Standardized Test PresentationAshley Riviere

EDI 419March 28th, 2011

Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests—Revised (WRMT—R)0What does this

test tell us about students?

0What is the most important part in scoring a student’s WRMT—R test?

Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests—Revised (WRMT-R)0 “It is a comprehensive

battery of tests measuring several important aspects of reading ability,” (1)

0Tests grades K-College Senior & adults to 75 and older.

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0Six tests: 1. Word Identification2. Word Attack3. Word Comprehension: Antonyms4. Word Comprehension: Synonyms5. Word Comprehension: Analogies6. Passage Comprehension

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Featured Test: Passage Comprehension“(Used to measure) the subject’s ability to study a short passage—usually two to three sentences long—and to identify a key word from missing from a passage,” (8).

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Passage Comprehension Instructional Implications:

“The processes involved in this task (a modified cloze procedure) require simultaneous understanding of both semantic and syntactic clues in the written text,” (67).

“The reader must focus on the author’s representation of ideas and still understand the relationship among that language features,” (67).

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Passage Comprehension Instructional Implications:

“Below average performance on the Passage Comprehension test may indicate that the subject either makes poor use of passage context clues or is unable to decode key words accurately from a passage,” (67).

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Directions for Teacher to say to Student:

“Point to the first item and say: Read this to yourself and tell me a good word to go in the blank space. Point to the blank.

After the subject responds to the first item, say: Go ahead with the others.

If the subject fails to respond within approximately 30 seconds after reading an entire passage, encourage a response. If the subject still fails to respond, point to the next item and say: Try this one,”

-(Form H: Passage Comprehension 19-21)

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Test Student:03rd Grade0Below average

reading abilities according to teacher

0Parent intervention

0Extra help

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WRMT—R Passage Comprehension 19-21

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WRMT—R Passage Comprehension 53-56

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Scoring:0 “Each test item administered is

scored by placing a 1 (one) or 0 (zero) next to that item in the space labeled “Score” on the response pages of the test record,” (27). 0 1=Correct response0 0=Incorrect response or failure to

respond0 If the student changes their

response, score according to the last/final response given.

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Results:0Olivia scored 45/68 (W

Score-512) 0Subtract R Score (389)

from W Score0DIFF = 1230Relative Performance

Index (RPI) = 99/900Percentile Rank (PR) = 99

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0What does this mean?According to the test results, Olivia reads at a 7th

grade level.She is in the 99th percentile for her age and grade

level.

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0What are some factors that may have influenced Olivia’s test?

0Why might her teacher think that her reading skills are below grade level?

0What types of intervention and help could Olivia receive outside or inside of the classroom to improve her performance at school?

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0Would you use this test?

0What in particular do you like about this test?

0Was the scoring easy or difficult?

0What grade level might this be most effective for based on today’s lesson?

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0What does this test tell us about students?

0What is the most important part in scoring a student’s WRMT—R test?

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