LETRS session8

A test given by a speech language pathologist to determine whether a student meets criteria for a specific disorder

• screening

• diagnostic

• validity

• normed tests

A test given every two weeks to determine whether a new reading program is helping at risk students learn decoding skills.

• monitoring

• screening

• diagnosis

• reliability

A high stakes state reading comprehension test administrated to all students at the end of third grade.

• normed tests

• state test

• outcome assessments

• validity

This refers to whether a given measure accurately predicts how well students will perform on an accountability measure.

• Predictive validity

• Predictive reliability

• Predictive screening

• normed test

A test of foundational skills given three times during first grade to identify at- risk students

• normed tests

• diagnostic

• assessment

• screening

What does diagnosing mean?

• Whether a test measures what it is intended to measure

• Ways to identify what is wrong with poor readers

• Information about how a student's performance compares to that of other students.

• Whether a test measures what it is intended to measure

What refers to whether a test measures what it is intended to measure

• validity

• efficient

• reliable

• normed

What refers to whether a test can be given in little time and at relatively little expense while still yielding valuable information

• validity

• reliability

• efficiency

• normed test

Characteristic of assessments that are likely to yield the same result if given several times on the same day in the same context.

• validity

• efficiency

• reliability

• norm reference

This tells where a student stands in relation to others at his or her grade or age level.

• reliability

• efficiency

• normed

• valid