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The Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading Overview

The Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading Overview. Agenda. Overview of Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading (K-12) K-2 Assessments 3-12 Assessments Connecting Assessment to Instruction PMRN Reports Resources Current Steps in 2008-2009 Implementation Study

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The Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading Overview

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  1. The Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading Overview

  2. Agenda • Overview of Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading (K-12) • K-2 Assessments • 3-12 Assessments • Connecting Assessment to Instruction • PMRN Reports • Resources • Current Steps in 2008-2009 • Implementation Study • Experimental Study • Looking Ahead to 2009-2010

  3. Agenda • K-12 Reading Plan District Reflection Tool • K-12 District Reading Plan Revisions

  4. What Will It Take to Accelerate Progress? • Strong assessment system • Content area literacy instruction (will not get the job done for some students) • Reading interventions (will never get the job done alone) • Differentiated intensity based on need • “Adequate” progress is different with a struggling reader

  5. Appropriate Use of Assessment Questions to ask Is it valid and reliable? Does it yield new information? Is it instructionally useful to teachers? Is it appropriate?

  6. Why Spend 30 Minutes Assessing Rather Than Teaching? 1. You can’t expect unless you inspect. • Diagnostic information is crucial to teaching. • Progress monitoring is crucial to learning.

  7. Why New Reading Assessments? Improved to include assessment of PreK, vocabulary, and comprehension Automatic reporting without data entry Identifies risk of reading difficulties

  8. HOW does using the Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading Support Students & Teachers? • Comprehensive assessment system • Phonemic Awareness • Phonics • Fluency • Vocabulary • Text Comprehension • Orthographic Skills (Spelling) * embedded in text comprehension

  9. Task Administration • All but one of the K-2 tasks (grade 2 spelling) are individually administered and scored in a web-based application or on paper. • Most 3-12 tasks are individually administered on the computer. The Informal Diagnostic Toolkit and grades 3-5 fluency probes will be individually administered by paper and pencil only.

  10. HOW is Using the Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading Beneficial? • Precise ability placement for Reading Comprehension tasks • K-2: Word List placement into Reading Comprehension passages • 3-12: Adaptive placement into Reading Comprehension passages • Precise Internet-based scoring options • K-2: Internet-based application may be used for task administration • 3-12: Screen and Targeted Diagnostic Inventory tasks on computer

  11. HOW is Using the Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading Beneficial? • Access to the PMRN system for recording student scores • K-2: Scores can be entered by hand or via internet-based scoring tool • 3-12: Scores are automatically sent to the PMRN via the computerized task administration • Teacher website for guiding instruction will be available • Ideas for grouping students by instructional need including program-specific professional development • Links to appropriate instructional routines, based upon student score results

  12. HOW is Using the Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading Beneficial? • Broad Screen tasks are directly related to Florida Sunshine State Standards and predict end of year performance on the Stanford Achievement Test (K-2) or FCAT (3-12) • Strong psychometric test properties form the basis of all of the assessments • All reading comprehension and oral reading fluency tasks use equating methods to put passages on the same scale so that fluency scores are meaningful.

  13. K-2 Web-Based Administration • Neither Palm nor handheld scoring will be available • May be administered on laptops, mini-laptops, NOT desktop computers • Tentative plan to provide mini-laptops for elementary schools in pilot, Reading First schools, and current Palm users (estimated one laptop for every two K-2 teachers)-Based on availability of funding and results of bidding process • District-wide implementation required to receive hardware

  14. Why Web-Based Versus Palms or Handhelds? • Confident that assessments can be administered in a reliable, valid, and efficient manner • Long range technology solution • Teachers more comfortable with laptop format • Broader availability and greater functionality (multifunction versus single) • Broader access to technical assistance and maintenance • No reprogramming required for updates

  15. The Role of DIBELS in 2009-10 • Schools can choose which assessments they want to use if they are not in Reading First. • DIBELS will not be supported by the PMRN. • DIBELS will not be a part of the FLKRS.

