CALP EVALUATION EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS TAGGED A+
✔✔Grace Fernald - ✔✔Kinesthetic method influenced Orton; he suggested kinesthetic-
tactile reinforcement of visual and auditory associations could reverse transposition of
letters
✔✔3 layers of language - ✔✔Anglo-Saxon; Latin; Greek
✔✔Anglo-Saxon Layer - ✔✔stresses everyday life; common words; usually 1 syllable
✔✔Latin Layer - ✔✔used in more formal settings; often found in lit, science in upper
elem texts etc; longer than A-S
✔✔Greek Layer - ✔✔scientific; roots often combine forms and compounds
✔✔bound morpheme - ✔✔must be attached to other morphemes ( -ed, pre-)
✔✔chameleon prefix - ✔✔prefix whose final consonant depends on the initial letter of a
root (in- changes to -ir) Clue: when you see double consonants at beginning of word
✔✔cloze procedure - ✔✔"fill in the blank" reading
✔✔curriculum-referenced test - ✔✔Items taken from curriculum - not tested on material
not taught. Good match between assessment and instruction. Can be informal or
formal.
✔✔diagnostic evaluation - ✔✔Used to identify the nature and source of an individual's
educational, psychological, or medical difficulties/disabilities in order to facilitate
remediation
✔✔discovery method - ✔✔Socratic method; presentation of new material can be
deduced by students
✔✔dysarthria - ✔✔nervous system disorder which hinders control over tongue, throat
etc ( slurred speech)
✔✔grade equivalent - ✔✔not dependable representation;describes performance of an
average student at grade level
✔✔profile - ✔✔a graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of
assessments
✔✔raw score - ✔✔scores expressed in original form - no statistical treatment
, ✔✔standard score - ✔✔a way of describing in STANDARD deviation units a RAW
score's distance from its distribution means
✔✔standard deviation - ✔✔statistical measure of the degree of dispersion of score
measures - more wide the distribution, the greater the standard deviation
✔✔affix - ✔✔a letter/group of letters attached to the beginning or end of a base word
that creates a derivative different than the original base or root
✔✔alexia - ✔✔loss of ability to read, usually because of brain injury
✔✔alphabetic principle - ✔✔the understanding that letters represent speech sounds -
letters are meaningless
✔✔sound-symbol association - ✔✔knowledge of various sounds in English and their
correspondence to letter or letters that represent those sounds
✔✔Reid Lyon - ✔✔Nat'l reading Panel; Components of Reading Instruction
✔✔Components of Reading Instruction - ✔✔Phonology, phonics, fluency, vocab,
comprehension
✔✔Dr. Samuel Orton - ✔✔Father of dyslexia; strephosymbolia; separated disabled
readers from other groups ( retardation, brain damage, etc);influenced by Hinshelwood
and Alzheimer
✔✔Dr. Rudolf Berlin - ✔✔ophthalmologist; introduced the term 'dyslexia'
✔✔synthetic phonics - ✔✔teaches individual parts to form whole words; ...synthesize...
✔✔Anna Gillingham - ✔✔psychologist and teacher; Columbia; worked with Sally Childs
and trained teachers; developed a non-traditional approach to teaching reading
✔✔synthetic instruction - ✔✔presents the parts of the language and then teaches how
the parts work together to make a whole; part of MSLE
✔✔dyslexia instruction - ✔✔explicit, systematic, cumulative, structured and
multisensory
✔✔IDEA Amendments 1997 - ✔✔FAPE - free and appropriate public education
✔✔Interactive Components of Language - ✔✔Form ( phonology, morphology); Syntax
(orthography); Content ( semantics); Use (pragmatics)
ANSWERS TAGGED A+
✔✔Grace Fernald - ✔✔Kinesthetic method influenced Orton; he suggested kinesthetic-
tactile reinforcement of visual and auditory associations could reverse transposition of
letters
✔✔3 layers of language - ✔✔Anglo-Saxon; Latin; Greek
✔✔Anglo-Saxon Layer - ✔✔stresses everyday life; common words; usually 1 syllable
✔✔Latin Layer - ✔✔used in more formal settings; often found in lit, science in upper
elem texts etc; longer than A-S
✔✔Greek Layer - ✔✔scientific; roots often combine forms and compounds
✔✔bound morpheme - ✔✔must be attached to other morphemes ( -ed, pre-)
✔✔chameleon prefix - ✔✔prefix whose final consonant depends on the initial letter of a
root (in- changes to -ir) Clue: when you see double consonants at beginning of word
✔✔cloze procedure - ✔✔"fill in the blank" reading
✔✔curriculum-referenced test - ✔✔Items taken from curriculum - not tested on material
not taught. Good match between assessment and instruction. Can be informal or
formal.
✔✔diagnostic evaluation - ✔✔Used to identify the nature and source of an individual's
educational, psychological, or medical difficulties/disabilities in order to facilitate
remediation
✔✔discovery method - ✔✔Socratic method; presentation of new material can be
deduced by students
✔✔dysarthria - ✔✔nervous system disorder which hinders control over tongue, throat
etc ( slurred speech)
✔✔grade equivalent - ✔✔not dependable representation;describes performance of an
average student at grade level
✔✔profile - ✔✔a graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of
assessments
✔✔raw score - ✔✔scores expressed in original form - no statistical treatment
, ✔✔standard score - ✔✔a way of describing in STANDARD deviation units a RAW
score's distance from its distribution means
✔✔standard deviation - ✔✔statistical measure of the degree of dispersion of score
measures - more wide the distribution, the greater the standard deviation
✔✔affix - ✔✔a letter/group of letters attached to the beginning or end of a base word
that creates a derivative different than the original base or root
✔✔alexia - ✔✔loss of ability to read, usually because of brain injury
✔✔alphabetic principle - ✔✔the understanding that letters represent speech sounds -
letters are meaningless
✔✔sound-symbol association - ✔✔knowledge of various sounds in English and their
correspondence to letter or letters that represent those sounds
✔✔Reid Lyon - ✔✔Nat'l reading Panel; Components of Reading Instruction
✔✔Components of Reading Instruction - ✔✔Phonology, phonics, fluency, vocab,
comprehension
✔✔Dr. Samuel Orton - ✔✔Father of dyslexia; strephosymbolia; separated disabled
readers from other groups ( retardation, brain damage, etc);influenced by Hinshelwood
and Alzheimer
✔✔Dr. Rudolf Berlin - ✔✔ophthalmologist; introduced the term 'dyslexia'
✔✔synthetic phonics - ✔✔teaches individual parts to form whole words; ...synthesize...
✔✔Anna Gillingham - ✔✔psychologist and teacher; Columbia; worked with Sally Childs
and trained teachers; developed a non-traditional approach to teaching reading
✔✔synthetic instruction - ✔✔presents the parts of the language and then teaches how
the parts work together to make a whole; part of MSLE
✔✔dyslexia instruction - ✔✔explicit, systematic, cumulative, structured and
multisensory
✔✔IDEA Amendments 1997 - ✔✔FAPE - free and appropriate public education
✔✔Interactive Components of Language - ✔✔Form ( phonology, morphology); Syntax
(orthography); Content ( semantics); Use (pragmatics)
