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 i6RIkI128323; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:46:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:46:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4106A207.5010201@georgetown.edu> 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: Albert Wat <ayw@georgetown.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1894] 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 4374 Lines: 134 Do you have contact info for this HOME Inventory? Thanks! stedman01@austin.rr.com wrote: >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 >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- Albert Wat, Program Coordinator DC Schools Project Office of Volunteer & Public Service - Center for Social Justice Georgetown University, Poulton Hall 1421 37th St., NW, 1st Floor Washington, DC 20057 Tel: (202)687-8868 Fax: (202)687-8980 https://data.georgetown.edu/outreach/csj/service/programs/dcsp/
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