EDRL 442 - Teaching Literacy 1 Assignment #2: Assessment Analysis due by midnight on Monday, September 30, 2013 50 points

possible At the beginning of the school year, Miss Keetow, a first grade teacher, used AIMSweb to administer four diagnostic assessments to her students: Letter Name Fluency, Letter Sound Fluency, Phoneme Segmentation Fluency, and Nonsense Word Fluency. Your assignment is to analyze Miss Keetows class results and arrange students into instruction al groups. The class should be divided into four groups. An important part of this assignment is your ability to justify your groups. As a teacher, you will group students for many reasons. You should be able to explain why and how you establish groups. For this assignment, submit the following through Canvas. (The length of each section of this assignment are suggestions. Please write enough to explain and justify your thinking.)

Cover Sheet Summary of the Assignment (1-2 sentences) Explanation of Assessments (1-2 pages) o Explain each assessment that was administered to Miss Keetows students. What does each assessment measure? What are the grade level norms for each assessment? How is each assessment administered - whole group, small group, individually? Factual Information: Test Results (1 2 pages) o State facts about Miss Keetows class. Interpretation of Data (1- 2 pages) o Which assessment did you use to determine your instructional groups? o How should the students in Miss Keetows class be grouped? o List the members of each group. o Justify your groups. Additional Information (1 paragraph) o What additional information would help you work effectively with Miss Keetows students? Reflection (1 2 paragraphs) o Describe your experience of analyzing data to create instructional groups.

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