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
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
