TSI ASSESSMENT PRACTICE 3 HIGH-YIELD
ALGEBRA, ESSAY WRITING, AND READING
COMPREHENSION SUMMARY 2026
◉ Affect, Impact, or Adverse Impacts Statements
Read the following statement and identify each of the parts. (Match
Below)
Jane's progress in the fifth-grade ELA general education curriculum
is affected by the concerns because she is working two years below
grade level. She does not have the prerequisite skills to comprehend
the new fifth-grade skills presented. She is not able to apply the
skills in guided practice, and she is falling further behind.
1. What is the general education curriculum level or expectation in
Jane's current placement?
2. What specific skill deficits does she display? To what degree?
3. What is the Affect?
Answer: 1. Jane's progress in the fifth-grade general education
curriculum is affected by the concerns because she is working two
years below grade level.
2. She does not have prerequisite skills to learn to new fifth-grade
skills presented. She is not able to apply the skills in guided practice.
3. She is falling further behind.
,◉ What is the definition of an individualized education program?
Answer: A written document that focuses on academics and
functional performance.
◉ Which of the following adaptations are not expected to influence
student performance in a way that alters the interpretation of either
criterion- or norm-referenced test scores?
Answer: Read directions aloud.
◉ What is achievement testing?
Answer: Achievement testing assess what students know and should
be able to do in content areas.
◉ Contradictions should be eliminated as a data point because they
skew the trend line.
Answer: False
◉ Which approach to setting instructional goals relies on
benchmarking?
Answer: Comparison approaches
◉ What can progress monitoring be used to do?
Select two.
,Answer: Help develop appropriate and specific annual
Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals.
Make decisions about instructional changes for individuals who are
not progressing toward specified goals.
◉ All progress monitoring is required to be systematic and objective.
Answer: False
◉ Organize these typical stages of prereferral activities into the
order they would normally occur.
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Stage 5
Answer: Stage 1-Make a formal request for services
Stage 2 Clarify the problem
Stage 3 Design intervention
Stage 4 Implement the interventions
Stage 5 Evaluate the interventions' effects
, ◉ Through the special education assessment process, Choose...
recommendations are made regarding educational needs,
placement, and services.
Answer: Recommendations
◉ Intelligence tests base their scores on___________.
Answer: interval scale
◉ Which of the following progress monitoring tools involves a
standardized set of procedures that allow one to directly measure
important skills in a relatively short amount of time?
Answer: curriculum-based measurement
◉ Age and grade equivalents are useful scores because they are easy
to understand and use.
Answer: False
◉ Assessment is the systematic gathering of educationally relevant
data in order to make determinations about schooling for students.
Answer: Assessment
◉ Which are two approaches that can be used to infer that a student
has a disorder in a basic psychological process?
Answer: Response to intervention
ALGEBRA, ESSAY WRITING, AND READING
COMPREHENSION SUMMARY 2026
◉ Affect, Impact, or Adverse Impacts Statements
Read the following statement and identify each of the parts. (Match
Below)
Jane's progress in the fifth-grade ELA general education curriculum
is affected by the concerns because she is working two years below
grade level. She does not have the prerequisite skills to comprehend
the new fifth-grade skills presented. She is not able to apply the
skills in guided practice, and she is falling further behind.
1. What is the general education curriculum level or expectation in
Jane's current placement?
2. What specific skill deficits does she display? To what degree?
3. What is the Affect?
Answer: 1. Jane's progress in the fifth-grade general education
curriculum is affected by the concerns because she is working two
years below grade level.
2. She does not have prerequisite skills to learn to new fifth-grade
skills presented. She is not able to apply the skills in guided practice.
3. She is falling further behind.
,◉ What is the definition of an individualized education program?
Answer: A written document that focuses on academics and
functional performance.
◉ Which of the following adaptations are not expected to influence
student performance in a way that alters the interpretation of either
criterion- or norm-referenced test scores?
Answer: Read directions aloud.
◉ What is achievement testing?
Answer: Achievement testing assess what students know and should
be able to do in content areas.
◉ Contradictions should be eliminated as a data point because they
skew the trend line.
Answer: False
◉ Which approach to setting instructional goals relies on
benchmarking?
Answer: Comparison approaches
◉ What can progress monitoring be used to do?
Select two.
,Answer: Help develop appropriate and specific annual
Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals.
Make decisions about instructional changes for individuals who are
not progressing toward specified goals.
◉ All progress monitoring is required to be systematic and objective.
Answer: False
◉ Organize these typical stages of prereferral activities into the
order they would normally occur.
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Stage 5
Answer: Stage 1-Make a formal request for services
Stage 2 Clarify the problem
Stage 3 Design intervention
Stage 4 Implement the interventions
Stage 5 Evaluate the interventions' effects
, ◉ Through the special education assessment process, Choose...
recommendations are made regarding educational needs,
placement, and services.
Answer: Recommendations
◉ Intelligence tests base their scores on___________.
Answer: interval scale
◉ Which of the following progress monitoring tools involves a
standardized set of procedures that allow one to directly measure
important skills in a relatively short amount of time?
Answer: curriculum-based measurement
◉ Age and grade equivalents are useful scores because they are easy
to understand and use.
Answer: False
◉ Assessment is the systematic gathering of educationally relevant
data in order to make determinations about schooling for students.
Answer: Assessment
◉ Which are two approaches that can be used to infer that a student
has a disorder in a basic psychological process?
Answer: Response to intervention
