ICLA Standard III Questions and
Answers.
Accountability - Answer the idea that schools or teachers are responsible for educational
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
AIMSweb - Answer A form of curriculum-based measurement (CBM) for grades K-12
Used for universal screening and progress monitoring
Measures overall performance of key foundational skills at each grade level
Authentic Assessment - Answer A form of assessment in which students are asked to perform
real-world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of essential knowledge and skills
Central Tendency - Answer a single central value used to summarize a distribution of scores
(middle)
-Mean (sum divided by # in data set)
-Median (middle value dividing set in half)
-Mode (most frequent value in the data set)
Cloze Procedure - Answer an assessment in which words are deleted from a passage
according to a word-count formula that is used to measure a student's ability to use context
clues; match between student/text
Concepts About Print - Answer Basic understandings about the way print works, including the
direction of print, spacing, punctuation, letters, and words.
Criterion Referenced Measurement - Answer - the assessment/score on test performance
that is based on the type of behavior expected of a person w/a given score.
, - each criterion is established prior to the exam. Eg. a student may be shown 10 pictures for 2
minutes & then asked to recall as many as possible. The # of pictures recalled determines the
score with, for eg., 3 pictures recalled as the average.
- the measurement may be expressed in: including checklists, rating scales, grades, rubrics, &
%age of accuracy.
Curriculum Based Assessment (CBA) - Answer The appraisal of student progress by using
materials and procedures directly from the curriculum taught
The Four Language Cueing Systems - Answer graphophonic, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic
The Phonological System - Answer Governs how symbols are used to form sequences known
as words or morphemes.
(Sound-Symbol Relationship)
phoneme, grapheme, phonemic awareness, phonics
The Syntactic System - Answer the structural system of English that governs how words are
combined into sentences
(Sentence Structure and Grammar)
The Semantic System - Answer involves the meaning of words; you might depend in part on
semantic processing to know that when you read "cat" it means or refers to that warm, furry,
purring thing that jumps on your lap and meows.
(Meaning/Comprehension)
morpheme
The Pragmatic System - Answer The system of English that offers language choices according
to social and cultural uses
(Social and Cultural Use)
DIBELS - Answer The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of
procedures and measures for assessing the acquisition of early literacy skills from kindergarten
through sixth grade. They are designed to be short (one minute) fluency measures used to
regularly monitor the development of early literacy and early reading skills
Answers.
Accountability - Answer the idea that schools or teachers are responsible for educational
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
AIMSweb - Answer A form of curriculum-based measurement (CBM) for grades K-12
Used for universal screening and progress monitoring
Measures overall performance of key foundational skills at each grade level
Authentic Assessment - Answer A form of assessment in which students are asked to perform
real-world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of essential knowledge and skills
Central Tendency - Answer a single central value used to summarize a distribution of scores
(middle)
-Mean (sum divided by # in data set)
-Median (middle value dividing set in half)
-Mode (most frequent value in the data set)
Cloze Procedure - Answer an assessment in which words are deleted from a passage
according to a word-count formula that is used to measure a student's ability to use context
clues; match between student/text
Concepts About Print - Answer Basic understandings about the way print works, including the
direction of print, spacing, punctuation, letters, and words.
Criterion Referenced Measurement - Answer - the assessment/score on test performance
that is based on the type of behavior expected of a person w/a given score.
, - each criterion is established prior to the exam. Eg. a student may be shown 10 pictures for 2
minutes & then asked to recall as many as possible. The # of pictures recalled determines the
score with, for eg., 3 pictures recalled as the average.
- the measurement may be expressed in: including checklists, rating scales, grades, rubrics, &
%age of accuracy.
Curriculum Based Assessment (CBA) - Answer The appraisal of student progress by using
materials and procedures directly from the curriculum taught
The Four Language Cueing Systems - Answer graphophonic, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic
The Phonological System - Answer Governs how symbols are used to form sequences known
as words or morphemes.
(Sound-Symbol Relationship)
phoneme, grapheme, phonemic awareness, phonics
The Syntactic System - Answer the structural system of English that governs how words are
combined into sentences
(Sentence Structure and Grammar)
The Semantic System - Answer involves the meaning of words; you might depend in part on
semantic processing to know that when you read "cat" it means or refers to that warm, furry,
purring thing that jumps on your lap and meows.
(Meaning/Comprehension)
morpheme
The Pragmatic System - Answer The system of English that offers language choices according
to social and cultural uses
(Social and Cultural Use)
DIBELS - Answer The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of
procedures and measures for assessing the acquisition of early literacy skills from kindergarten
through sixth grade. They are designed to be short (one minute) fluency measures used to
regularly monitor the development of early literacy and early reading skills
