ESOL GACE ACTUAL FINALS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Norm-Referenced Tests - ✔✔Results based on group performance (the norm); may
be compared using mean and standard derivations or on actual group
✔✔Criterion-referenced Tests - ✔✔Test score is based on mastery of course content
✔✔Language Placement Tests - ✔✔Designed to place a student in a specific program
✔✔Language Proficiency Test - ✔✔Measures how well students meet a standard in a
language
✔✔Language Achievement Tests - ✔✔Related to curriculum or course of study
✔✔Diagnostic Language Tests - ✔✔Designed to identify strengths and weaknesses
✔✔PHLOTE - ✔✔Primary Home Language Other Than English
✔✔WIDA - ✔✔World Class Instructional Design and Assessment
✔✔Validity - ✔✔If a test measures what it asserts to measure
✔✔Empirical Validity - ✔✔Measure of how a test relates to some other known measure
✔✔Predictive Empirical Validity - ✔✔How a test relates to possible outcomes
✔✔Concurrent Empirical Validity - ✔✔How a test relates to another variable
✔✔Reliability - ✔✔Similar scores result when taken again
, ✔✔ACCESS - ✔✔Assessing Comprehension and Communication in English State to
State (Proficiency Test)
✔✔GAA - ✔✔Georgia Alternative Assessment (for cognitive disabilities under the IDEA)
✔✔3 Tests in Georgia - ✔✔ACCESS, GAA, Language proficiency
✔✔Language Experience Approach - ✔✔Encourages spoken response to experience
✔✔Schemata - ✔✔Need to be activated to draw on previous experience
✔✔ Sociolinguistics - ✔✔The study of how social conditions influence the use of
language
✔✔Code Switching - ✔✔Interspersing one language with another
✔✔Dialect - ✔✔Complete system of verbal communication (oral or signed, not written)
with its own pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar; often associated with regions or
social groups
✔✔Pragmatics - ✔✔The study of how the context impacts the interpretation of language
✔✔Phonology - ✔✔The way in which speech sounds form patterns
✔✔Phonemes - ✔✔The smallest unit of sound that affects meaning
✔✔Phonographemics - ✔✔Study of letters and letter combinations
✔✔Homonyms - ✔✔General term for word forms that have two or more meanings
✔✔Homophones - ✔✔Two words with the same pronunciation, but different meaning
and spelling (wood/would, cite/sight)
✔✔Homographs - ✔✔Two words with the same spelling or pronunciation, but different
meanings (stalk-to follow, stalk-part of a plant)
✔✔Heteronyms - ✔✔Two words that have the same spelling, but different pronunciation
and meanings (Polish, polish)
✔✔Morphology - ✔✔How te words of a language are formed to create meaningful
messages
✔✔Morpheme - ✔✔Smallest unit of a language system that has meaning
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Norm-Referenced Tests - ✔✔Results based on group performance (the norm); may
be compared using mean and standard derivations or on actual group
✔✔Criterion-referenced Tests - ✔✔Test score is based on mastery of course content
✔✔Language Placement Tests - ✔✔Designed to place a student in a specific program
✔✔Language Proficiency Test - ✔✔Measures how well students meet a standard in a
language
✔✔Language Achievement Tests - ✔✔Related to curriculum or course of study
✔✔Diagnostic Language Tests - ✔✔Designed to identify strengths and weaknesses
✔✔PHLOTE - ✔✔Primary Home Language Other Than English
✔✔WIDA - ✔✔World Class Instructional Design and Assessment
✔✔Validity - ✔✔If a test measures what it asserts to measure
✔✔Empirical Validity - ✔✔Measure of how a test relates to some other known measure
✔✔Predictive Empirical Validity - ✔✔How a test relates to possible outcomes
✔✔Concurrent Empirical Validity - ✔✔How a test relates to another variable
✔✔Reliability - ✔✔Similar scores result when taken again
, ✔✔ACCESS - ✔✔Assessing Comprehension and Communication in English State to
State (Proficiency Test)
✔✔GAA - ✔✔Georgia Alternative Assessment (for cognitive disabilities under the IDEA)
✔✔3 Tests in Georgia - ✔✔ACCESS, GAA, Language proficiency
✔✔Language Experience Approach - ✔✔Encourages spoken response to experience
✔✔Schemata - ✔✔Need to be activated to draw on previous experience
✔✔ Sociolinguistics - ✔✔The study of how social conditions influence the use of
language
✔✔Code Switching - ✔✔Interspersing one language with another
✔✔Dialect - ✔✔Complete system of verbal communication (oral or signed, not written)
with its own pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar; often associated with regions or
social groups
✔✔Pragmatics - ✔✔The study of how the context impacts the interpretation of language
✔✔Phonology - ✔✔The way in which speech sounds form patterns
✔✔Phonemes - ✔✔The smallest unit of sound that affects meaning
✔✔Phonographemics - ✔✔Study of letters and letter combinations
✔✔Homonyms - ✔✔General term for word forms that have two or more meanings
✔✔Homophones - ✔✔Two words with the same pronunciation, but different meaning
and spelling (wood/would, cite/sight)
✔✔Homographs - ✔✔Two words with the same spelling or pronunciation, but different
meanings (stalk-to follow, stalk-part of a plant)
✔✔Heteronyms - ✔✔Two words that have the same spelling, but different pronunciation
and meanings (Polish, polish)
✔✔Morphology - ✔✔How te words of a language are formed to create meaningful
messages
✔✔Morpheme - ✔✔Smallest unit of a language system that has meaning
