- Assessment Chapter 3 introduces you to different means of assessing reading growth and problems.
- Formal assessment includes individual and group intelligence tests, reading achievement tests, and standardized diagnostic tests.
- Informal assessment includes informal reading inventories, miscue analysis, retrospective miscue analysis, running records, cloze test, maze test, anecdotal records, checklists, rubrics, personal interest inventories, attitude surveys, and self- assessment instruments.
Informal tests can give teachers information about which specific cueing system—syntax, semantic or graphophonic—the student uses when reading and what type of errors or miscues the student most often makes. These informal tests also can indicate if the reading material is at the student’s independent or easy reading level, or at his instructional level, or at his frustration level. Since informal assessments are beneficial for classroom teachers, detailed instructions on how to administer and score miscue analysis, running records, cloze tests, and maze tests are given. The No Child Left Behind Act has resulted in an emphasis on aligning assessment with standards. This chapter contains instructions on how to create checklists and rubrics, based on standards.
- Literacy Checklists Locate the CCSS elementary literacy standards on the Internet. Create a checklist for one grade in one area of literacy. You will share this with the class.
- Literacy Rubric Locate the CCSS elementary literacy standards on the Internet. Create a rubric for one grade in one area of literacy, using a different standard than the one used for the checklist.
- Attitude Survery Choose one of the attitude surveys and administer it to the student whom you are tutoring. Analyze the information gleaned from the survey. Write a brief Instructional Plan, explaining the approach you would use for the student.
- Ch. 3 PPT Attached Files:
- ch3PPT.pptx (1.945 MB)
- Ch. 3 Quiz
- Intervention Addendum-Secondary Attached Files:
- Intervention Addendum.pdf (593.087 KB)