ESOL GACE EVALUATION TEST ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔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
✔✔Old English - ✔✔the Anglo-Saxon language spoken from approximately 450 to 1150
AD in what is now Great Britain
✔✔Middle English - ✔✔Transitional period between the Anglo-Saxon and modern
English, 1066-1500; Chaucer is a good example of this period's work
✔✔Modern English - ✔✔the English language spoken and written since about 1500
✔✔American English - ✔✔A distinct form and tradition of English, separate from the
English tradition. It has its own standard form and its own lexical, orthographic and
grammatical conventions. Since the fall of the British Empire it has been the dominant
global form of English.
✔✔Sociolinguistics - ✔✔study of relationships between social and linguistic variation;
study of language in its social context
✔✔Society - ✔✔an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic
organization
✔✔customs - ✔✔a common practice among members of a family or society
✔✔Pitch - ✔✔the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency f vibration
✔✔stress - ✔✔the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note
✔✔phonographemic - ✔✔differences between words of English are a common source
of confusion and thus need to be taught explicitly with plenty of learning activities to
enable learners to acquire them sufficiently
✔✔homonyms - ✔✔words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings
✔✔homographs - ✔✔two or more words that have the same spelling or pronunciation
but different meanings; ie: stalk (celery) or stalk (follow)
✔✔homophones - ✔✔words that sound the same but have different meanings and
spellings
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔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
✔✔Old English - ✔✔the Anglo-Saxon language spoken from approximately 450 to 1150
AD in what is now Great Britain
✔✔Middle English - ✔✔Transitional period between the Anglo-Saxon and modern
English, 1066-1500; Chaucer is a good example of this period's work
✔✔Modern English - ✔✔the English language spoken and written since about 1500
✔✔American English - ✔✔A distinct form and tradition of English, separate from the
English tradition. It has its own standard form and its own lexical, orthographic and
grammatical conventions. Since the fall of the British Empire it has been the dominant
global form of English.
✔✔Sociolinguistics - ✔✔study of relationships between social and linguistic variation;
study of language in its social context
✔✔Society - ✔✔an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic
organization
✔✔customs - ✔✔a common practice among members of a family or society
✔✔Pitch - ✔✔the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency f vibration
✔✔stress - ✔✔the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note
✔✔phonographemic - ✔✔differences between words of English are a common source
of confusion and thus need to be taught explicitly with plenty of learning activities to
enable learners to acquire them sufficiently
✔✔homonyms - ✔✔words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings
✔✔homographs - ✔✔two or more words that have the same spelling or pronunciation
but different meanings; ie: stalk (celery) or stalk (follow)
✔✔homophones - ✔✔words that sound the same but have different meanings and
spellings
