Educational Assessment Quiz

The zone of proximal development is best described as:

• Where interrelated sets of actions, memories, thoughts or strategies may be used to predict and understand the environment.

• The memory storage that allows children to briefly remember large amounts of information for a very short time.

• The difference between what a child can do independently and what the child can potentially do when working with an adult or more capable peer.

• The concept that children assimilate or accommodate new information and ideas into their current understandings.

At which point in the writing process would you teach students how to capitalize the beginning of sentences?

• Prewriting

• Drafting

• Revision

• Editing

According to the Four-Part Processing Model of Word Recognition, which of the following is correct?

• A word is recognized by first being decoded by an interaction between the phonological awareness and phonics processors; then its meaning determined by the language comprehension processor; and then its appropriate meaning determined through the vocabulary processor.

• A word is recognized by an interaction between the meaning and context processors and then compared to its spelling by an interaction between the phonological and orthographic processors.

• A word is recognized by first being decoded through an interaction between the phonological and orthographic processors; then its meaning determined by the meaning processor; and then its appropriate meaning determined through the context processor.

• A word is recognized by an interaction between phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, and vocabulary.

According to the National Reading Panel, what are three of the five essential areas of reading instruction?

• Comprehension

• Reading aloud

• Phonemic awareness

• Fluency

• Concepts of print

Which of the following are true about the Letter-Name Alphabet Stage of development?

• Students pretend to read but do not point to words on the page.

• Students can read and spell many CVC words correctly.

• When asked to write, students write random strings of letters.

• Students learn to read and spell blends and digraphs in words with short vowels.

Mrs. Gilman wants to support her students’ phonemic awareness development. Which of the following would be appropriate activities to meet that goal?

• Saying the word rocket as rock-et, and asking students to blend the word together.

• Saying the word hat as /h/-/a/-/t/, and asking students to blend the word together.

• Showing students picture cards and asking them to identify which letter each word begins with

• Asking students to clap the sounds they hear in the words fan and stop

What strategies can be used to enhance reading AND writing skills in 1st grade students?

• Language experience approach

• Interactive writing

• Learning how to make connections while reading

• Learning that the letter a has a short sound when it is in a closed syllable

You are planning a phonological awareness activity in which students are practicing finding pictures of words that start with the sound /k/. Which pictures do you want to include in the activity?

• Cot

• Chicken

• Queen

• Kitten

• City

Your students need practice segmenting three phoneme words. Which of the following words would be appropriate to use?

• Cap

• Dot

• Fish

• Elephant

Your 2nd graders need practice mapping graphemes in four phoneme words. Which of the following would you ask them to map?

• stop

• plane

• thin

• black

• frost