ICLA 340 TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Idaho Reading Indicator (IRI): ANSWER A test offered to Idaho K-3 pupils to
assess reading competence in essential domains. Benchmarks are used to
determine scores (Tier 1-3).
Idaho Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) - ANSWER Idaho's computerised
standardised achievement tests, offered state-wide to pupils in third grade and
upwards in language arts, math and science.
Informal Assessment: ANSWER Assessment allows for instructor freedom,
adjustment, and interpretation.
Used to verify comprehension and steer instruction.
Often compared with formal assessment
Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) - Answer The use of a graded series of
increasing difficulty passages to identify students' abilities, needs, and
techniques in word identification and comprehension, as well as to gauge
frustration, instructional and autonomous reading levels
norm-referenced assessment - ANSWER A test that compares a student's talents
to classmates in the same grade level, determining if a student has acquired the
skills required to function well at his or her grade level. Example: An
assessment is conducted to establish the need for academic support.
Self-assessment: ANSWER Another name for self-assessment.
standardised assessment - ANSWER demands all students to answer the same
questions in the same way, and is administered and assessed in the same
manner.
ANSWERS
Idaho Reading Indicator (IRI): ANSWER A test offered to Idaho K-3 pupils to
assess reading competence in essential domains. Benchmarks are used to
determine scores (Tier 1-3).
Idaho Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) - ANSWER Idaho's computerised
standardised achievement tests, offered state-wide to pupils in third grade and
upwards in language arts, math and science.
Informal Assessment: ANSWER Assessment allows for instructor freedom,
adjustment, and interpretation.
Used to verify comprehension and steer instruction.
Often compared with formal assessment
Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) - Answer The use of a graded series of
increasing difficulty passages to identify students' abilities, needs, and
techniques in word identification and comprehension, as well as to gauge
frustration, instructional and autonomous reading levels
norm-referenced assessment - ANSWER A test that compares a student's talents
to classmates in the same grade level, determining if a student has acquired the
skills required to function well at his or her grade level. Example: An
assessment is conducted to establish the need for academic support.
Self-assessment: ANSWER Another name for self-assessment.
standardised assessment - ANSWER demands all students to answer the same
questions in the same way, and is administered and assessed in the same
manner.
