WGU C909- Literacy Assessments with Complete Solutions

Literacy Assessments - ANSWER-Assessment is an ongoing part of teaching. To be an effective literacy teacher, it is important for you to understand and be able to design appropriate assessments that contain clear evaluation criteria to identify students' knowledge and skills, diagnose areas of need, monitor student learning, and guide instructional decisions. What is the purpose of literacy assessment? - ANSWER-• identify skills that need review • monitor student progress • guide teacher instruction • demonstrate the effectiveness of instruction • provide teachers with information on how instruction can be improved • evaluate effectiveness of reading programs What is a formative assessment? - ANSWER-• Formative assessments are diagnostic in nature and used to identify both existing knowledge and gaps. Information from formative assessment is used to plan and guide instruction. • In this process, the teacher is not testing the student, but together the teachers and the students are exploring the learning and adjusting instruction to improve success. What is a summative assessment? - ANSWER-Summative assessments are used to evaluate students' learning after units of instruction have concluded. Higher stakes. Assists teachers in determining if instruction was successful or if changes need to be made. What is progress monitoring? - ANSWER-Used to track students' progress toward achieving certain performance goals over time. • first teacher identifies which students may benefit from progress monitoring • then set performance goals that can be measured and tracked over time • interventions are put into place to help student with skills • students are retested weekly or biweekly • results recorded and teacher looks for progress over time • new goals set or progress monitoring is discontinued What is purpose of progress monitoring? - ANSWER-In many schools, spurred on by Response to Intervention, teachers are being requested to collect progress monitoring data to determine whether a particular reading intervention is working. What is a maze test? - ANSWER-• A test where the passage has omitted words where the student has to choose the correct word to fill in. • In a MAZE test a student reads a passage, encounters a blank, and must fill in the blank with one of three-word choices the test provides. • The number of items successfully completed is his score. What is a running record and how is it used? - ANSWER-Tools used to record students behaviors and use of strategies during reading. Teachers provide students with books in their developmental reading levels and ask them to read the books aloud. Teachers record the words read correctly with check marks and note errors by recording the actual words in the texts and the words student substituted for them. Word repetitions, omissions, and self-corrections are also noted using special symbols. • Using a book that has not been previously read will give a more accurate measure of a child's ability to handle text at the assessed level. • Each error is analysed in a Running Record. At the point of error, the teacher asks "What source/s of information was the reader using when they made the error?" • Running Records should be taken on a passage of text with 100-150 words What do running records allow teacher to determine? - ANSWER-• Text difficulty. • Student placement in groups or materials. • The directional movement of the child in reading connected text. • The child's ability to coordinate oral language with the visual patterns in text. • The child's speed of responding, a measure of the child's ability to slow oral language enough to rectify an oral reading error through self-correction. • The type of cues the child uses to process printed language (meaning, syntax, or visual) about printed text with another type of information. • The child's self-correction behavior What are the two parts of running record? - ANSWER-There are two distinct parts to the assessment: the running record and a comprehension check. • use the symbols and marking conventions to record a child's reading behavior as he or she reads from the book. calculate the reading rate, error rate, and self-correction rate, and enter them in the boxes at the bottom of the page. • then tell have student you about the story in as much detail as she or he can remember. What are examples of MSV in running records? - ANSWER-Structural A reader meets an unknown word in a sentence: It ____ across the grass. The reader knows the word must be a verb because of their knowledge of language structure. This is referred to as structural or syntactic information. Meaning The reader then considers the preceding sentence in the text. John let his pet rabbit go. It ____ across the grass. Now the reader has further information. They draw on their prior knowledge about rabbits to help them predict how rabbits might move. They can predict that the verb is