Assessments
Benchmark Assessment for Progress Monitoring
Benchmark assessment are assessments given throughout the school year that allow teachers to get immediate formative feedback on how their students are performing. This information can be extremely beneficial for adjusting curriculum according to students needs. See more progress monitoring.
PALS
PALS has a number of free Phonological Awareness screening resources.
https://pals.virginia.edu/tools-activities.html
Lexia
Lexia Learning is a great product in which students have specific logins and their progress is tracked over time. It is specifically gears toward emergent readers. It "provides a research-proven method for students to acquire foundational reading skills."
Early Reading Assessment Tools
"This searchable database describes in detail all available early reading assessment tools that are published and distributed in the SEDL region. It is intended to provide valuable information about all of the options available to teachers and administrators who are seeking reliable reading assessment tools for children in grades Pre-K to 3."
http://www.sedl.org/reading/rad/
Create Your Own Reading Probes
OKAPI - The "Internet Application for Creating Curriculum-Based Assessment Reading Probes."
http://www.lefthandlogic.com/htmdocs/tools/okapi/okapi.php
Running Records
Analyzing and Scoring a Running Record
Guided Reading Lesson Plan and Running Record Scoring Sheet
Qualitative Analysis: Teacher can analyze a the running record to observe how the child uses the meaning (M), structural (S), and visual (V) cues to help him or her read. They should also pay attention to fluency, intonation, and phrasing.
Quantitative Scoring: Quantitative scoring includes error, accuracy, and self-correction rates. The calculated rates, along with qualitative information and the child’s comprehension of the text, are used to determine a child’s reading level.
Error Rate: Divide the total number of words read by the total number of errors made (Error Analysis).
- Total words (TW) / total errors (E) = Error rate (ER)
- Example: 120 / 6 = 20
- The ratio is expressed as 1:20. This means that for each error made, the child read 20 words correctly.
Accuracy Rate: Accuracy rate is expressed as a percentage. Total words read – total errors (TW - E) / total words read (TW) x 100 = Accuracy rate. (AR)
- Example: (120 – 6) / 120 x 100 = Accuracy rate of 95%
- The accuracy rate determines whether the text read is at the child’s independent, instructional, or frustration level.
- Independent = 95% – 100%
- Instructional = 90% – 94%
- Frustration = 89%
Monitoring Academic Achievement
Curriculum Based Assessment
Vanderbilt has created wonderful resources to learn more about specific topics. This module gives an "Introduction to Monitoring Academic Achievement in the Classroom using Curriculum Based Assessment."
http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/gpm/chalcycle.htm
Response to Intervention (RTI)
Vanderbilt has created wonderful resources to learn more about specific topics. This module describes Response to Intervention (RTI) Assessments.
http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/rti02_assessment/chalcycle.htm
Types of Assessments
Screening assessment: A screening assessment is used at the beginning of a unit to determine a students current understanding of a subject.
Summative assessment: Summative assessments are used at the end of a unit to determine what learning a student gained over a unit or lesson.
Formative assessment: Formative assessments are used throughout units to determine student progress and to guide changes in lessons or any reteaching that may be needed. These may be formal or informal assessment to gauge learning.
Errors in Learning
Errorful learning: Errorful learning allows some errors in text that students are asked to correct. When used in reading, there may be a sentence containing specific errors that students are working on (ex. capitals, missing periods, etc.).
Errorless learning: Errorless learning involves teaching students without allowing any errors, students are corrected immediately. This strategy is typically used most often for students with a Learning Disability so they are not taught incorrect information. Information is repeated over and over to engage positive learning.
Students with Significant Support Needs (SSN)
Quality Indicators
"Students with significant support needs (SSN) are highly diverse learners with extensive needs in the areas of cognition and/or learning, communication, movement and social/emotional abilities. The individual may also have concurrent health, sensory, physical and/or behavioral disabilities." The website below has links to downloadable pdf files that describe quality indicators for assessing individuals with SSN.
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