Intentions To talk about English on line for 2012 To remind ourselves of the processes To look at the next steps after completing the assessment How one school analyses the data P – 2 To talk about our professional needs for 2012

Areas Assessed Oral language and listening comprehension Phonemic awareness and phonics Reading accuracy, comprehension and concepts of print Writing and spelling

Overview of TASKS Task 1 in all modules is the conversation. This task is intended as an ice-breaker to help the student feel comfortable in the one-on-one interview situation. As well as providing a context for answering all subsequent questions, it provides an opportunity to assess the student’s speaking skills. It is not essential to administer this task first, but it is preferable. Task 2 and Task 4 in Modules 1, 2 and 3 focus on different aspects of hearing sounds in words It is essential that tasks 2 and 4 tasks are separated by Task 3 (students may become confused between the instructions for each of these Task 3 is reading Task 5 Spelling Task 6 Listen and retell, comprehension Task 7 writing The writing task in each of the modules must be administered after the preceding task in which the students hear and retell a story and answer comprehension questions. The writing task can be administered to small groups or the whole class after students have completed the preceding task.

Content

M 1 M2 M3 M4

Recommended Module Administration and Module Selection Advice available at: ct.pdf

For some students a more appropriate module may be selected. This decision should made balancing the particular needs of the individual student, with consideration given to the range of difficulty of the tasks and questions in each module

2012 Training Guide. The Training System can be accessed from: nline/training.htm

2012 School User Guide

The English Online Interview 2012 assessment period The 2012 English Online Interview assessment period will occur from 2 February to 2 March The Interview will remain open until 9 March to enable schools to finalise assessments

Resources Texts Two texts are required for each module – a reading text and picture story book. All Victorian government primary schools have received copies of the texts in an English Online Interview Resource Kit.

Content

Conducting An Assessment select.pdf select.pdf 5. Click Start. If you have selected a non- recommended module for the student, for example if you select module 2 for a Prep student, you will be asked to confirm your selection Once your module selection has been accepted by the system, the screen defaults to Assessment View.

Current task

Finalising the Assessment

I have done the Interview Now what??

Two aspects 1. Generating reports – looking for patterns and trends 2. What the next learning needs are and suggestions for teaching for our students. – leads directly into the continuum

Reports

Care needs to be taken when interpreting data for students who demonstrate achievement at levels where there are relatively few score points. This applies to students who are working well above expected levels as well as students who are working well below expected levels.

VELS by Student Report

Comparing the groups

READING – RED WRITING – GREEN S&L - BLUE Group Progression Report

Interpreting “box and whisker” graphs ? ? ?? There are 30 students in this Year Level. Therefore: – 50% (or 15 students) are above the median. – 50% (or 15 students are below the median. – 50% (or 15 students) are inside the “box”. Half of these (7-8 students) are above the median and half (7-8 students) are below the median. – 10% (or 3 students) are at or below the 10 th percentile “whisker”. – 10% (or 3 students are at or above the 90 th percentile “whisker”. – 15% (or 4-5 students) are spread between the 25 th down to the 10 th percentile. – 15% (or 4-5 students) are spread between the 75 th up to the 90 th percentile. 15 students above median 15 students below median 7-8 spread above the median. 15 students inside the box. 7-8 bunched below the median. 3 students on or below the 10 th percentile. (Note, all we know is at least one student scored on the 10 th percentile.) 3 students on or above the 90 th percentile. (Note, all we know is at least one student scored on the 90 th percentile.) 4-5 students between the 75 th up to the 90 th percentile. 4-5 students between the 25 th down to the 10 th percentile.

Second Assessment

Next step Teaching

Finalised Assessment Report Phonemic Awareness

Correct – what to do Incorrect – what to do

What are we using to benchmark this year?

Running Record – Instructional level Moderated writing sample Words in 10 minutes On demand – reading adaptive