Resources
Below are five resources that teachers can use to inform and support their assessment tecniques in the classroom.
Below are five resources that teachers can use to inform and support their assessment tecniques in the classroom.
The Reading Assessment Basics is a blog post from the Key to Literacy website, written by Joan Sedita who has 35 years of literacy education field experience. Within the blog post, Sedita shares explanations of key terms related to reading assessments, the different types of reading assessment and their purposes, how to use assessments to identify student needs, and provides additional resources. The basic information provided is crucial for teachers to know and understand in order to best assess and support their students' literacy development.
The website all about developing student's reading, not only outlines the key purposes for assessment as a tool in education, but also lists particular skills to be assessed in primary readers. For each skill there are several different screeners/assessments that will provide useful data in the particular literacy skill. Additional resources are also included at the bottom.
https://fpblog.fountasandpinnell.com/how-to-test-students-knowledge-of-vocabulary
This blog talks about a way to assess students vocabulary knowledge verbally and written. It states that students should be able to recognize frequently encountered words automatically and unconsciously. Teachers can create their own informal assessments to detect whether students can recognize and/or pronounce words.
This article is discussing evidence based assessment that play a huge role in teaching students how to read fluently. The article addresses many different forms of learning assessment and discusses the importances of all of them, as we as how they are importants for meeting the need of students through the creation of equitable learning environments.
This website covers five key elements that will help to make assessments more useful and productive in the classroom. The first is the importance of making sure the assessment is valid and reliable. The second is giving productive feedback to students during and after assessments. Third is the use of backward design when planning lessons. Fourth is how much your word matters as the teacher and how much your comments can be worth. And lastly the fifth is the need to motivate your students to be responsible and active learners.