Assessment
There are four different types of assessments. Understanding how to select and use the various types of assessments is crucial to identify students at risk and provide prescriptive instruction.
Researchers have worked over several decades to establish a science of prediction and to outline what to do with students who are at risk of reading failure.
Torgesen, 2004
Outcome Assessments
-High Stakes,
End-of-Year
-Accountability tests.
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Outcome Assessments
Screening Measures
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see a list of
reliable, valid screeners
for locating students at risk.
Diagnostic Surveys
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more information about
Diagnostic Surveys
Progress Monitoring
Rachel Dwaine-MA.Ed. Literacy 