RICA Test Prep Questions and Answers
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What are the 3 primary purposes of reading assessment? ✔✔1. Entry Level Assessments - they
are implemented prior to instruction to determine which students have already m
...
RICA Test Prep Questions and Answers
100% Pass
What are the 3 primary purposes of reading assessment? ✔✔1. Entry Level Assessments - they
are implemented prior to instruction to determine which students have already mastered the skills
that are going to be taught and which posess the prerequisite skills and knowledge.
2. Monitoring of Progress Assessments - during the instructional unit, tell which students are
making adequate progress toward the standard.
3. Summative Assessments - determines which students have achieved the target standard, some
measure student achievement of a single standard, where as others, often given quarterly,
midyear and at the end of the year, measure many standards.
What are some alternative assessments for students with an IEP or Section 504 plan? ✔✔1. Give
Students More Time
2. Divide the Assessment into smaller units (spread over 2 days).
3. Change the mode of delivery (ask the student to tell, rather than write).
4. Provide Practice Assessments.
5. Provide A Simpler Version of the Assessment (if the student does not read at the 5th gtade
level, give them something that is at a simpler level and note that the standard was not met).
Quality Indicators That Apply to Standardized Assessments ✔✔1. Reliability
B. Validity
C. How to Interpret the Results of Standardized Tests
What Assessments Are Used to Determine Students' Reading Levels? ✔✔1. Informal Reading
Inventories (IRI)
2. Word Recognition Lists
3. Graded Reading Passages
What is an Informal Reading Inventory? ✔✔An IRI us a collection of assessments administered
individually to students. For an IRI, one adult gives the assessments to one student. The selection
of the IRI depends on the students reading level.
What are some types of assessments that are included in an Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)?
✔✔1. Word Recognition Lists
2. Graded Reading Passages
3. Reading Interest Survey
4. Assessments Measuring Concepts about Print
5. Phonemic Awareness Assessments
6. Phonics Assessments
7. Assessments of Reading Fluency
8. Structural Analysis Assessments
9. Vocabulary Assessments
10. Spelling Tests
What is the purpose of a word recognition list? ✔✔They serve 3 purposes:
1. to provide a rough guess of the child's reading level so that whoever is administering the tests
knows where to start on the graded reading passages.
2. to provide information on the child's "sight" vocabulary, the words the child can correctly
identify
3. provide information about the student's ability to use sound-symbol relationships (phonics) to
decode words. The child's errors will provide a partial picture of what letters and letter
combinations the child knows and which ones he or she needs to learn.
Which Assessment is the most important part of the IRI? ✔✔The graded reading passages.
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