Return-Path: <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j3CAZUG13360; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 06:35:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 06:35:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <000001c53f4c$53170890$0202a8c0@frodo> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Marie Cora" <marie.cora@hotspurpartners.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:1045] Reply from Rosalind X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 3679 Lines: 103 Good morning everyone. Rosalind is having some technical difficulties, which we will correct. In the meantime, I'm forwarding this to you. Thanks, marie ------------ Forwarded Message ------------ Date: Monday, April 11, 2005 3:44 PM -0400 From: rosalind davidson <davidsro@gse.harvard.edu> To: nifl-assessment@nifl.gov Subject: Re: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:1044] RE: Reading series begins today! Hello Howard, Project Riral. Yes, your learners are part of the ARCS data set. We appreciate your very helpful cooperation in carrying out the ARCS work in Rhode Island. About your issues - 1. What do you use for intake placement now? TABE, Casas ...? anything else? What do they tell you that determines placement decisions? Why do you think you need more information? 2. The most thorough assessment of English reading would be with a diagnostic test that gives information on many important reading sub-skills: word recognition, word attack, oral reading accuracy, oral reading fluency, vocabulary, and silent reading comprehension. The test we used for the ARCS is the Diagnostic Assessments of Reading (DAR). Another is the Quick Adult Reading Inventory, a shorter test of the same sub-skills (minus reading comprehension), but you have from the TABE or other mandated test you give. - See the Test Bank on the ARCS website. 2. In addition, a listening vocabulary test such as the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test would tell you the level of word meanings they bring to understanding text. For native English speakers,it is also a measure of cognitive power. For native Spanish speakers in either the ESOL or ABE program, there is the TVIP, a similar test that assesses Spanish vocabulary. 3.At the least, you need a graded test of word recognition and a vocabulary assessment in addition to a silent reading comprehension test. 4. Add a questionnaire that will tell you about past education, health, and the learner's reason for taking classes (goals). There is a downloadable questionnaire on the website As far as aligning curriculum with standards-based education - achieving fluent oral reading and silent comprehension is our main goal. In general, I don't have a problem with SBE as long as it can serve that goal. Is there a particular set of standards you are working with in your workshops? Rosalind, NCSALL --On Monday, April 11, 2005 11:45 AM -0400 Howard Dooley <hdooley@riral.org> wrote: > Excellent! > > I have been thinking about this -- again -- recently. Project RIRAL > (which participated in the NCSALL study) is re-organizing its > orientation to classes and placement assessments. My questions: > 1 -- Should we use the ARCS recommendations to develop a placement > assessment into our ABE reading and Advanced ESL classes? If so, any > suggestions and / or helpful hints? > 2 -- RIRAL's instructors are participating in a series of workshops to > understand standards-based education and to align curriculum and > instruction with that approach to learning. How does the ARCS see > itself supporting / fitting into standards-based instruction? > > Howard, Project RIRAL > > > > > Rosalind Davidson Research Associate/Lecturer on Education National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy Harvard University Graduate School of Education Nichols House - Appian Way Cambridge, MA 02138 tel:(617) 496-8952 fax: (617) 495-4811 ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- Rosalind Davidson Research Associate/Lecturer on Education National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy Harvard University Graduate School of Education Nichols House - Appian Way Cambridge, MA 02138 tel:(617) 496-8952 fax: (617) 495-4811
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