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Student assessment information should always be what drives a teacher’s instruction. Until taking the Literacy Assessment 637 class I had not been required to administer so many assessments. This class also required me to not only assess my students, but to interpret the data and use it to develop and create remediation activities. The purpose of assessing any student is to gain information about a child and identify strengths as well as deficit areas. This can include formal assessment such a DIBELS, “The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of procedures and measures for assessing the acquisition of early literacy skills from kindergarten through sixth grade.” (https://dibels.org/dibels.html), or informal assessment such as observations, checklists and anecdotal records. This class also helped me to understand how critical it is to …show more content…

LEP standard 637.1 and 637.2 states that: students will demonstrate an understanding of the processes and principle associated with conducting a diagnostic literacy evaluation and to develop assessment skills in using procedures for obtaining diagnostic data. The Quick Phonics Screen, and DIBLES are assessments that my school district relies on to accumulate assessment data. The Quick Phonics Screen is a quick measure of student’s phonics skills. DIBELS is a standardized test that measures reading fluency, accuracy, retell ability and word

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