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Chapter Six

Assessing Reading Performance

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In this chapter, you will discover and be able to:

• Rationalize the importance of utilizing multiple assessment indicators.

• Compare the perspectives that support the use of high-stakes testing

to the use of authentic assessments.

• Justify the purposes of utilizing formal testing for literacy assessment.

• Explain the commonalities between various informal assessments.

• Discuss the essential components of portfolio assessment as well as

how to manage the portfolio process.

• Reflect upon how literacy assessment has changed over the years

and will continue to do so.

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Key Terms• Anecdotal notes

• Authentic assessment

• Checklist

• Criterion-referenced tests

• Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA)

• Diagnostic test

• Digital portfolio

• Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)

• Formative assessment

• High-stakes testing

• Informal assessment

• Informal reading inventory (IRI)

• Interviewing

• Kidwatching

• Miscue analysis

• Norms

• Portfolio

• Reliability

• Retelling

• Running record

• Self-assessment

• Standardized reading test

• Survey test

• Validity

• Words Correct per Minute (WCPM)

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Toward a Corroborative Framework for Decision Making

•Use multiple indicators of student performance for

assessment.

•Multiple indicators build a corroborative framework that

strengthens decision-making.

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Trends in Assessment

• High-Stakes Testing

• Authentic Assessment

• Formal Assessment

• Standardized Tests

o Types of tests

o Types of Scores

o Uses of Standardized tests

• Criterion-Referenced Tests

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Bell Curve Showing Standard Deviation

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Informal Assessment

• Informal Reading Inventories

• Analyzing Oral Reading Miscues

• Running Records

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Miscue Analysis

Miscues are generally significant in the following instances:

When the meaning of the sentence or passage is significantly changed or altered and the student does not correct the miscue

When a non-word is used in place of the word in the passage

When only a partial word is substituted for the word or phrase in the passage

When a word is pronounced for the student

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Types of Oral Reading Errors

Omission:

the reader omits a unit of written language

Substitution:

a real word is substituted for the word in the text

Mispronunciation:

the word is pronounced incorrectly

Insertion:

a word is inserted in the passage

Repetition:

a word or phrase is repeated

Reversal:

the order of a word in the text is transposed

Pronunciation:

a word is pronounced for the reader

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Determining Reading Levels

Independent level: The level at which the student reads fluently with excellent comprehension.

Instructional level: The level at which the student can make progress in reading with instructional guidance.

Frustration level: The level at which the student is unable to pronounce many of the words or is unable to comprehend the material satisfactorily.

Listening capacity level: The level at which the student can understand material that is read aloud.

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A Sample Coded Running Record

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Reading Levels Determined by Running Records

Reading Level Percentage Correct

Independent 95 to 100 percent

Instructional 90 to 94 percent

Frustration below 90 percent

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Portfolio Assessment

• Essential Elements of Portfolios

• Implementing Portfolios in the Classroom

• Kidwatching While Teaching

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