ICLA STANDARD 1 UPDATED ACTUAL
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
●● Anecdotal Record
Answer: An informal 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 designed to evaluate students' literacy
skills in real-world situations, as opposed to their performance on
standardized tests.
●● Benchmark
Answer: The standard scoring range provided for assessments that
indicate student performance at or above grade level.
●● Causation
, Answer: The act or process of causing something to happen or exist;
direct cause and effect relationship.
●● Central Tendency
Answer: Refers to the 'middle' value or perhaps a typical value of the
data and is measured using mean, median and mode.
●● Cloze Procedure
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 of print
Answer: Assessment that measures book and text concepts, which
include front/back, title and author, directionality, text structure (letter,
word, sentence, punctuation), etc.
●● Correlation
Answer: The relationship or connection between two or more measures;
the strength of the relationship between two or more things.
●● Criterion-Referenced Assessment
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
●● Anecdotal Record
Answer: An informal 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 designed to evaluate students' literacy
skills in real-world situations, as opposed to their performance on
standardized tests.
●● Benchmark
Answer: The standard scoring range provided for assessments that
indicate student performance at or above grade level.
●● Causation
, Answer: The act or process of causing something to happen or exist;
direct cause and effect relationship.
●● Central Tendency
Answer: Refers to the 'middle' value or perhaps a typical value of the
data and is measured using mean, median and mode.
●● Cloze Procedure
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 of print
Answer: Assessment that measures book and text concepts, which
include front/back, title and author, directionality, text structure (letter,
word, sentence, punctuation), etc.
●● Correlation
Answer: The relationship or connection between two or more measures;
the strength of the relationship between two or more things.
●● Criterion-Referenced Assessment
