LETRS Unit 1 Session 7
Once children are ___________ - which happens very early - they do not catch up unless intervention
is intensive, timely, and well informed.
behind
__________ is a type of assessment that has the following characteristics; all students once per year,
tests have time limits, silent and independent reading, passage comprehension, scores are reported as
percentiles or NCE and states may develop their own or use National.
Outcome
__________ is a type of assessment that has the following characteristics; predict fluent reading by
3rd grade, word-reading abilities are strong predictors of passage reading, selected students should
receive more in-depth surveys of strengths and weaknesses, screening should be brief.
Screening
_________ is a type of assessment with the following characteristics; formative assessments, brief &
measure progress towards a goal, forms allow for frequent administration, given 1-3 weeks and
determine effectiveness of instruction.
Progress Monitoring
__________ is a type of assessment with the following characteristics; given only to students at risk,
longer than screening test, detailed information about student mastery and inform instruction and
aspects of treatment.
Diagnostic Survey
_________ - ____________ tests refers to standardized tests that are designed to compare and rank
test-takers in relation to each other.
Norm - referenced
_______ _________ are used to predict who is most likely to pass the high-stakes outcome tests given
at the end of each grade. Examples are; letter-naming, phoneme segmentation, grapheme-phoneme
correspondence, word reading lists, nonsense word reading, spelling and phonetic spelling accuracy,
oral passage reading fluency (mid 1st) and Maze passage reading (3rd and beyond).
Screening Measures
_______ _______ with questions is a good early indicator of language comprehension.
Read Aloud
Valid measure actually measures what was intended is called....
construct validity
Valid measures that corresponds well to other known measures is called...
concurrent validity
