ICLA CERTIFICATION SCRIPT 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◍ accountability.
Answer: the idea that schools or teachers are responsible for education
outcomes and should be evaluated
◍ anecdotal record.
Answer: a 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 that seeks to address widespread concerns that
seeks to address widespread concerns about standardized, nor-referenced
testing by representing "literacy behavior of the community and
worksplace"; actual learning
◍ central tendency.
Answer: a single central value used to summarized a distribution of scores;
mean
◍ comprehension.
Answer: an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something
(or the knowledge acquired as a result)
◍ cloze.
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
◍ comprehension strategies.
Answer: specific techniques that promote reading comprehension such as
predicting and gaining word meanings from context
◍ context.
Answer: discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its
interpretation; the social or cultural situation situation in which a spoken or
written message occurs
◍ concepts about print.
Answer: marie clay's indicator that tests book handling concepts which
include front/back, top/bottom, etc.
◍ criterion-referenced measurement.
Answer: the assessment of performance on a test in terms of the kind of
behavior expected of a person with a given score, "mastery", judged as an
individual
◍ curriculum-based assessment.
Answer: the appraisal of student progress by using materials and procedures
directly from the curriculum taught
◍ schema.
Answer: an internal representation of the world; how the mind categorizes
incoming stimuli
◍ echo reading.
Answer: the teacher reads the text and the student echos and reads with the
same speed and expression
◍ schemata.
Answer: plural of schema; more than one cognitive structure stored in
, memory
◍ metacognition.
Answer: awareness and knowledge of one's mental processes such that one
can monitor, regulate, and direct them to a desired end; thinking about one's
thinking
◍ brainstorming.
Answer: coming up with as many solutions to a problem as possible in a
short period of time with no censoring of ideas
◍ readability.
Answer: the ease with which words, phrases or blocks of text can be read
◍ connotative meaning.
Answer: the meaning suggested by the associations or emotions triggered by
a word or phrase; affective meaning;emotive meaning
◍ denotative meaning.
Answer: the literal or dictionary meaning of a word or phrase; referential
meaning; cognitive meaning
◍ figurative language.
Answer: Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting
up comparisons between dissimilar things, [examples are metaphor, simile,
and personification.
◍ expository text.
Answer: text written to explain and convey information, informational
writing
◍ frustration level.
Answer: a readability of material that is too difficult to be read successfully
by a student, <90% accuracy in word identification, <50% comprehension
◍ Idaho Reading Indicator (IRI).
Answer: an Idaho test administered to k-3 grade students that includes word
recognition, phonic analysis and recoding measurements, students score as
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◍ accountability.
Answer: the idea that schools or teachers are responsible for education
outcomes and should be evaluated
◍ anecdotal record.
Answer: a 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 that seeks to address widespread concerns that
seeks to address widespread concerns about standardized, nor-referenced
testing by representing "literacy behavior of the community and
worksplace"; actual learning
◍ central tendency.
Answer: a single central value used to summarized a distribution of scores;
mean
◍ comprehension.
Answer: an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something
(or the knowledge acquired as a result)
◍ cloze.
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
◍ comprehension strategies.
Answer: specific techniques that promote reading comprehension such as
predicting and gaining word meanings from context
◍ context.
Answer: discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its
interpretation; the social or cultural situation situation in which a spoken or
written message occurs
◍ concepts about print.
Answer: marie clay's indicator that tests book handling concepts which
include front/back, top/bottom, etc.
◍ criterion-referenced measurement.
Answer: the assessment of performance on a test in terms of the kind of
behavior expected of a person with a given score, "mastery", judged as an
individual
◍ curriculum-based assessment.
Answer: the appraisal of student progress by using materials and procedures
directly from the curriculum taught
◍ schema.
Answer: an internal representation of the world; how the mind categorizes
incoming stimuli
◍ echo reading.
Answer: the teacher reads the text and the student echos and reads with the
same speed and expression
◍ schemata.
Answer: plural of schema; more than one cognitive structure stored in
, memory
◍ metacognition.
Answer: awareness and knowledge of one's mental processes such that one
can monitor, regulate, and direct them to a desired end; thinking about one's
thinking
◍ brainstorming.
Answer: coming up with as many solutions to a problem as possible in a
short period of time with no censoring of ideas
◍ readability.
Answer: the ease with which words, phrases or blocks of text can be read
◍ connotative meaning.
Answer: the meaning suggested by the associations or emotions triggered by
a word or phrase; affective meaning;emotive meaning
◍ denotative meaning.
Answer: the literal or dictionary meaning of a word or phrase; referential
meaning; cognitive meaning
◍ figurative language.
Answer: Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting
up comparisons between dissimilar things, [examples are metaphor, simile,
and personification.
◍ expository text.
Answer: text written to explain and convey information, informational
writing
◍ frustration level.
Answer: a readability of material that is too difficult to be read successfully
by a student, <90% accuracy in word identification, <50% comprehension
◍ Idaho Reading Indicator (IRI).
Answer: an Idaho test administered to k-3 grade students that includes word
recognition, phonic analysis and recoding measurements, students score as
