Knowing Where Our Students Are:

The Role Collecting Evidence

Plays In Our Classrooms

Amy PregulmanStanley British Primary School

2014

Our Time TogetherGuiding Questions:

*How are we meeting each child’s needs in reading?

* How do we know we are meeting their needs?

Learning Objectives

* I can articulate the difference between Diagnostic, Formative and Summative Assessment

*I can articulate the purpose of Running Records and Dibels

*I can reflect and discuss assessment to inform instructional next steps

Data and Assessment

Gathering or collecting points of information over a period of time to inform instruction and learn about individual students, classrooms, schools etc. Formal and informal

Assessment Diagnostic: pre-assessment

Formative: on-going assessment for learning.

Summative: assessment of learning

Purpose of Assessment

To assist student learning

To identify students’ strengths and weaknesses

To assess and improve the effectiveness of curriculum programs

To assess and improve teaching

To communicate with and involve parents.

Diagnostic Assessment

Pre-assessment Designed to determine a students’ entry point

into learning objectives. What do they know now? Photo on driver’s license

How does where they are effect my instruction?

Essential for planning for student needs and differentiation to meaningfully support student learning

Builds off students’ readiness, interests, learning profile

Running Records

Collect data in an efficient manner

Consistent Based on Marie Clay’s work in Reading Recovery

Running Records

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Just Right Books Current Research: Independent Level Text

High Interest: self-selected 95% accuracy rate (levels A-K) 98% accuracy rate (levels L-Z) High level of fluency and comprehension Readers need lots and lots of JR texts to get to

be better readers Solve words easily Read fluently Comprehend easily

Formative Assessment Conferences

Note taking

Observations

Rubrics

Gives immediate feedback to student

Conferring Conferring is in addition to the mini-lessons

you are doing with the whole group. It will not be as productive or as useful if this is the only kind of teaching going in the class.

Using Assessment To Pull Small Groups

Reading level

Fluency

Comprehension strategies

Assessment: Now What Do We Know?

Diagnostic: pre-assessment Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment Dibels WIST WADE QRI DRA

Formative: on-going assessment for learning, helps identify teaching points, next steps

-rubrics, conferring, observations…

Summative: assessment of learning- tests (GRE, SAT…etc)

Reflection What is the purpose of running reading

assessments?

What is diagnostic, formative and summative assessment?

Questions?