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Transcript of Assessment Driven Instruction
AKRC
FIRST NATION STUDENT SUCCESS PROGRAM
Assessment Driven Instruction for K to Grade 3
Objectives:
4. Who does the assessments?
5. Types of Assessments: screening, progress monitoring, diagnostics, outcome
6. What do we do with all that data?
1. What is Assessment Driven Instruction?2. What types of assessments does a quality reading
program require?3. What is the Lead Literacy Teacher’s role in
assessment?
What is assessment-driven instruction?
Assessment-driven instruction in reading is based on data from reliable and valid assessments that measure student’s progress in six essential reading components.
6 Components: Phonemic
awareness Phonics Fluency Vocabulary Comprehension Sight Words
Teachers view assessments as an important step in the instructional cycle
(Reading) Assessment is not grading—although assessment can help you determine and support the grades you give. Assessment is collecting and analyzing data to make a decision about how children are performing and growing.
Patricia Cunningham & Richard Allington (2007)
What types of Assessment does a quality reading program require?
Target Areas
Assessment for Kindergarten
Essential Reading Components
Concepts and skills to monitor as indicators of student progress toward outcomes
•Phonemic awareness•Vocabulary/oral language development during instruction•Sight Words (2nd semester of instruction
Targeted student outcomes for end of the year
•Letter naming•Letter-sound correspondence•Word reading•Sight Words
Assessments in quality program.... Cont’d...
Target Areas
Assessment- Grade 1 Essential Reading Components
Concepts and skills to monitor as indicators of student progress toward outcomes
•Phonemic awareness (during 1st semester of instruction)•Fluency (during 2nd semester of instruction•Vocabulary during Instruction•Comprehension (during second semester of instruction)•Sight Words
Targeted student outcomes for end of year
•Word reading•Fluency•Vocabulary•Comprehension•Sight Words
Assessments in quality program.... Cont’d...
Assessment- Grade 2 Essential Reading Components
Concepts and skills to monitor as indicators of student progress toward outcomes
•Fluency•Comprehension (during instruction)•Vocabulary (during instruction)•Sight Words
Targeted students outcomes for end of year
•Fluency•Comprehension•Vocabulary
Target Areas
Assessments in quality program.... Cont’d...
Assessment- Grade 3 Essential Reading Components
Concepts and skills to monitor as indicators of student progress toward outcomes
•Fluency•Vocabulary•Comprehension (during instruction)•Sight Words
Targeted student outcomes for end of year
•Fluency•Comprehension•Vocabulary•Sight words
Target Areas
What is the Teacher’s role in assessment?
Information from assessments can help teachers:
Identify students who are on grade-level or at benchmark
Assist students who have difficulty with some reading concepts or skills
Intensify interventions for students who have extreme reading activities
Group students for effective instruction Target specific reading concepts and skills that
students have not mastered Determine instructional intensity Monitor student’s progress; and Determine areas where teachers need extra support,
professional development and supplemental materials.
Information from assessments can help teachers:
Identify students who are on grade-level or at benchmark
Assist students who have difficulty with some reading concepts or skills
Intensify interventions for students who have extreme reading activities
Group students for effective instruction Target specific reading concepts and skills that
students have not mastered Determine instructional intensity Monitor student’s progress; and Determine areas where teachers need extra support,
professional development and supplemental materials.
Activity 1
Get within groups Discuss within your group how the LLT
can schedule for assessments (3 times/year) and implement intervention time with students at-risk.
List ideas/suggestions and present to whole group.
ACTIVITY- 15 min.
Coffee Break
Who administers the assessments?
Lead Literacy Teacher
Classroom TeacherGRADUAL RELEASE
Are different assessments given for different reasons?
Screening Assessments: Brigance
Kindergarten to Grade 1
Kindergarten Readiness Test
Standardized Assessments
What do teachers get from the screening process?
Learn that children’s letter knowledge and phonological awareness are good predictors of future reading progress...
Scarborough, 1998
For students who are beyond the initial stages of reading instruction, brief assessments of oral reading fluency are effective tools for screening for reading difficulties. Fluency is based on efficient word recognition and the processing of unknown words and is strongly related to reading comprehension.
Fuchs, Fuchs, Hosp & Jenkins, 2001
Screening outcomes...
If a child’s screening scores indicate a possible problem in reading performance, interventions should be implemented along with more frequent monitoring of the child’s academic progress...
Progress Monitoring Assessments
1. Classroom Assessments
2. Standardized Process
Advance Benchmark Strategic Intensive
What kind of Standardized assessments?
DRA, PM Benchmarks, Casi, Dibels, Informal Literacy Assessments
What does “academic grouping” look like?
Classrooms with: Advance Level Benchmark Level Strategic Level Intensive Level
Planning on-site Professional Development...
Assessment data, can provide meaningful guidance in the process of continuous improvement.
What are Diagnostic Assessments?
DAR – Diagnostic Assessment of Reading
GRADE – Group Reading Assessments and Diagnostic Evaluation
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test – III
SRI – Scholastic Reading Inventory
Woodcock Diagnostic Reading Battery
Texas Primary Reading Inventory
Fox in a Box Early Reading
Diagnostic Assessment
Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing
Outcome Assessments....
What do we do with all that data?
Assessment Analysis helps teachers pinpoint what is and what is not working so they can adjust instruction quickly and effectively.
How does Assessment facilitate student grouping?
1.Within-class regrouping;2.Same-grade regrouping;
and 3.Across grade regrouping
Differentiated instruction involves flexible group that involves a variety of grouping formats that change to reflect students’ knowledge, interests, and progress...
Flexible grouping allows students to be members of more then one group.
Some last things....
Parking Lot Questions Workshop Evaluations
Meegwetch!
Resources:
Promoting Assessment-Driven Reading Instruction Module, University of Virginia
http://www.google.ca/search?q=assessment+driven+instruction&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a