LETRS: Unit 1 Assessment question/answer
graded A+ 2024/2025
Many screening measures can be considered diagnostic since they provide extremely
detailed data about a students skills in particular literacy domains. - ✔️✔️False
If a student needs work on phonics and decoding, what kind of informal diagnostic
assessment would provide the most useful information on how to help this student with
these skills? - ✔️✔️A word-reading survey to show which sound-symbol correspondences
the student knows and which ones still need practice.
Which of the following is not an area of inquiry to include in a comprehensive diagnostic
assessment of a potential reading disorder? - ✔️✔️social interactions
Which of the following is an area of inquiry to include in a comprehensive diagnostic
assessment of a potential reading disorder? - ✔️✔️spelling, handwriting, and single-word
decoding
Which of these literacy skills have students typically mastered by the end of third grade?
- ✔️✔️advanced phonemic awareness, inflectional morphology, fluent recognition of word
families (rime patterns)
Cody is in first grade. He almost never raises his hand to participate in class
discussions. When called on, he replies very briefly. He tends to use vague words like
stuff and rarely uses full sentences. During decoding exercises, he reads words
accurately and easily recognizes common patterns; he is a good speller. When he
reads stories aloud, he reads fairly accurately but in an expressionless monotone.
Which assessment would be most likely to yield valuable information about Cody? -
✔️✔️reading a story to him and having him orally retell it
In what grade(s) is basic phonological awareness mainly practiced? - ✔️✔️K-1
In what grade(s) is phoneme-grapheme correspondences mainly practiced? - ✔️✔️K-2
In what grade(s) do most students have 300-500 sight words? - ✔️✔️1-2
In what grade(s) is inflectional morphology mainly practiced? - ✔️✔️1-3
In what grade(s) is advanced phonemic awareness mainly practiced? - ✔️✔️2-3
In what grade(s) is common syllables and syllabification mainly practiced? - ✔️✔️2-4
, In what grade(s) is morphology derived from Anglo-Saxon and Latin mainly practiced? -
✔️✔️3-6
In what grade(s) is Greek-derived morphemes mainly practiced? - ✔️✔️5-7+
Large-scale studies have shown that about half of first-graders who struggle with
reading will catch up by third grade without any special interventions. - ✔️✔️False
What is the primary purpose of progress-monitoring assessments? - ✔️✔️They help
teachers determine if a particular instructional approach is working to bring a student
closer to a target level of reading skill.
Which characteristics describe typical outcome assessments? - ✔️✔️designed to
measure passage comprehension, useful for comparing individuals to norms for a given
age or grade level
Which is a common limitation of screening measures? - ✔️✔️Their conservative
benchmarks result in false positives-children identified as poor readers even though
they will later develop adequate reading skills.
For an assessment to be useful in a school setting, which three psychometric criteria
are the most important? - ✔️✔️reliable, valid, efficient
Efficiency - ✔️✔️characteristic of assessments that can be given quickly at fairly low cost
while yielding valuable information
Validity - ✔️✔️Characteristic of assessments that measure what is intended, correspond
well to other known measures, and predict fairly accurately how students will perform on
accountability measures
Reliability - ✔️✔️Characteristic of assessments that are likely to yield the same result if
given several times on the same day in the same context
Normed - ✔️✔️Characteristic of assessments that tell where a student stands in relation
to others at his or her grade or age level.
Diagnostic - ✔️✔️A test given by a speech-language pathologist to determine whether a
student meets criteria for a specific disorder.
Monitoring - ✔️✔️A test given every two weeks to determine whether a new reading
program is helping at-risk students learn decoding skills
Outcome - ✔️✔️A high-stakes state reading comprehension test administered to all
students at the end of third grade
graded A+ 2024/2025
Many screening measures can be considered diagnostic since they provide extremely
detailed data about a students skills in particular literacy domains. - ✔️✔️False
If a student needs work on phonics and decoding, what kind of informal diagnostic
assessment would provide the most useful information on how to help this student with
these skills? - ✔️✔️A word-reading survey to show which sound-symbol correspondences
the student knows and which ones still need practice.
Which of the following is not an area of inquiry to include in a comprehensive diagnostic
assessment of a potential reading disorder? - ✔️✔️social interactions
Which of the following is an area of inquiry to include in a comprehensive diagnostic
assessment of a potential reading disorder? - ✔️✔️spelling, handwriting, and single-word
decoding
Which of these literacy skills have students typically mastered by the end of third grade?
- ✔️✔️advanced phonemic awareness, inflectional morphology, fluent recognition of word
families (rime patterns)
Cody is in first grade. He almost never raises his hand to participate in class
discussions. When called on, he replies very briefly. He tends to use vague words like
stuff and rarely uses full sentences. During decoding exercises, he reads words
accurately and easily recognizes common patterns; he is a good speller. When he
reads stories aloud, he reads fairly accurately but in an expressionless monotone.
Which assessment would be most likely to yield valuable information about Cody? -
✔️✔️reading a story to him and having him orally retell it
In what grade(s) is basic phonological awareness mainly practiced? - ✔️✔️K-1
In what grade(s) is phoneme-grapheme correspondences mainly practiced? - ✔️✔️K-2
In what grade(s) do most students have 300-500 sight words? - ✔️✔️1-2
In what grade(s) is inflectional morphology mainly practiced? - ✔️✔️1-3
In what grade(s) is advanced phonemic awareness mainly practiced? - ✔️✔️2-3
In what grade(s) is common syllables and syllabification mainly practiced? - ✔️✔️2-4
, In what grade(s) is morphology derived from Anglo-Saxon and Latin mainly practiced? -
✔️✔️3-6
In what grade(s) is Greek-derived morphemes mainly practiced? - ✔️✔️5-7+
Large-scale studies have shown that about half of first-graders who struggle with
reading will catch up by third grade without any special interventions. - ✔️✔️False
What is the primary purpose of progress-monitoring assessments? - ✔️✔️They help
teachers determine if a particular instructional approach is working to bring a student
closer to a target level of reading skill.
Which characteristics describe typical outcome assessments? - ✔️✔️designed to
measure passage comprehension, useful for comparing individuals to norms for a given
age or grade level
Which is a common limitation of screening measures? - ✔️✔️Their conservative
benchmarks result in false positives-children identified as poor readers even though
they will later develop adequate reading skills.
For an assessment to be useful in a school setting, which three psychometric criteria
are the most important? - ✔️✔️reliable, valid, efficient
Efficiency - ✔️✔️characteristic of assessments that can be given quickly at fairly low cost
while yielding valuable information
Validity - ✔️✔️Characteristic of assessments that measure what is intended, correspond
well to other known measures, and predict fairly accurately how students will perform on
accountability measures
Reliability - ✔️✔️Characteristic of assessments that are likely to yield the same result if
given several times on the same day in the same context
Normed - ✔️✔️Characteristic of assessments that tell where a student stands in relation
to others at his or her grade or age level.
Diagnostic - ✔️✔️A test given by a speech-language pathologist to determine whether a
student meets criteria for a specific disorder.
Monitoring - ✔️✔️A test given every two weeks to determine whether a new reading
program is helping at-risk students learn decoding skills
Outcome - ✔️✔️A high-stakes state reading comprehension test administered to all
students at the end of third grade
