Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i6RHJA124137; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:19:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:19:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <499eb4495c3c.495c3c499eb4@texas.rr.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: stedman01@austin.rr.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1892] RE: FW: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:605] Low-Level X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003) Status: O Content-Length: 3926 Lines: 111 Texas uses the HOME Inventory as a parenting assessment. While definitely not a perfect instrument, it's not bad and there are precious few out there that are standardized and come with some training (in this case, videos can be ordered). Standardized instruments are a big issue in our state so the curriculum based instruments that come with some parenting packages were not considered. Deborah Deborah Stedman, Ph. D. Director, Texas State Family Literacy Resource Center Texas State University-San Marcos 601 University Drive San Marcos, TX 78666 Campus Phone: (512) 245-9757 Home Office Phone: (512) 444-9379 Campus Fax: (512) 245-9393 Home Fax: (512) 444-9379 stedman01@austin.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Sylvan Rainwater <sylvan@cccchs.org> Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 11:04 am Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1891] RE: FW: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:605] Low-Level assessments for Family Literacy > No, there is no instrument to assess a whole family, at least not > to my > knowledge. And of course a family is not a "whole" at all, but a > collectionof various people in various configurations. There are > certainly ways to > characterize a family -- single-parent, blended, dysfunctional, > etc. -- or > given axes of a family -- the parent-child, the spouse-spouse, the > sibling-sibling, the grandparents, extended family, etc. -- but > the nature > of the beast is huge variety. > > So, yes, we assess individual children (and these can be > strikingly similar > within a family and also strikingly different) and individual > parents in > areas of literacy. We have a few tools for evaluating parenting > skills, but > these are rudimentary, and generally nonstandard, as far as I know. > > The point of family literacy is to improve the literacy levels of both > parents and children, and to help them become not only lifelong > learners but > to support each other in that learning, to become part of a learning > community that just spreads the wealth and multiplies it > enormously. Some of > that you can measure, and a lot of it you can't. > > ------- > Sylvan Rainwater sylvan@cccchs.org > Program Manager Family Literacy > Clackamas Co. Children's Commission / Head Start > Oregon City, OR USA > > > -----Original Message----- > From: nifl-family@nifl.gov [nifl-family@nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Dianna > Baycich > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 11:01 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1890] FW: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:605] Low-Level > assessmentsfor Family Literacy > > Hi, > This was posted on the assessment discussion list. What comments > do you > have? Does anyone know of an instrument that assesses the whole > family? In > Ohio we use the Parent Education Profile to assess the parents' > progress.Dianna B. > OLRC > > -----Original Message----- > From: nifl-assessment@nifl.gov [nifl-assessment@nifl.gov] On > Behalf Of Marie Cora > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 12:21 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:605] Low-Level assessments for Family > Literacy > Hi everyone, > > I wanted to throw this question out to you as well - what about > assessments in the Family Literacy area? > > I was chatting with a colleague this past weekend about this question, > and of course I wanted to find out from the collective wisdom what you > might do or use in terms of assessing family literacy. > > This seems, on the face of it, to be an even more complex issue (you > need to assess on quite a variety of dimensions), and there seems > to be > even fewer resources in this regard. But! I'm not a Fam Lit > worker, so > I'm unsure. > > Can anyone shed some light on this for us? > > Thanks! > > marie cora > Moderator, NIFL Assessment Discussion List, and > Coordinator/Developer LINCS Assessment Special Collection at > http://literacy.kent.edu/Midwest/assessment/ > > > marie.cora@hotspurpartners.com > > > >
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