 | Term | Definition |
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Authentic Assessment |
a measurement of real-life performance concerned with helping students udnerstanding what they are doing and nipping problems in the bud |
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Performance Assessment |
actual demonstration of what students can do within a particular area |
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Diagnostic Pattern |
Three steps of diagnosis: identification, appraisal, diagnosis |
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Identification |
act of deterniming student's present level of performance in word recognition and comprehension |
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Appraisal |
student's present reading performance in relation to his or her potential |
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Diagnosis |
finding reading strengths and weaknesses and their causes |
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Disabled/struggling reader |
a reader who is reading below his or her ability. One that is underachieving ex. reading at a lower level lower than their grade |
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Dyslexia |
severve reading disability. a person who does not recognize or decode printed words on a page |
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Motivation |
interal impetus behind behavior takes; ex: drive |
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Intelligence |
Ability to reason abstractly; problem soving ability based on heirarchical organization of two things symbolic representations and stragegies. ex; mathematical formulas are abstract |
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Halo Effect |
a response bias that contaminates an idividual's perception in rating or evaluation. ex: if her brother did well at math, so will she. |
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Factors that affect reading performance |
Home environment, gender, physical health |
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Educational Factors |
School district, methods or materials, teachers, intstucitonal time, school environment |
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Non Educaitonal Factors |
vision, health, hearing, intelligence, gender |
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Concept Development |
closely related to language development: quality of language development depends on intelligence, home environment, sex differences, family makeup |
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Piaget |
Swiss psychologist who says children's cognitive development depends on thier ability to organize, classify, and to adapt to their environments |
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