Assessments
This exists to inform and improve teaching.
Assessment
What are two legislations have principles built into them?
Reading First and No Child Left Behind
When should students be assessed?
beginning of the school
This type of assessment is in a teacher's daily plan.
progress monitoring
How do you measure a student's skill development in fluency?
Curriculum-Based-Measurement (CBM)
What does assessment do for teachers?
Strategies for improvement
This is respect, trust, appreciation, and transparency.
Classroom Culture
What did Marie Clay say was an important thing for teachers to do?
Kid watching
Zone of Proximal development is what?
where you should teach students
What does Dibels measure?
phonological awareness, alphabetic principle, oral reading
Classroom assessments should be linked to what?
Core Standards
This is the beginning of the formative assessment.
Learning goals
Besides at the beginning of the year, when else should assessments be used?
While students are learning
What test can you use to measure vocabulary?
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
What are mandated reading tests called?
High stakes tests
Why do students need to give feedback and get feedback?
monitor their own learning
Why do teachers need to meet with ESL teachers?
ESL teacher needs to provide screening
What measures and demonstrates a student's performance?
Reliability and validity
What is an essential key to success in reading instruction?
analyzation of data and create a plan
This should be quick, reliable, and valid.
Screening assessments
What do diagnostic tests provide?
students strengths and needs for instruction