Assessing Students with Special Needs Chapter 13

What is the major purpose for assessing reading skills in special education assessment?

• To determine if a disability is present.

• To find out if a student has the skills to be mainstreamed.

• To determine whether a student shows poor performance in reading in relation to grade peers.

• To compare oral language development with rate of acquisition of written language skills.

In reading assessment, it is important to consider

• silent and oral reading

• decoding and comprehension

• ability to use reading in everyday situations

• all of the above

Which measure would you select to determine if a student's reading comprehension skills were within the average range for his or her grade?

• TORC–4

• Informal reading inventory

• Brigance® Diagnostic Inventory

• Word Identification subtest, WRMT–III

Traditional reading assessment measures are product-oriented and based upon which approach to reading?

•          Top-down

• Bottom-up

• Interaction

• Spontaneous

Which statement is false?

• Informal reading inventories provide information about the student's independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels.

•       Miscue analysis is a form of error analysis in which the student's reading errors are studied to determine if they alter the meaning of the passage.

• High frequency word lists such as the Dolch Basic Sight Word List are used to assess students' skills in reading content subject textbooks.

• The cloze procedure can be used to determine if a textbook is within a student's instructional reading level.

A criterion-referenced test of reading skills can be used to

• assess mastery of specific skills

• evaluate curriculum effectiveness

• help develop an IEP

• all of the above

Identify a norm-referenced assessment that measures oral reading fluency and comprehension of passages

• curriculum-based measurement

• GORT-5

• WRMT-III

• IRI

A method in which every 5th word is omitted from a reading passage so that students can fill in the blanks with the missing words is called:

• maze procedure

• cloze procedure

• miscue analysis

• criterion-referenced assessment

When conducting an error analysis of a student’s oral reading, the assessor indicates an omission by

• slashing through the word on the assessor’s copy of the text

• circling the word on the assessor’s copy of the text

• underlining the word on the assessor’s copy of the text

•          none of the above

Reading skills are assessed because

• reading is an easy skill to assess

• reading is an important component of school achievement

• reading is a minimum competency for grade advancement for most schools

• b and c