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Assessing Reading in the Disciplines

Assessing Reading in the Disciplines. What grade level would you teach this text?.

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Assessing Reading in the Disciplines

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  1. Assessing Reading in the Disciplines

  2. What grade level would you teach this text? • “Well then,” said Parmenides, if there is a one, of course the one will not be many. Consequently, it cannot have any parts or be a whole. For a part is a part of a whole, and a whole means that from which no part is missing; so whether you speak of it as a whole or as having parts, in either case the one would consist of parts and in that way be many and not one. But it is to be one and not many. Therefore, if the one is to be one, it will not be a whole nor have parts. • From Plato’s Parmenides

  3. What Makes a Text Hard or Easy to Read? • A text’s readability can be “measured” using readability formulas (See appendix B) • Not totally accurate… Why? • Lexile used in Oregon schools • Text complexity (CCSS) • Lexile PP?

  4. CCSS Text Complexity • 1. Quantative (Lexile) • 2. Qualitative • A. Levels of meaning (literary texts) or purpose(informational texts) • [e.g., satire has more than one level of meaning) • B. Structure • [e.g., simple chronology or contains foreshadowing etc. • C. Language Conventionality and Clarity • D. Knowledge Demands

  5. Cloze testing • Begin with passage of 300 words or more. Choose a passage that is largely typical of the material in the text, and relatively free of things like formulas or equations. • Choose any word as the first to be deleted but leave a sentence or two intact at the beginning. • Mark every fifth word until 50 have been marked. • Replace the words with blanks of equal length

  6. Scoring • Correct answers should be exact words. Synonyms increases subjectivity. • Scoring • Independent level 60 percent or higher • Instructional level 40-59 percent • Frustration level 39 percent or lower

  7. MAZE test • AIMS Web, a testing company uses • Have standardized the procedures • Directions: Prepare passage similar to Coze • Instead of blanks, provide three choices using similar words

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