ICLA standard 3 Questions and All
Correct Answers 2026 Updated.
accountability - Answer the idea that schools or teachers are responsible for education
outcomes and should be evaluated
anecdotal record - Answer a description of behavior; a reporting of observed behavioral
incidents
assessment - Answer the act or process of gathering data in order to better understand the
strengths and needs of student learning
authentic assessment - Answer a type of assessment that seeks to address widespread
concerns that seeks to address widespread concerns about standardized, nor-referenced testing
by representing "literacy behavior of the community and worksplace"; actual learning
central tendency - Answer a single central value used to summarized a distribution of scores;
mean
cloze - Answer an instrument to measure a person's ability to restore omitted portions of an
oral or written message by reading its remaining context; to develop listening or reading
comprehension, used as an instructional strategy when teaching students how to use context
clues, blanks replace deleted words
concepts about print - Answer marie clay's indicator that tests book handling concepts which
include front/back, top/bottom, etc.
criterion-referenced measurement - Answer the assessment of performance on a test in
terms of the kind of behavior expected of a person with a given score, "mastery", judged as an
individual
curriculum-based assessment - Answer the appraisal of student progress by using materials
and procedures directly from the curriculum taught
echo reading - Answer the teacher reads the text and the student echos and reads with the
same speed and expression
frustration level - Answer a readability of material that is too difficult to be read successfully
by a student, <90% accuracy in word identification, <50% comprehension
, Idaho Reading Indicator (IRI) - Answer an Idaho test administered to k-3 grade students that
includes word recognition, phonic analysis and recoding measurements, students score as 1,2,
or 3
Independent level - Answer the readability of material that is easy for a student to read,
>99% accuracy in word identification, >90% comprehension
Informal reading inventory (IRI) - Answer the use of a graded series of passages of increasing
difficulty to determine students' strength, needs, and strategies in word identification and
comprehension, any casual but sensitive observation of reading behaviors
Instructional level - Answer the readability of material that is challenging, but not frustrating
for the student to read successfully with normal classroom support, >95% accuracy in word
identification & >75% comprehension
miscue analysis - Answer a formal examination of the use of miscues as the basis for
determining the strengths and needs in the background experiences and language skills of
students as they read, analysis includes whether or not the miscue is semantically acceptable,
graphically or aurally similar
norm-referenced measurement - Answer the assessment of performance in relation to that
of the large group used in the standardization of a test or in relation to locally developed norms
performance based assessment - Answer the measurement of education achievement by
tasks that call for the student to demonstrate understanding by applying knowledge to a
meaningful task, produce a response like that required in the instructional environment,
portfolios, project
phonemic awareness assessment - Answer measurement of student ability to hear the
phonemes in a word, how many sounds in the word "hat"
portfolio-based assessment - Answer assessment based on a representative sampling of
student work that demonstrates growth over time
reliability - Answer consistency in measurements and tests, the extent to which two
applications of the same measurement rank persons in the same way
repeated reading - Answer a procedure to increase rate of reading, increase WPM
Correct Answers 2026 Updated.
accountability - Answer the idea that schools or teachers are responsible for education
outcomes and should be evaluated
anecdotal record - Answer a description of behavior; a reporting of observed behavioral
incidents
assessment - Answer the act or process of gathering data in order to better understand the
strengths and needs of student learning
authentic assessment - Answer a type of assessment that seeks to address widespread
concerns that seeks to address widespread concerns about standardized, nor-referenced testing
by representing "literacy behavior of the community and worksplace"; actual learning
central tendency - Answer a single central value used to summarized a distribution of scores;
mean
cloze - Answer an instrument to measure a person's ability to restore omitted portions of an
oral or written message by reading its remaining context; to develop listening or reading
comprehension, used as an instructional strategy when teaching students how to use context
clues, blanks replace deleted words
concepts about print - Answer marie clay's indicator that tests book handling concepts which
include front/back, top/bottom, etc.
criterion-referenced measurement - Answer the assessment of performance on a test in
terms of the kind of behavior expected of a person with a given score, "mastery", judged as an
individual
curriculum-based assessment - Answer the appraisal of student progress by using materials
and procedures directly from the curriculum taught
echo reading - Answer the teacher reads the text and the student echos and reads with the
same speed and expression
frustration level - Answer a readability of material that is too difficult to be read successfully
by a student, <90% accuracy in word identification, <50% comprehension
, Idaho Reading Indicator (IRI) - Answer an Idaho test administered to k-3 grade students that
includes word recognition, phonic analysis and recoding measurements, students score as 1,2,
or 3
Independent level - Answer the readability of material that is easy for a student to read,
>99% accuracy in word identification, >90% comprehension
Informal reading inventory (IRI) - Answer the use of a graded series of passages of increasing
difficulty to determine students' strength, needs, and strategies in word identification and
comprehension, any casual but sensitive observation of reading behaviors
Instructional level - Answer the readability of material that is challenging, but not frustrating
for the student to read successfully with normal classroom support, >95% accuracy in word
identification & >75% comprehension
miscue analysis - Answer a formal examination of the use of miscues as the basis for
determining the strengths and needs in the background experiences and language skills of
students as they read, analysis includes whether or not the miscue is semantically acceptable,
graphically or aurally similar
norm-referenced measurement - Answer the assessment of performance in relation to that
of the large group used in the standardization of a test or in relation to locally developed norms
performance based assessment - Answer the measurement of education achievement by
tasks that call for the student to demonstrate understanding by applying knowledge to a
meaningful task, produce a response like that required in the instructional environment,
portfolios, project
phonemic awareness assessment - Answer measurement of student ability to hear the
phonemes in a word, how many sounds in the word "hat"
portfolio-based assessment - Answer assessment based on a representative sampling of
student work that demonstrates growth over time
reliability - Answer consistency in measurements and tests, the extent to which two
applications of the same measurement rank persons in the same way
repeated reading - Answer a procedure to increase rate of reading, increase WPM
