EDCI 3701 Final Exam 2025 With 100%
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Assessment definition and purpose - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A process of collecting data for the
purpose of making decisions about individuals and groups.
Curriculum Based Assessment (CBA) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔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 ANSWER✔✔- Inventories and Screening Devices
- Classroom Quizzes
- Criterion-Referenced Tests
- CBM
Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔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 ANSWER✔✔At a 'street' level:
o Screening decisions
o Progress monitoring decisions
o Diagnostic decisions
o Accountability/outcome decisions
Critical areas of reading instruction - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Comprehension, vocabulary,
fluency, phonemic awareness, phonics
,Informal reading inventory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔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 ANSWER✔✔- 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 determined; use accompanying scale
to determine progress-monitoring material
Betts Criteria - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-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 ANSWER✔✔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 ANSWER✔✔-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
Standard deviation (SD) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔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 ANSWER✔✔- Mean score of 100- grade level
appropriate
- 85-115 is average scores
- + or - 15 from the mean
CBM's original instrument design characteristics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔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 ANSWER✔✔As special educators,
we can use assessment formatively to inform or modify instruction
General outcome measurement vs. mastery measurement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔General
outcome- they progress monitor (ORF, dibels, maze, math probe).
Mastery- skill based (ex: our quizzes in class).
Formative vs. summative assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Can be differentiated by time at
which administered
o Formative assessment takes place during instruction (ex: CBM)
Correct Answers
Assessment definition and purpose - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A process of collecting data for the
purpose of making decisions about individuals and groups.
Curriculum Based Assessment (CBA) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔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 ANSWER✔✔- Inventories and Screening Devices
- Classroom Quizzes
- Criterion-Referenced Tests
- CBM
Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔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 ANSWER✔✔At a 'street' level:
o Screening decisions
o Progress monitoring decisions
o Diagnostic decisions
o Accountability/outcome decisions
Critical areas of reading instruction - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Comprehension, vocabulary,
fluency, phonemic awareness, phonics
,Informal reading inventory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔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 ANSWER✔✔- 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 determined; use accompanying scale
to determine progress-monitoring material
Betts Criteria - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-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 ANSWER✔✔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 ANSWER✔✔-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
Standard deviation (SD) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔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 ANSWER✔✔- Mean score of 100- grade level
appropriate
- 85-115 is average scores
- + or - 15 from the mean
CBM's original instrument design characteristics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔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 ANSWER✔✔As special educators,
we can use assessment formatively to inform or modify instruction
General outcome measurement vs. mastery measurement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔General
outcome- they progress monitor (ORF, dibels, maze, math probe).
Mastery- skill based (ex: our quizzes in class).
Formative vs. summative assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Can be differentiated by time at
which administered
o Formative assessment takes place during instruction (ex: CBM)
