proficiency rather than
assesses fluency and decoding skills. mastery of specific skills. Standardized tests.
Qualitative Reading Inventory 5 - -(QRI- Oral Reading Fluency - -CBM- measure
5)- Commercial IRI which includes lengthy how many words a student can accurately
content area passages and think alouds. read in a minute.
Degrees of Reading Power - -(DRP)- Maze Passages - -Measure basic
Assesses overall reading ability by having comprehension. Modified cloze procedure.
students choose from among five options the
one that best completes a portion of the
passage from which words have been Rubrics - -Written description of what
omitted. is expected from students in order for them to
meet a certain level of performance.
Scholastic Reading Inventory - -(SRI)-
uses modified cloze procedure (like the Adaptive Tests - -Tests taken on a
DRA)- yields lexile scores. computer which increase in difficulty as
student gets items correct.
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Retelling - -Process of summarizing or Interviews/Conferences - -Oral
describing a story that one has read to assess questions or written questions.
comprehension.
Holistic Scoring - -Scoring or ranking
Evaluating Retellings - -Record students' written pieces on the basis of an
retelling, take notes on events or ideas child overall impression of each piece.
states.
Analytic Scoring - -Analyzing pieces
Structured Written Retellings - -Asking and noting specific strengths and
students to answer a series of broad weaknesses.
questions.
Portfolios - -Collection of work
Think-Aloud - -used to show thought samples, test results, checklists, and other
processes students use as they attempt to data used to assess a student's performance.
construct meaning.
Determining Level of Language - -Level
Informal Think-Aloud - -Can be at which student understands English.
incorporated into individual or group
conferences.
Assessing Language - -Have student
point to various objects.
Observation - -Watching how students
learn- kid watching.
Literacy Profiles - -For ELL students,
provides information about the language the
Anecdotal Records - -field notes - students speak at home.
recordings of what the child said or did.
ATOS - -(Advantage-TASA Open
Checklists - -Can be a present-absent Standard)- computerized formula that
scale or show degrees of involvement. determines reading level of a book.
Questionnaires - -Provide information Lexiles - -Computerized formula which
about reading interests, study habits, measures sentence length and word
strategy use, etc. frequency to determine reading level of a text.