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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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