Literacy Assessment and Intervention Flashcards

Which assessment metric indicates how a student's performance compares to a predetermined level of expected skill?

Answer: Criterion-referenced score

Criterion-referenced scores compare a student's performance to a fixed standard of expected skill, not to other students.

A student is in Tier 2 intervention. Progress monitoring shows no growth after 8 weeks. The BEST next step is to:

Answer: Intensify intervention and consider diagnostic evaluation

Lack of response after 8 weeks indicates a need to intensify or change the intervention and potentially pursue diagnostic evaluation.

Which informal assessment allows teachers to observe a student's reading behaviors, errors, and self-corrections in real time?

Answer: Running record

Running records capture a student's oral reading behaviors — including errors, substitutions, and self-corrections — during live reading.

In the context of assessment, what does 'benchmarking' refer to?

Answer: Measuring all students against grade-level expectations at set points in the year

Benchmarking involves assessing all students against established grade-level expectations, typically three times per year (fall, winter, spring).

Which of the following is a hallmark of a structured literacy intervention program?

Answer: Explicit, systematic, and cumulative instruction with multisensory techniques

Structured literacy interventions are explicit, systematic, and cumulative, often incorporating multisensory techniques (Orton-Gillingham approach).

Dynamic assessment differs from static assessment in that it:

Answer: Includes mediated learning to assess a student's response to instruction

Dynamic assessment includes a test-teach-retest cycle to see how a student responds to targeted instruction, revealing learning potential.