Assessment of and for Learning
Summary:
Assessment drives instruction. Learn how to identify assessments, administer them and most importantly, how to make the data meaningful. At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
• Assess students’ fluency rate and determine reasonable expectations for reading fluency at various stages of reading development, using research-based guidelines and appropriate state and local standards and benchmarks.
• Select materials and / or create lessons that address students’ skill levels.
• Administer screenings and progress monitoring assessments.
• Explain why individual students are or are not at risk in reading based on their performance on the screening assessments.
• Display progress-monitoring data in graphs that are understandable to students and parents.
• Administer educational diagnostic assessments using standardized procedures.
• Write reports that clearly and accurately summarize a student’ s current skills in important component areas of reading and reading comprehension.
• Write appropriate, specific recommendations for instruction and educational programming based on assessment data.
Standards:
• Understand the role of fluency in word recognition, oral reading, silent reading, comprehension of written discourse, and motivation to read.( C-3:1)
• Identify students’ levels of spelling development and orthographic knowledge.( C-6:2S)
• Understand the differences among screening, diagnostic, outcome, and progressmonitoring assessments.( D: 1)
• Understand basic principles of test construction, including reliability, validity, and norm referencing, and know the most well validated screening tests designed to identify students at risk for reading difficulties.( D: 2)
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