LETRS Unit 1: Session 8 | Verified | 2024 Update

LETRS Unit 1: Session 8 | Verified | 2024 Update 1. Outcome assessments: Outcome assessments assess the overall effective- ness of instruction given to a large student population—for example, all students within a state. These high-stakes, summative reading assessments are usually administered at the end of grade 3 or 4. Because they are often normed, they can show how an individual is doing relative to norms and help in comparing groups. 2. Screening measures: Screening measures help predict which students are at risk for reading failure and how they are likely to perform on outcome assessments by measuring their performance against established benchmarks. Screening mea- sures, such as Acadience® Reading K-6 or AIMSweb®, focus on foundational skills and are administered several times a year in the early grades. Because they are brief, low-cost measures that provide extremely useful information, they are highly efficient. 3. Diagnostic surveys: Diagnostic surveys inform teachers' work with at-risk readers. This category includes informal diagnostics teachers use to assess stu- dents' academic knowledge or skills in a particular area (e.g., a developmental spelling inventory or handwriting sample), as well as formal, specialized testing used to determine whether a student fits the criteria for a specific developmental disorder (e.g., an assessment to determine whether and where a child falls on the autism spectrum).