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TExES Science of Teaching Reading (STR) EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWER
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TExES Science of Teaching Reading (STR) EXAM 2025QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWER
Which of the following is NOT an essential component for creating valid assessments?
A) Academic language
B) Absence of bias
C) Appropriate level
D) Clarity of language - answer>>>A) Academic language
A student who struggles with reading motivation would most benefit from:
A) student choice.
B) variation in difficulty of assigned reading.
C) flexible grouping.
D) variation in difficulty of independent practice. - answer>>>A) student choice.
A 3rd grade teacher incorporates fluency practice throughout the school year. Just before the end of the
first semester, he uses the district-provided fluency assessment to assess scores from the beginning of
the school year. This assessment is an example of
A) entry-level assessment
B) summative assessment
C) ongoing curriculum-based assessment
D) informal assessment - answer>>>C) ongoing curriculum-based assessment
A third-grade student who is a struggling reader has shown some improvement in reading fluency but is
still struggling to decode multisyllabic words. The student has an IEP that requires test questions but not
reading passages as a whole to be read aloud. How can the student's teacher best support their reading
development?
,A) By requesting that the IEP is changed to include reading entire passages aloud
B) By continuing with the current plan because the student's reading fluency is improving over all
C) By providing specific instruction on structural analysis
D) By requesting that the IEP is changed to require reading words and phrases aloud at the student's
request - answer>>>C) By providing specific instruction on structural analysis
Which of the following terms means that a test produces the same scores when given in the same
conditions?
A) Validity
B) Legibility
C) Absence of bias
D) Reliability - answer>>>D) Reliability
Which of the following terms means that a test measures what it is supposed to measure?
A) Validity
B) Absence of bias
C) Legibility
D) Reliability - answer>>>A) Validity
Which of the following best describes the degree to which an assessment accurately measures what it
intends to measure?
A) Validity
B) Predictability
C) Agility
D) Reliability - answer>>>A) Validity
Which of the following is a characteristic of a congruent assessment?
, A) Standardized format similar to the style of a state-mandated assessment
B) Covers only content and information explicitly and directly taught in class
C) Clear alignment with learning objectives and content covered in class
D) Absence of bias - answer>>>C) Clear alignment with learning objectives and content covered in class
Which of the following ideas is supported by current research on emergent literacy?
A) Emergent literacy development will not directly impact the following stages of literacy development.
B) Emergent literacy begins with direct instruction, but it can be extended by real world experiences.
C) Emergent literacy skills begin developing prior to formal schooling.
D) Children will only develop literacy skills after explicit phonological awareness instruction. -
answer>>>C) Emergent literacy skills begin developing prior to formal schooling.
Which of the following scenarios describes a student who has entered the partial alphabetic phase of
word recognition?
A) A student reads familiar sight words in a book independently but stops at an unfamiliar word, "step",
and sounds out this word letter by letter, "s-t-e-p."
B) A student sees the familiar purple and orange logo on a delivery van and says, "Fed Ex" as the truck
stops at the school for delivery.
C) A student sees a picture of a leaf and the letter "l" at the beginning of a word in the book "The Very
Hungry Caterpillar" and says "leaf."
D) A student is reading a story when he encounters an unfamiliar word, "slick." He uses his knowledge of
other words such as "stick," "brick," and "tick" to determine the pronunciation. - answer>>>C) A student
sees a picture of a leaf and the letter "l" at the beginning of a word in the book "The Very Hungry
Caterpillar" and says "leaf."
Which of the following descriptions best describes the linguistic term language acquisition?
A) Studying the rules of a language, such as the way words combine to make sentences and longer
phrases.
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