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We are trying to come up with a better school wide assessment for reading. Does anyone use or know of a RELIABLE, EASY to administer reading assessment that will tell us what information we need to work on to increase ouPSSA scores.
have each classroom teacher do a "real" running record...and use the information from it to plan instruction...then, to satisfy the others...use some sort of standard test to make a base line and then show the growth....

I am so sorry "real" teaching is no longer valued and the modern day test driven instruction is taking over.... :-(

On 8/09/11, Mary wrote: > We are trying to come up wi...See More
Dec 11, 2011
Kinder Gal I, too, am sorry that "real" teaching is now replaced by test driven scores. It makes me sad that the time I must use to test kids instead of teach kids. We use AIMS-web and DIBELS Next to test our kids weekly. Time consuming with the youngest grades, not near so with older grades.

On 12/11/11, have each classroom teacher do a "real" runni...See More
Dec 27, 2011


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