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Literacy Assessments

This guide covers the need and purpose of assessments, types of assessments, validity and reliability, testing items, and a list of reading assessments. Learn how assessments help identify at-risk students, guide instruction, and monitor progress effectively.

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Literacy Assessments

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  1. Literacy Assessments Pamela Chapin

  2. Items to be Covered • Introductions • Need and purpose of assessments • Assessment types • Validity and Reliability • Testing items • List of reading assessments • Overview of assessments • Conclusion • Sources • Discussion

  3. Need and Purpose of Assessments • To identify “at risk” students at the beginning of the school year • To monitor students’ progress during the year • To guide teacher instruction • To collect information about students • To assess whether instruction is working • To provide teachers with information on how instruction can be improved

  4. Formative Assessments: During instructional process Screening assessments Diagnostic assessments Progress monitoring assessments Summative Assessments: End of instruction evaluation Used to assign students’ grades Document what the student knows or doesn’t know Assessment Types

  5. Validity-the extent to which a test actually measures the skill or ability in question Content description validity Criterion prediction validity Construct identification validity Reliability-degree to which a test provides a dependable, consistent measurement of some trait or ability Inter-rater Test-retest Internal consistency Alternate forms Validity and Reliability

  6. Testing Items • Comprehension • Vocabulary • Fluency • Phonemic and Phonological Awareness • Phonics • Language development • Concepts of print • Oral reading rate • Letter knowledge

  7. List of Reading Assessments • Assessment of Literacy and Language (ALL) • Bader Reading and Language Inventory (BRLI) • Basic Reading Inventory (BRI) • Comprehensive Reading Inventory (CRI) • Development Reading Assessment (DRA) • Diagnostic Assessments of Reading (DAR) • Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) • Early Reading Diagnostic Assessment (ERDA) • Expressive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test • Gates MacGinitie Reading Tests

  8. Reading Assessments, cont. • Gray Oral Reading Tests (GORT) • Group Reading Assessment and Diagnostic Evaluation (GRADE) • Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement • Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) • Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS) • Process Assessment of the Learner (PAL) • Qualitative Reading Inventory (QRI) • Rigby ELL Assessment Kit Elementary • Rigby Reads • Stanford 10 Full Battery

  9. Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (K-3) Screening and Progress Monitoring assessment types Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Phonics Comprehension Oral Reading Rate Development Reading Assessment (K-3) Diagnostic and Progress Monitoring assessment types Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Phonics Comprehension Vocabulary Fluency Language Development Concepts of Print Oral Reading Rate Overview of Assessments

  10. Comprehensive Reading Inventory (K-3) Diagnostic assessment type Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Phonics Comprehension Vocabulary Fluency Concepts of Print Oral Reading Rate Overview of Assessments, cont. • Diagnostic Assessments of Reading (K-3) • Diagnostic assessment type • Phonemic and Phonological Awareness • Phonics • Comprehension • Vocabulary • Fluency • Concepts of Print • Oral Reading Rate

  11. Early Reading Diagnostic Assessment (K-3) Screening, Diagnostic, and Progress Monitoring assessment types Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Phonics Comprehension Vocabulary Fluency Concepts of Print Oral Reading Rate Rigby Reads (K-3) Diagnostic and Progress Monitoring assessment types Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Phonics Comprehension Vocabulary Fluency Concepts of Print Oral Reading Rate Overview of Assessments, cont.

  12. Conclusion • Critical part of instructional cycle • Provides information before, during, and after instruction • Should be part of reading program • Used to gather information about what students are doing as they read “A child mis-educated is a child lost.” --John F. Kennedy

  13. Sources Kansas guide to early reading assessments. (2007, May 31). Kansas state department of education. Retrieved January 25, 2009, from http://www.ksde.org The Access Center. (2005). Early reading assessment: A guiding tool for      instruction. In Reading rockets [article]. Retrieved January 25, 2009, from http://readingrockets.org Torgesen, J. K. (2006). A comprehensive K-3 reading assessment plan: Guidance for school leaders. In Florida center for reading research. Retrieved January 25, 2009, from http://www.fcrr.org Wren, S. (2004). Descriptions of early reading assessments. In The southwest educational development laboratory. Retrieved January 25, 2009, from http://www.sedl.org

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