  16. Florida AssessmentsFrequency of Administration • Assessment Period 1 – Fall/September (Instructional Days 20 - 39) • Assessment Period 2 – Winter/February (Instructional Days 95 - 114) • Assessment Period 3 – Spring/April (Instructional Days 156 - 174)

  17. Florida Assessments: K - 2 Most assessments include practice items.

  18. Broad Screen Broad Diagnostic Inventory Targeted Diagnostic Inventory 3- 5 minutes 12-18 minutes 14-18 minutes How Long Will it Take to Administer the Grades K-2 Tasks?

  19. WHAT are the Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading? Broad Screen/Progress Monitoring Tool (K-2) • K-2: 3-5 minute set of tasks designed to indicate the probability of success on the SESAT (K) or SAT-10 (1, 2) • Kindergarten • Letter (Naming) Sounds: Assessment Periods 1 and 2 • Phonemic Awareness: Assessment Periods 1, 2, and 3 • Word Reading: Assessment Period 3 • Grades 1 & 2 • Word Reading

  20. What is the Probability of Success in Reading Score? • A score that tells the probability that a student will be on grade level at the end of the year. [at or above the 40%ile on the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT 10)] • Zones of Success Green Success Zone: the student has an 85% or greater chance of being at or above grade level Yellow Success Zone: the student has a 16-84% chance of being at or above grade level Red Success Zone: the student has 0-15% chance of being at or above grade level

  21. WHAT are the Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading? Broad Diagnostic Inventory (K-2) • Set of tasks designed to indicate other key areas of instructional need related to reading success • Listening Comprehension • Reading Comprehension • Vocabulary • Spelling (Grade 2 only)

  22. WHAT are the Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading? Targeted Diagnostic Inventory (K-2) • Set of tasks designed to more precisely indicate the areas of instructional need based upon Screen performance • Print Awareness • Phoneme Blending/Deletion • Letter Names • Letter Sound Knowledge • Letter Sound Correlations • Word Building • Multisyllabic Words

  23. Florida Assessments: K - 2 Most assessments include practice items.

  24. Broad Screen/Progress Monitoring Tasks

  25. Letter Naming and SoundsKindergarten Teacher Directions: I’m going to show you some letters of the alphabet. Tell me the name of the letter and the sound it makes. Ready?

  26. Phonemic AwarenessKindergarten Teacher Directions: 1. What would the word be if I say: • /l/ /ake/    (lake) •  /l/ /ock/   (lock) •  /sh/ /ip/   (ship) •  /s/ /o/     (so) •  /h/ /all/  (hall) • /c/ /oa/ /t (coat) For the first assessment, the majority of the items are onset and rime.

  27. Word ReadingKindergarten • Grade K Word Reading Task Card • Student reads word lists • Ten items

  28. Broad Screen Task Example

  29. First Grade Probability of Success Chart First Grade Probability of Success Chart

  30. Broad Diagnostic Inventory

  31. Florida AssessmentsBroad Diagnostic InventoryAssessment Periods 1 & 2 /Reading Comprehension • All receive Listening Comprehension/Reading Comprehension • Vocabulary is only for students scoring in yellow/red Success Zones

  32. Broad Diagnostic Task Examples

  33. K-2 Assessment Sample Internet-based Administration

  34. K-2 Assessment Sample Internet-based Administration • Teacher is guided through assessment • Easy to use • When synced, scores are sent directly to PMRN • Immediate display of raw score performance

  35. Vocabulary Teacher Directions: What is this?

  36. Vocabulary Teacher Directions: What do you call this outdoor activity?

  37. The Targeted Diagnostic Inventory • A set of tasks that cover the range of developmental reading skills at each grade • Students in the yellow and red zones of Success work through these tasks. • A criterion of 80% accuracy is required to move on to the next task.

  38. Targeted Diagnostic Inventory * Optional

  39. Targeted Diagnostic Task Example Phoneme Blending Administer items using the key phrase “What would the word be if I say /n/ /ew/ ?”

  40. Targeted Diagnostic Task Example • Word Building Tasks are given at each grade level. Grade 1 Vowels. Student moves letters to make new words like dig, dug, pug, pig, and pit.

  41. Targeted Diagnostic Task ExampleMultisyllabic Word Reading – Grade 2

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