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Assessment definition and purpose - Correct Answers ✅A
process of collecting data for the purpose of making decisions
about individuals and groups.
Curriculum Based Assessment (CBA) - Correct Answers
✅An approach that uses direct observation and recording of
a student's performance in the school curriculum as a basis
for obtaining information to make instructional decisions
(Deno, 1987)
Examples of CBA - Correct Answers ✅- Inventories and
Screening Devices
- Classroom Quizzes
- Criterion-Referenced Tests
- CBM
Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM) - Correct Answers
✅The use of specific procedures whereby the student's
academic skills are assessed from repeated rate samples
using stimulus materials taken from the student's curriculum.
Assessment decisions - Correct Answers ✅At a 'street'
level:
o Screening decisions
o Progress monitoring decisions
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o Diagnostic decisions
o Accountability/outcome decisions
Critical areas of reading instruction - Correct Answers
✅Comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, phonemic awareness,
phonics
Informal reading inventory - Correct Answers ✅Provides
information about a student's general reading level
Involves a student reading passages of increasing grade-level
difficulty and answering passage-related questions
Goal is to determine a student's instructional reading level
(vs. independent or frustration level)
o Student can recognize 95 percent of the words in the
passage and comprehends about 75 percent of the material
CBM- Survey Level Assessment - Correct Answers ✅-
Provides a general sample of a student's reading behavior
and used to determine a student's instructional level and
guide assessment/instruction
- Steps include administering 3 grade-level passages,
determining both median Words Read Correctly in a Minute
(WRCM) and errors; determine if in instructional range (see
attachment); if yes, use grade-level reading passages for
progress-monitoring purposes; if not, repeat process in next-
lower grade-level material until instructional level
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determined; use accompanying scale to determine progress-
monitoring material
Betts Criteria - Correct Answers ✅-Used for determining
passage reading level
-Utilize graded word lists (i.e., recognition) and passages (i.e.,
question comprehension)
Three levels of Betts Criteria - Correct Answers ✅Three
levels:
- Independent - 99-100% word recognition and 90-100%
comprehension
- Instructional - 95-98% word recognition and 75-89%
comprehension
- Frustration - 90% or lower word recognition or 50% or lower
comprehension
Math CBM - Correct Answers ✅-Historical focus was on
computation
-Recent focus has switched to concepts and applications for
school-aged populations above first grade
-Early numeracy skill development the focus of kindergarten
and first grades
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Standard deviation (SD) - Correct Answers ✅Distance from
the mean.
On most scales of interest, one SD = 15 points
68% of the population is within 1 SD of the mean (+ or -);
AVERAGE RANGE
96% of the population is within 2 SD of the mean (+ or -)
Most common standard score - Correct Answers ✅- Mean
score of 100- grade level appropriate
- 85-115 is average scores
- + or - 15 from the mean
CBM's original instrument design characteristics - Correct
Answers ✅CBM- the use of specific procedures whereby the
student's academic skills are assessed from repeated rate
samples using stimulus materials taken from the student's
curriculum.
** It's valid (test measures what it is supposed to) and
reliable (consistent) and easy for teachers to use.
CBM's importance to special education practice - Correct
Answers ✅As special educators, we can use assessment
formatively to inform or modify instruction
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Assessment definition and purpose - Correct Answers ✅A
process of collecting data for the purpose of making decisions
about individuals and groups.
Curriculum Based Assessment (CBA) - Correct Answers
✅An approach that uses direct observation and recording of
a student's performance in the school curriculum as a basis
for obtaining information to make instructional decisions
(Deno, 1987)
Examples of CBA - Correct Answers ✅- Inventories and
Screening Devices
- Classroom Quizzes
- Criterion-Referenced Tests
- CBM
Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM) - Correct Answers
✅The use of specific procedures whereby the student's
academic skills are assessed from repeated rate samples
using stimulus materials taken from the student's curriculum.
Assessment decisions - Correct Answers ✅At a 'street'
level:
o Screening decisions
o Progress monitoring decisions
,EDCI 3701 Final Exam Questions and
Answers (Top Grade Assured) 2026
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o Diagnostic decisions
o Accountability/outcome decisions
Critical areas of reading instruction - Correct Answers
✅Comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, phonemic awareness,
phonics
Informal reading inventory - Correct Answers ✅Provides
information about a student's general reading level
Involves a student reading passages of increasing grade-level
difficulty and answering passage-related questions
Goal is to determine a student's instructional reading level
(vs. independent or frustration level)
o Student can recognize 95 percent of the words in the
passage and comprehends about 75 percent of the material
CBM- Survey Level Assessment - Correct Answers ✅-
Provides a general sample of a student's reading behavior
and used to determine a student's instructional level and
guide assessment/instruction
- Steps include administering 3 grade-level passages,
determining both median Words Read Correctly in a Minute
(WRCM) and errors; determine if in instructional range (see
attachment); if yes, use grade-level reading passages for
progress-monitoring purposes; if not, repeat process in next-
lower grade-level material until instructional level
,EDCI 3701 Final Exam Questions and
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determined; use accompanying scale to determine progress-
monitoring material
Betts Criteria - Correct Answers ✅-Used for determining
passage reading level
-Utilize graded word lists (i.e., recognition) and passages (i.e.,
question comprehension)
Three levels of Betts Criteria - Correct Answers ✅Three
levels:
- Independent - 99-100% word recognition and 90-100%
comprehension
- Instructional - 95-98% word recognition and 75-89%
comprehension
- Frustration - 90% or lower word recognition or 50% or lower
comprehension
Math CBM - Correct Answers ✅-Historical focus was on
computation
-Recent focus has switched to concepts and applications for
school-aged populations above first grade
-Early numeracy skill development the focus of kindergarten
and first grades
, EDCI 3701 Final Exam Questions and
Answers (Top Grade Assured) 2026
Update
Standard deviation (SD) - Correct Answers ✅Distance from
the mean.
On most scales of interest, one SD = 15 points
68% of the population is within 1 SD of the mean (+ or -);
AVERAGE RANGE
96% of the population is within 2 SD of the mean (+ or -)
Most common standard score - Correct Answers ✅- Mean
score of 100- grade level appropriate
- 85-115 is average scores
- + or - 15 from the mean
CBM's original instrument design characteristics - Correct
Answers ✅CBM- the use of specific procedures whereby the
student's academic skills are assessed from repeated rate
samples using stimulus materials taken from the student's
curriculum.
** It's valid (test measures what it is supposed to) and
reliable (consistent) and easy for teachers to use.
CBM's importance to special education practice - Correct
Answers ✅As special educators, we can use assessment
formatively to inform or modify instruction
