Test your basic knowledge |

ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






2. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






3. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






4. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






5. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






6. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






7. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






8. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






9. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






10. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






11. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






12. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






13. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






14. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






15. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






16. r-controlled syllable






17. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






18. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






19. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






20. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






21. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






22. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






23. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






24. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






25. Academic Language Therapy Association






26. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






27. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






28. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






29. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






30. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






31. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view


32. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






33. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






34. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






35. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






36. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






37. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






38. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






39. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with


40. State Board of Eduation






41. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






42. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






43. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






44. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.


45. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






46. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






47. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






48. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.


49. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






50. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.