The Assessment of Reading Performance

 Assessment is primarily about aligning objectives with activities carried out.

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Assessment in reading instruction does not help students monitor their progress.

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• False

Diagnostic assessments focus on identifying students' strengths and weaknesses before instruction.

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• False

According to Erwin (1991), assessment is a random process of collecting information.

• True

• False

Informal Reading Inventories (IRIs) are used to diagnose and remediate phonological knowledge and vocabulary.

• True

• False

Phonological awareness includes recognizing that spoken words are made up of individual sounds.

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• False

Summative assessments occur regularly throughout the instruction process.

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• False

Fluency bridges word recognition and comprehension by allowing smooth transitions between words

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• False

Reading assessments are exclusively for academic purposes and have no real-life applications

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• False

Comprehension involves decoding, connecting to prior knowledge, and analyzing the text.

• True

• False