GACE Reading Study.com Guide 5

The most important quality of a good assessment is ____.

• validity

• standardization

• usability

• reliability

A student complains that only 10 questions on a 100-question test were taken from the material assigned to study for the test. The student is questioning the test's ____.

• validity

• reliability

• usability

• standardization

When an assessment has similar administration procedures, instructions and questions, it is considered to be a ____ assessment.

• valid

• reliable

• standardized

• practical

A school principal wants to know the cost and length of time needed to administer an exam. This refers to the ____ of the exam.

• standardization

• validity

• reliability

• practicality

A parent is confused by her child's score on two exams testing knowledge of musical terminology. On the first test, the child scored a 90. On the second test, the score was 30. What aspect of the test is the parent questioning?

• Validity

• Usability

• Reliability

• Standardization

What is the cloze procedure?

• Multiple choice reading questions

• A technique in which words are deleted in a passage to create blanks that students must then fill in

• Students writing summaries of a story they read

• Asking students to retell something read to them

When using the cloze test to assess vocabulary, make sure that the sentences ____.

• include the required vocabulary term and its definition

• include multiple definitions for each vocabulary term

• contain enough context clues for students to use to figure out which words to fill in the blank

• do not include any context clues for students to use to figure out which words to fill in the blank

A cloze assessment that assesses ____ measures whether students understand parts of speech and sentence structure.

• grammar skills

• vocabulary

• reading fluency

• reading comprehension

What is another name for the cloze procedure?

• open assessment

• cloze aptitude test

• closed assessment

• cloze readability test

By deleting random words ____, you can use a cloze assessment to assess a student's ability to use context clues and sentence structure knowledge to fill in the blanks.

• in a pattern

• and all of the punctuation

• and numbers

• and replacing them with numbers