Comp 10: Assessment & Developing Literacy Flashcards
Informal Assessments
ungraded (formative) assessments that gather information from multiple sources to help teachers make decisions
EX: running record
3 Reading Proficiency Levels
- Independent: 95% words read correct
- Instructional: 90-94% words read correct
- Frustration: 89% or fewer words read correctly
What are informal reading inventories?
Assessment instruments designed to identify children’s proficiency levels
Miscue Analysis
A way of acquiring insight into children’s reading strategies by studying the mistakes they make when reading aloud.
Steps of Miscue Analysis
- Select reading material bit above reading level, about 500 words
- Provide coops to child
- Triple spaced copy to write comments
- Record reading
- Provide instruction to child and say can’t help them while reading
- Ask questions about story
- Let reader listen to recording and analyze
- Look for inconsistent miscues and pay special attention to first and final clusters/blends and digraphs
Formal Assessments
(administered formally in the classroom)
large-scale assessments at the school, district, state, national, and international levels; standardized tests
Miscue
a mistake in reading written words such as saying the wrong word, leaving out a word, repeating a word, inserting a word.
Formative Evaluation
Evaluation conducted before or during instruction to facilitate instructional planning and enhance students’ learning.
Summative Evaluation
Evaluation conducted after instruction to assess students’ final achievement.
Criterion-Referenced Tests (CRTs)
Teacher try to measure each student against uniform objectives or criteria (standards)
Norm-Referenced Tests (NRT)
Designed to compare the performance of groups of students
Percentile Score
indicates the percentage of people who score at or below the score one has obtained
Way of report NRT score?
Rank students from highest to lowest.
EX: at 80th percentile, scored well as or better than 79% of those who took test
What kind of scoring is used to evaluate the writing of students?
Holistic scoring
How are ELLs English progression monitored?
Four language domains: listening, speaking, reading, writing.
Federal legislation require all ELLs be assessed yearly in all four language areas to document progress towards English mastery.
TELPAS
(Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System) The RPTE and TOP assessments fall under this system. Students are rated annually on their proficiency of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Every student is supposed to make adequately yearly progress by improving a level each year from beginning- to advanced high.
TELPAS (k-1)
includes holistically rated listening, speaking, reading, and writing assessments based on ongoing classroom observations and student interactions
What standards are used when instruction to ELLs is delivered in English?
English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS)
English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS)
Implemented as a part of an ongoing content area support for ELLs
Required to add language proficiency objectives to daily lesson plans
Select appropriate ELPS objective that allow ELL develop academic proficiency to benefit from instruction and master state curriculum
Minimal Pairs
A pair of words that differ by only a single sound and are recognized by speakers as different words. i.e. bat/cat or hare/dare
Phonology
the study of speech sounds in language
