Literacy Assessments Pamela Chapin

Items to be Covered Introductions Need and purpose of assessments Assessment types Validity and Reliability Testing items List of reading assessments Overview of assessments Conclusion Sources Discussion

Need and Purpose of Assessments To identify “at risk” students at the beginning of the school year To monitor students’ progress during the year To guide teacher instruction To collect information about students To assess whether instruction is working To provide teachers with information on how instruction can be improved

Assessment Types Formative Assessments: During instructional process Screening assessments Diagnostic assessments Progress monitoring assessments Summative Assessments: End of instruction evaluation Used to assign students’ grades Document what the student knows or doesn’t know

Validity and Reliability Validity-the extent to which a test actually measures the skill or ability in question Content description validity Criterion prediction validity Construct identification validity Reliability-degree to which a test provides a dependable, consistent measurement of some trait or ability Inter-rater Test-retest Internal consistency Alternate forms

Testing Items Comprehension Vocabulary Fluency Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Phonics Language development Concepts of print Oral reading rate Letter knowledge

List of Reading Assessments Assessment of Literacy and Language (ALL) Bader Reading and Language Inventory (BRLI) Basic Reading Inventory (BRI) Comprehensive Reading Inventory (CRI) Development Reading Assessment (DRA) Diagnostic Assessments of Reading (DAR) Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) Early Reading Diagnostic Assessment (ERDA) Expressive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test Gates MacGinitie Reading Tests

Reading Assessments, cont. Gray Oral Reading Tests (GORT) Group Reading Assessment and Diagnostic Evaluation (GRADE) Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS) Process Assessment of the Learner (PAL) Qualitative Reading Inventory (QRI) Rigby ELL Assessment Kit Elementary Rigby Reads Stanford 10 Full Battery

Overview of Assessments Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (K-3) Screening and Progress Monitoring assessment types Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Phonics Comprehension Oral Reading Rate Development Reading Assessment (K-3) Diagnostic and Progress Monitoring assessment types Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Phonics Comprehension Vocabulary Fluency Language Development Concepts of Print Oral Reading Rate

Overview of Assessments, cont. Comprehensive Reading Inventory (K-3) Diagnostic assessment type Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Phonics Comprehension Vocabulary Fluency Concepts of Print Oral Reading Rate Diagnostic Assessments of Reading (K-3) Diagnostic assessment type Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Phonics Comprehension Vocabulary Fluency Concepts of Print Oral Reading Rate

Overview of Assessments, cont. Early Reading Diagnostic Assessment (K-3) Screening, Diagnostic, and Progress Monitoring assessment types Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Phonics Comprehension Vocabulary Fluency Concepts of Print Oral Reading Rate Rigby Reads (K-3) Diagnostic and Progress Monitoring assessment types Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Phonics Comprehension Vocabulary Fluency Concepts of Print Oral Reading Rate

Conclusion Critical part of instructional cycle Provides information before, during, and after instruction Should be part of reading program Used to gather information about what students are doing as they read “A child mis-educated is a child lost.” --John F. Kennedy

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