Assessment Of Reading in the Primary School

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Assessment Of Reading in the Primary School

• Christine.Merrell_at_cem.dur.ac.uk
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Beginning To Read

• Children need
• Global and cultural awareness
• Vocabulary and basic understanding of language
• Conventions of print
• Phonological awareness

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Beginning To Read Assessment

• ASPECTS www.aspectsproject.org
• Start and End of Pre-school
• PIPS On-Entry Baseline www.pipsproject.org
• Start and End of Reception

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Reading an interactive compensatory process
Comprehension

• Word recognition/decoding

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Then for fluent readers

• Good readers use
• Cognitive strategies
• Re-reading difficult parts
• Utilising background knowledge
• Adjusting reading speed

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Then for comprehension

• Metacognitive strategies
• Reader decides if s/he understands a passage then
  which cognitive strategies to use

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Traditional approach
Low
Average
High
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Individual approach
Low
Average
High
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InCAS

• Interactive Computerised Assessment System
• Assessment for ALL children
• Ages 5 11, plus special needs in secondary
• Modular Design
• Diagnostic

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InCAS Content

• Vocabulary
• Non-verbal ability
• Attitudes
• Word recognition
• Word decoding
• Text comprehension
• Spelling

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InCAS Administration

• ONE assessment per child each year
• Can be done at any time of year
• Assessment supplied on CD
• Data to and from CEM on secure website

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How InCAS Works

• Easy Difficult

Age
1st Question