Assessment Plan

Assessment Plan
 

Domain:  Language and Literacy

Domain Area:  Foundational Skills for Reading

Standard:  Print concepts

Learning Outcome:  The student will recognize and name letters such as those in his name, names of family and friends, and those seen in environmental print, 4/5 times.

Activities:

            1.      Obtain own name from word wall to go to the center you want to play in.
            2.      Play the block Alphabet game.

Observation-Based Assessment: 

          

1.       Observes the student as they go to the word wall and take off their own name.  Also observe if they help another student identify their name.  Give credit if they identify their own name.

2.      Put the alphabet blocks, like those in the picture, out on the table.  Select the students you want to observe and call them to the table.  You spell your name with the letters and then ask each one of them to spell theirs.  Observe to see if they complete the activity by spelling their name correctly and correctly naming the letters in their name.  Also observe to see if they help another child spell their name.  Another option is for the students to use the model of their name that they obtained off of the word wall.

Assessment Rubric:

*Level                                                     Objective                                                 Discussion Questions

Level 1	Recognizes and identifies  no letters	Ask open-ended question during observations and 1:1 conversations.  Ex:  Can you find/name the letters that make up your name?  Now can you put them together to spell your name?  Observe whether the student picked out their own name correctly from the word wall and record the data. Observe whether the student helped another student recognize his name and record data.  Tip:  Snap a picture of the child with the blocks to add to computerized observation.
Level 3	Recognizes and identifies 10 letters	Ask open-ended question during observations and 1:1 conversations.  Ex:  Can you find/name the letters that make up your name?  Now can you put them together to spell your name? Observe whether the student picked out their own name correctly from the word wall and record the data. Observe whether the student helped another student recognize his name and record data  Tip:  Snap a picture of the child with the blocks to add to computerized observation.
Level 5	Recognizes and identifies all letters and comments about letters in the environment.  Understands that letters form words.	Ask open-ended question during observations and 1:1 conversations.  Ex:  Can you find the letters that make up your name?  Now can you put them together to spell your name?  Can you identify/spell anyone else’s’ name? Can you tell me about the letters in your classroom?  What do they spell? Tip:  Snap a picture of the child with the blocks to add to computerized observation.

* Levels 2 and 4 would be the number of letters recognized that are >0 but <10 and >15 but <23.If you only use levels 1,3, and 5 over many observations, then you can average the score easier.

Testing Constraints:

            Some of the testing constraints may be that the activity to be assessed does not have reliability, or the child is not feeling well, the setting of the assessment is not conducive to learning (lighting, noise level, etc.), instruction are not understood.
            On the other hand, there are some very good aspects of Observation-based assessment.  Those can include:

1.       Learning is assessed in a natural environment.

2.      Skills are captured in real life and over time, therefore is it comprehensive.

3.      Children are compared to themselves, and focus on their strengths and interests.

4.      Parents can understand this assessment process.

5.      Impacts teaching and reteaching of skills.