EDR 345 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Creative Writing, Free Recall, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
12 Dec 2016
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Chapter 6 informal literacy assessments: formal assessments . Multiple intelligences assessment menu, figure 6. 1, p 110. Formative assessment: information collected in a variety of ways to be used as feedback for modifying teaching. Commonly used formative assessment tools: text related tests- ancillary materials, used to assess student learning. End of unit tests- tests in the teacher"s manual or student workbooks of many basal reading systems: informal reading inventories (iri) To help the teacher observe a student"s strategic reading behaviors with materials at various reading levels. To aid the teacher in choosing appropriate texts for every student. To assist the teacher in estimating three different reading levels: independent, instructional and frustrating reading level. Betts (1946) established criteria for to distinguish the three levels of word recognition and comprehension: Independent level - 99% word recognition, 90% comprehension. Frustration level 90% or less word recognition, 50% or less comprehension comprehension. These are non-standardized assessment tools and can be used flexibly.
