THE IOWA TESTS
Listening
(Grade 3 Only)
Provided by Home Ed (Home Educators of Greater Little Rock)
Listening (grade 3 only)
The Listening test measures the skills that students need to comprehend written material when it is presented orally. The situations in the test tap many of the general comprehension skills necessary for understanding meaning in reading, but those skills are applied to understanding material that students are more likely to hear than to read, such as school announcements, reports on the radio, brief instructions, and weather forecasts. The response choices are a mixture of pictorial and text-based stimuli so that aural, visual, quantitative, and verbal skills are needed in answering the questions. However, like the Reading Comprehension test, the Listening test requires students to comprehend both literal and inferential meaning. In addition, the test measures students' abilities to follow directions, understand concepts and sequences, and predict outcomes.