2. e.g., Informal Reading Inventory 3. Read Aloud Oral Reading
Accuracy Oral Reading Fluency How? By comparing to the text 4. Read
Silently Reading Comprehension Word Knowledge How? Retelling, and
by 5. How? By comprehension questions, Both on-the-surface and
under-the-surface 6. Altheas Reading Excerpt from a tape of a
Reading Miscue Inventory By Yetta Goodman 7. 1.Record the student
reading aloud 2.Mark their miscues on the reading. 3.Ask for a
retelling of the story. 8. Levels of Assessment Where are
assessments done? For what purposes? 9. Classroom District State
National/International Instructional design Evaluate students Prep
for state tests Evaluate teachers, schools Evaluate districts
Qualify for federal aid, sanctions Evaluate state and/or regional
systems Bragging rights 10. Issues with Assessment Campbells Law:
The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social
decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption
pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the
social processes it is intended to monitor. 11. Issues with
Assessment Confounding Variables Student background School &
district effects Earlier teachers and schools Incomplete records
Linking students to teachers Using Achievement Tests as Outcomes
Effects of timing of tests Construction and scaling of tests
Inflation of scores Achievement tests as a proxy for teacher
effectiveness Measurement error 12. What does the National
Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tell us about reading?
Excerpts from the NAEP 2008 Trends in Academic Progress & The
Nations Report Card 2011 Jill A. Aguilar CUR 515 Seminar in
Curriculum Development In Reading and Language Arts Fall 2012 13.
WHAT CAN DATA (NOT) TELL US? Now that weve talked about DATA 14.
Task 1 Data display DUE 9/26/13, All DUE 10/3/13 20 points possible
Collect literacy assessment data Data are values of qualitative or
quantitative variables, belonging to a set of items. Data are
typically the results of measurements and can be visualized using
graphs or images. Create a data display (table or chart)
