Assessments for Reading Chart

Assessments for Reading Chart
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Assessments for Reading Chart
General Screening Assessments

Definition:
General screening assessments refer to all general information collected and recorded about students at each school level. It relates to current information about student's health, performance, and other available data
Describe the purpose:
Teachers identify areas of each student's weaknesses and address them accordingly, and may involve parents in addressing them if necessary.
Describe to whom is it administered:
General screening assessment is administered to students regardless of their grades.
Describe when is it given:
It is given at the beginning of the school year to determine the students who could be at risk of reading
Grade level:
From grade 1 to 5
100-150 word explanation of how this assessment is beneficial and what challenges you might encounter when implementing:
General screening assessment is a significant process of identifying students who might have difficulties reading and need more instructions or need a different set of instructions (Early Literacy: Tools 2017). Therefore, it helps identify potentially poor-performing students.
One challenge associated with its implementation is that general screening assessment is highly predictive of interest. Most students fear mathematics hence are not interested in it (Jenkins & Johnson, 2018). Secondly, it might be challenging to sort students at risk from those not at any risk. Also, teachers might not know what the screening is measuring; hence, they might appear irrelevant (Student Assistance Team: General Screening and Student Intervention Guideline,s 2020).

Links to three website examples:
/teaching/reading101-course/modules/assessment/assessment-depth
https://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/earlyliteracy/tools.html
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Diagnostic Testing Assessments

Definition:
It is a set of written short answer or multiple-choice questions that assess the current student's current base of knowledge about the topics to be learned in the course
Describe the purpose:
Diagnostic testing assessments gather data that help in shaping specific learning paths for students.
Describe to whom is it administered:
It is administered to all students.
Describe when is it given:
It is administered before a unit, course, lesson, or grade level
Grade level:
Grades 2 - 6
100-150 word explanation of how this assessment is beneficial and what challenges you might encounter when implementing:
Diagnostic testing assessment has several benefits for students. The first is that it helps to assess the learning progress during a lesson. The assessment results help the teachers adjust their teaching activities to fit student needs (Diagnostic Assessments: Assess Prior Knowledge). This type of assessment also narrows down learning to relevant content because the instructors get to know the weaknesses of their students. However, it can be challenging to administer the assessment to schools where students in a class are many and divided into arms or wings. Also, some curriculum does not include ...