ICLA Standard 3 Exam Questions and Answers
1. accountability the idea that schools or teachers are responsible for educational outcomes and
should be evaluated
2. anecdotal record an informal description of behavior; a reporting of observed behavioral incidents
3. assessment the act or process of gathering data in order to better understand the strengths
and needs of student learning
4. authentic assess- a type of assessment designed to evaluate students' literacy skills in real-world
ment situations, as opposed to their performance on standardized tests
5. benchmark the standard scoring range provided for assessments that indicate student perfor-
mance at or above grade level
6. causation the act or process of causing something to happen or exist; direct cause and ettect
relationship
7. central tendency refers to the "middle" value or perhaps a typical value of the data and is measured
using mean, median, and mode
8. cloze procedure 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
9. concepts of print assessment that measures book and text concepts, which include front/back, title
and author, directionality, text structure (letter, word, sentence, punctuation), etc.
10. correlation the relationship or connection between two or more measures; the strength of the
relationship between two or ore things
11. criterion-refer- assessment of performance on a test in terms of the kind of behavior or knowledge
enced expected of a person with a given score
assessment
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12. curricu- the appraisal of student progress by using materials and procedures directly from
lum-based the curriculum taught
measure (CBM)
13. decoding the process of reading by which a student matches graphemes to phonemes,
syllables, and words; fluent readers engage in decoding with automaticity
14. diagnostic as- a form of pre-assessment that allows a teacher to determine students' individual
sessment strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, and skills prior to instruction
15. evaluation using specific factors and assessments to make a judgement on students' strengths
and weaknesses
16. formal assess- directions for administration are clear cut and allow little, if any, discretion in
ment administration or interpretation of scores on the teacher's part; scored carefully in
a prescribed manner; standardized tests like the state or local education agencies
mandate are examples (ISAT, DWA)
17. formative assess- a range of formal and informal assessment procedures employed by teachers
ment during the learning process in order to modify teaching and learning activities to
improve student attainment
18. grade equivalent estimate of a student's reading grade level corresponding to a given student's raw
score (this is a highly dubious norm whose use is oflcially discouraged by the
International Literacy Association)
19. grapheme a letter or letter combination that spells a phoneme; can be one, two, three, or four
letters in English (i.e. e, ei, igh, eigh)
20. high-frequency ability to recognize words with automaticity
word recognition
21.
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1. accountability the idea that schools or teachers are responsible for educational outcomes and
should be evaluated
2. anecdotal record an informal description of behavior; a reporting of observed behavioral incidents
3. assessment the act or process of gathering data in order to better understand the strengths
and needs of student learning
4. authentic assess- a type of assessment designed to evaluate students' literacy skills in real-world
ment situations, as opposed to their performance on standardized tests
5. benchmark the standard scoring range provided for assessments that indicate student perfor-
mance at or above grade level
6. causation the act or process of causing something to happen or exist; direct cause and ettect
relationship
7. central tendency refers to the "middle" value or perhaps a typical value of the data and is measured
using mean, median, and mode
8. cloze procedure 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
9. concepts of print assessment that measures book and text concepts, which include front/back, title
and author, directionality, text structure (letter, word, sentence, punctuation), etc.
10. correlation the relationship or connection between two or more measures; the strength of the
relationship between two or ore things
11. criterion-refer- assessment of performance on a test in terms of the kind of behavior or knowledge
enced expected of a person with a given score
assessment
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12. curricu- the appraisal of student progress by using materials and procedures directly from
lum-based the curriculum taught
measure (CBM)
13. decoding the process of reading by which a student matches graphemes to phonemes,
syllables, and words; fluent readers engage in decoding with automaticity
14. diagnostic as- a form of pre-assessment that allows a teacher to determine students' individual
sessment strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, and skills prior to instruction
15. evaluation using specific factors and assessments to make a judgement on students' strengths
and weaknesses
16. formal assess- directions for administration are clear cut and allow little, if any, discretion in
ment administration or interpretation of scores on the teacher's part; scored carefully in
a prescribed manner; standardized tests like the state or local education agencies
mandate are examples (ISAT, DWA)
17. formative assess- a range of formal and informal assessment procedures employed by teachers
ment during the learning process in order to modify teaching and learning activities to
improve student attainment
18. grade equivalent estimate of a student's reading grade level corresponding to a given student's raw
score (this is a highly dubious norm whose use is oflcially discouraged by the
International Literacy Association)
19. grapheme a letter or letter combination that spells a phoneme; can be one, two, three, or four
letters in English (i.e. e, ei, igh, eigh)
20. high-frequency ability to recognize words with automaticity
word recognition
21.
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