Diagnostics Flashcards
(19 cards)
Balanced reading
Program that incorporates various philosophies, teaching strategies, and materials to achieve the best possible reading instruction for children
Developmental reading
Reading skills and strategies that are systematically and sequentially developed to help students become affective readers
Remedial reading
Takes place inside or outside the regular classroom and is handled by special person
Bottom-up
Models that consider the reading process as one of grapheme/phoneme correspondences; code emphasis or sub skill models
Top-down
Models that depend on readers background of experiences and language ability in constructing meaning from the text
Interactive
Models that consider the top-down processing of information as dependent on the bottom-up processing
Criteria for good tests
Objectivity
Reliability
Validity
Suitability
Suitability
The appropriateness of a test for specific population of students
Validity
The degree to which a test instrument leads to valid inferences. That is, the degree to which it really measures what it claims to measure
Objectivity
The same score must result regardless of who grades the test
Reliability
The extent to which a test instrument consistently produces similar results
Authentic assessments
Using authentic, real life materials to assess students reading
Performance based assessments
Using a situation or project where learners can demonstrate knowledge
Criterion referenced tests
Based on extensive inventory of objectives in the specific curriculum.; They are used to help assess an individual students performance with respect to his or her mastery of specific objectives in a given curriculum area
Norm references tests
Standardized test with norm so that comparisons can be made to a sample population
Independent level
Level at which the child reads words without any assistance and comprehends the text
Instructional level
The teaching level
Frustration level
The child reads with many word recognition and comprehension errors it is the lowest reading level and one to be a voided
Listening capacity
The highest level at which a learner can understand material when it is read aloud
