Reading Assessment and Instruction

Involves using student assessment data and other relevant information to determine how to best enhance students’ academic and behavioral outcomes across all tiers of support.

• Data-Based Decision Making
• Qualitative Data

• Progress Monitoring

• MTSS

evaluates a student’s attitudes, values, beliefs, and emotions related to a particular subject or domain.

• Personality Assessment

• Affective Domain Assessment

• Culture

• Behavior Assessment

This is something to consider when creating an assessment. Whether an assessment’s conclusion, measurement, and concept correspondence to what is being tested is accurate.

A pre-test or pre-assessment that teachers use to evaluate students knowledge, skills, strengths and weaknesses before instruction.

• Diagnostic Assessment

• Informal Assessment

• Formal Assessment

• Progress Monitoring Assessment

The degree to which the result of a measurement, calculation, or specification can be depended on to be accurate.

Test basic letter recognition, sight word knowledge, and decoding skills to determine whether students would benefit from explicit instruction in decoding and word recognition (2 words)

This is a type of assessment that teachers can use to help identify students who are not meeting grade level goals.

• Diagnostic Assessment

• Informal Assessment

• Screening Assessment

• Formal Assessment

Informal assessment that evaluates 14 aspects of phonemic awareness. (Abrv.)

A way for teachers to evaluate student understanding without using a standard criteria or rubric.

• Standardized Assessment

• Diagnostic Assessment

• Formal Assessment

• Informal Assessment

This measures a student’s ability to recognize and read sight words.

• PAST

• High-Frequency Word Assessment

• ORF

• Vocabulary Assessment