Passed Knowledge & Practice Exam for Effective Reading Instruction

The Knowledge and Practice Examination for Effective Reading Instruction (KPEERI), formerly the Certification Examination for Effective Reading Instruction (CEERI), measures an educator’s knowledge of the principles and practices of Structured Literacy™.

Structured Literacy™ is an approach to reading instruction that is beneficial for both general education students at risk for reading difficulties due to a variety of factors (e.g. low socio-economic status, status as an English learner) and for students with disabilities.

This approach is characterized by the provision of systematic, explicit instruction that integrates listening, speaking, reading and writing and emphasizes the structure of language across the speech sound system (phonology), the writing system (orthography), the structure of sentences (syntax), the meaningful parts of words (morphology), the relationships among words (semantics), and the organization of spoken and written discourse.

The KPEERI exam was developed under the guidance of Applied Measurement Professionals (AMP), with the input of 1,200 educators.  The exam is computer-based and consists of 110 multiple-choice questions consisting of the following types:

• Recall (34%)

• Application (48%)

• Analysis (18%)

Candidates are given a total of two (2) hours in which to complete the exam.