ELED 3100 COMPREHENSIVE UPDATED EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Name the E.L.A. (English Language Arts) strands of C.C.S.S. (Common Core State
Standards) - ✔✔Reading
Writing
Speaking and listening
Language
Read. While. Spencer is laughing. Loudly.
✔✔What is the purpose of R.T.I. (Response To Intervention)? - ✔✔To provide students
with extra help before their is an obvious gap
Bring all of our students to the fullest literacy level as possible
✔✔RTI model (guiding principles) - ✔✔1. All students are part of ONE proactive
educational system.
• Belief that all students can learn
• Use ALL available resources to teach All students
2. Use scientific, research-based instruction and interventions
• Core instructional approaches must be successful for most [80%] students
• Supplemental and intensive interventions are provided for at-risk or high risk students
, 3. Data are used to guide instructional decisions
• Align curriculum and instruction with assessment data
4. Use instructionally relevant assessments that are reliable and valid.
• Assessments include: screening/benchmark, diagnostic and progress monitoring
✔✔Discrepancy model - ✔✔The Discrepancy Model is used to determine whether a
child qualifies for special education services. Essentially, it's a measure of how far a
child has fallen behind his peers. First they take a child's IQ, or some measure of his
innate intelligence and determine where his reading skills should be, given his IQ.
Then, depending upon the particular school district's policy, the child must fall behind by
a year, or a year and a half, or even two years, to qualify for special education help, that
is, to qualify for an IEP. Another way to state this is that the discrepancy between your
child's IQ-adjusted age and where he is performing academically must be a lag of one
to two years.
✔✔R.T.I. (Response To Intervention) should support the instruction for what
percentages of students? - ✔✔20%
✔✔Tier 1 instruction - ✔✔All students receive high quality core curriculum instruction
taught by highly qualified teachers using research- based materials and instructional
practices including differentiation.
Instruction is taught by the classroom teacher.
All students participate in screening/benchmark, progress monitoring, and outcome
assessments.
80% of students should reach the program's benchmarks.
If a number of teachers fail to have at least 80% reach the benchmarks, this could be an
indication that the program is ineffective.
If just one or two teachers fail to have at least 80% of students meeting the benchmark
this could be an indication that those teachers are not as effective as they should be.
Tier 1 literacy instruction should be- at a minimum- of 90-120 minutes/day.
All students have a benchmark assessment 3 times/year.
✔✔Tier 2 instruction - ✔✔Some students need additional practice and supplemental
instruction based on diagnostic assessment and extensive progress monitoring.
In the 'ideal' classroom, this would be no more than 15% of your class.
Intervention is differentiated to the needs of the students. The intervention supports the
classroom instruction and in an 'ideal' world, will last from 8-12 weeks.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Name the E.L.A. (English Language Arts) strands of C.C.S.S. (Common Core State
Standards) - ✔✔Reading
Writing
Speaking and listening
Language
Read. While. Spencer is laughing. Loudly.
✔✔What is the purpose of R.T.I. (Response To Intervention)? - ✔✔To provide students
with extra help before their is an obvious gap
Bring all of our students to the fullest literacy level as possible
✔✔RTI model (guiding principles) - ✔✔1. All students are part of ONE proactive
educational system.
• Belief that all students can learn
• Use ALL available resources to teach All students
2. Use scientific, research-based instruction and interventions
• Core instructional approaches must be successful for most [80%] students
• Supplemental and intensive interventions are provided for at-risk or high risk students
, 3. Data are used to guide instructional decisions
• Align curriculum and instruction with assessment data
4. Use instructionally relevant assessments that are reliable and valid.
• Assessments include: screening/benchmark, diagnostic and progress monitoring
✔✔Discrepancy model - ✔✔The Discrepancy Model is used to determine whether a
child qualifies for special education services. Essentially, it's a measure of how far a
child has fallen behind his peers. First they take a child's IQ, or some measure of his
innate intelligence and determine where his reading skills should be, given his IQ.
Then, depending upon the particular school district's policy, the child must fall behind by
a year, or a year and a half, or even two years, to qualify for special education help, that
is, to qualify for an IEP. Another way to state this is that the discrepancy between your
child's IQ-adjusted age and where he is performing academically must be a lag of one
to two years.
✔✔R.T.I. (Response To Intervention) should support the instruction for what
percentages of students? - ✔✔20%
✔✔Tier 1 instruction - ✔✔All students receive high quality core curriculum instruction
taught by highly qualified teachers using research- based materials and instructional
practices including differentiation.
Instruction is taught by the classroom teacher.
All students participate in screening/benchmark, progress monitoring, and outcome
assessments.
80% of students should reach the program's benchmarks.
If a number of teachers fail to have at least 80% reach the benchmarks, this could be an
indication that the program is ineffective.
If just one or two teachers fail to have at least 80% of students meeting the benchmark
this could be an indication that those teachers are not as effective as they should be.
Tier 1 literacy instruction should be- at a minimum- of 90-120 minutes/day.
All students have a benchmark assessment 3 times/year.
✔✔Tier 2 instruction - ✔✔Some students need additional practice and supplemental
instruction based on diagnostic assessment and extensive progress monitoring.
In the 'ideal' classroom, this would be no more than 15% of your class.
Intervention is differentiated to the needs of the students. The intervention supports the
classroom instruction and in an 'ideal' world, will last from 8-12 weeks.
