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My Diagnostic Assessment & Evaluation Process
A comprehensive literacy diagnostic assessment and evaluation requires me to work between 6-10 hours with an individual. During this collaborative time, and in my subsequent report, I focus on obtaining answers to five specific questions (Kibby, 1995). These questions are:
- What are the individual’s current levels of achievement and performance in reading, writing, and spelling, and are these levels satisfactory?
- What reading, writing, and spelling skills and strategies are strengths for the individual, and which are limitations?
- Are there any factors that might be associated with the individual’s literacy performance?
- What instructional goals are appropriate for the individual at this time?
- What instructional methods, materials, and milieus best facilitate the individual’s learning?
In order to gain information to answer these questions, I use several formal and informal tests as well as many diagnostic teaching techniques, depending on the age of the individual and the purposes for the evaluation.
Standardized, norm-referenced test of reading achievement- Standardized, norm-referenced test of receptive vocabulary knowledge
- Standardized, norm-referenced test of expressive vocabulary knowledge
- Standardized, norm-referenced test of general intellectual ability
- If the client is an emergent reader, informal assessment of concepts of print, phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, and knowledge of the alphabetic system
- Informal assessment of sight vocabulary knowledge, graphophonic knowledge, and word recognition strategies used in isolation and in context.
- Informal assessment of spelling development
- Informal assessment of oral and silent reading fluency and comprehension
- Informal assessment of writing skills and strategies
- Informal assessment of test-taking strategies
Informal assessment of individual’s response to various instructional approaches and materials, in order to inform recommendations
My Fees
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