Mixed Deck — All ELPAC Topics Flashcards
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Which of the following ELPAC preparation strategies specifically supports the Listening domain?
Answer: Listening to grade-level academic audio and answering comprehension questions
Engaging with academic audio content and responding to comprehension questions directly targets listening proficiency.
What is the term for the ELPAC score that combines performance across all four domains?
Answer: Composite score
The ELPAC composite score is the overall score that combines student performance across the Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing domains.
Which answer choice best describes a 'Read and Interpret Visuals' task on the ELPAC?
Answer: Using labels, diagrams, or graphics to answer comprehension questions
This task type requires students to read and interpret visual elements such as diagrams, maps, or labeled graphics to answer questions.
In the ELPAC Oral Language Production task, a student is shown a picture of a park scene and asked to describe what they see. Which skill is PRIMARILY being assessed?
Answer: Spontaneous oral description using contextual vocabulary
Picture description tasks assess a student's ability to spontaneously produce oral language using vocabulary appropriate to the visual context.
A student's Individualized Education Program (IEP) specifies the 'read-aloud' accommodation for all classroom and state testing. When preparing for the ELPAC Reading domain, the test examiner reviews this requirement. Which of the following statements is the most accurate?
Answer: Reading the passages aloud would invalidate the construct of the Reading domain and is not a permissible accommodation for this specific domain.
The purpose of the ELPAC Reading domain is to assess a student's ability to read and comprehend English text. Reading the passages aloud to the student would measure their listening comprehension, not their reading ability, thereby invalidating the construct of the assessment. This is not an allowable accommodation for the Reading domain.
At the Emerging level, a student's Speaking domain performance would most likely reflect:
Answer: Limited responses using basic vocabulary and simple grammatical structures
Emerging-level students in the Speaking domain typically produce limited responses with basic vocabulary and simple structures, consistent with early English acquisition.
Which ELPAC universal tool allows students to flag items for review during computer-based testing?
Answer: Mark for review/bookmarking tool
The mark-for-review or bookmarking tool is an ELPAC universal digital tool that allows all students to flag questions to revisit before submitting.
How are the ELPAC assessments aligned with California’s educational standards?
Answer: They are based on the California English Language Development Standards
The ELPAC assessments are specifically designed to align with the California English Language Development (ELD) Standards. These standards outline the English language skills that English learners are expected to acquire at each proficiency level and grade span, ensuring the assessment accurately reflects the state's instructional goals for ELs.
What is the purpose of the Summative ELPAC?
Answer: To annually measure the English proficiency of identified English learners
The Summative ELPAC is administered annually to measure the English proficiency growth of students already identified as English learners.
How many performance levels exist for ELPAC Summative composite scores?
Answer: 4
The ELPAC Summative uses four performance levels: 1 (Minimally Developed), 2 (Somewhat Developed), 3 (Moderately Developed), and 4 (Well Developed).
A Grade 3 ELPAC student listens to a teacher explain how to make a paper airplane and then answers questions about the order of steps. What skill cluster does this task represent?
Answer: Listening to and following procedural/instructional discourse
Procedural or instructional discourse tasks require students to track and sequence specific steps given orally.
A student who is reclassified as Fluent English Proficient (RFEP) on the ELPAC must meet which minimum overall score?
Answer: Reaching
Students must score at the Reaching level on the ELPAC as one criterion to be reclassified as Fluent English Proficient.
In an ELPAC Listening passage for Grade 5, a narrator describes how bees communicate through dance. A question asks students to explain why this behavior is important. What skill level does this represent?
Answer: Higher-order comprehension: explaining significance of information
Explaining the significance or 'why' behind information requires higher-order thinking beyond basic recall.
Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of the 'Task Comprehension' criterion used when scoring ELPAC speaking tasks?
Answer: It measures how well the student's response addressed the prompt's intent
Task Comprehension evaluates whether the student understood what the task was asking and responded appropriately to that intent.
On the ELPAC Reading domain, which skill is most directly being measured?
Answer: A student's ability to comprehend written English texts
The Reading domain assesses how well students understand and interpret written English passages and questions.
On the ELPAC, how are Listening domain scores reported in relation to overall English proficiency?
Answer: Listening domain scores contribute to the overall composite proficiency level determination
ELPAC domain scores (Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing) each contribute to the overall composite score that determines a student's proficiency level.
In a scenario where a teacher is assessing a kindergarten student's foundational reading skills for the ELPAC, the teacher reads a story aloud while the student follows along, looking at accompanying pictures. What is the primary purpose of the 'Read-Along Story with Scaffolding' task type?
Answer: To evaluate the student's listening comprehension and ability to connect spoken words with text and images.
The 'Read-Along Story with Scaffolding' task for Kindergarten and Grade 1 involves the test examiner reading a story aloud with pictures while the student follows along. The goal is to assess comprehension by connecting what they hear to the text and supporting images, not independent reading of complex text or oral fluency.
When a student scores at Performance Level 1 on the Initial ELPAC, what designation do they typically receive?
Answer: English Learner (EL)
A Level 1 score on the Initial ELPAC indicates limited English proficiency, resulting in an English Learner designation and eligibility for language support services.
When an ELPAC Listening passage is played, students are typically allowed to do which of the following?
Answer: Take notes and use them when answering questions
ELPAC Listening tasks generally allow note-taking, helping students capture key details from the oral passage to reference when answering.
During ELPAC speaking tasks, how should an examiner handle a student's response that is partially in the home language?
Answer: Mark the response as non-scorable and re-prompt once
If a student responds partially in their home language, the examiner should mark it as non-scorable and may re-prompt once using the approved re-prompt language.