Informal Assessments

As a classroom teacher I personally do a lot of informal assessments. Perticularily with two students who have anexity disorder. They kinda freak out when they know they are taking a "test". The best way for me to see if they understand is through informal assessments. There are two types of assessment continum, reliability and validity assessments. Realiabilty is an estimate from 0 to 1. The book talked about all the variations of realiability like inter-rater, intra- rater, alternate form, internal consistency and test retest. It discusses how they are measured and there calulations. The stategies of validity are content, construct, concurrent, predictive, and treatment. One assessment that I was unfamiliar with was the Brigance inventory. This has mulitple sub test to show the child readiness for school and where they are at. This is to moniter their progress and develop goals. For the older students they use CIBS-R. This is used in grades 1st - 6th. This assessment measures alot of areas such as speech, spelling writing, readiness, ora reading and etc. Once all the information has been gathered it is ideal to have a RTI (Response to Intervention) model. This helps students see the progress using a slope on a graph. It can also be compared to the other students benchmark. An important acroynom I need to know is DIBELS ( Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills). There is honestly a lot of information towards the end of this chapter that I have never heard of. But, there are some good points.