Per the ongoing dialogue about tools for assessing both for identifying and for informing instruction response to intervention. I highly recommend that you spend some time reading Richard Allington¹s book on RTI or his articles.
And Peter Johnston¹s work. Both are highly respected literacy educators who see the possibilities of RTI but also the cautions or problems. Johnston¹s article, which you can find below, discusses the assessments in light of two very different perspectives on RTI. http://globalconversationsinliteracy.wordpress.com/ This is a website for a global conversation with Peter Johnston on October 30th at 7:00. I will be listening to that. But if you scroll down it provides links to some articles by Johnston. Of course, in particular, the two on RTI. They are actually roughly the same they are two versions of the same. It¹s a challenging read but one that I think we all need to digest before we make up our minds about approaches and/or assessments. I value anything by Johnston. Remember he is also the author of Choice Words which has been discussed on this list in the past. Everytime I hear discussion about which assessments/tests are best to use, I want to boom out.....remember that NO SINGLE ASSESSMENT from whatever theory or perspective or whatever......is sacred or right or ??? Even if it¹s what I might call more ³authentic² (for example the TCC assessments or DRA or my own miscue analyses), it¹s still just one assessment at one time. It¹s not ³objective² or true by itself. This is the same for runningrecords/miscue or whatever. What we need are multiple measures (and that doesn¹t mean just multiple administrations of the same test.) and we then need to look for patterns, not single numbers or conclusions. We need to look for patterns of meaning across time. The search for magic assessment may be useless. It may also be counter productive! I would be very interested in a follow up discussion on this list serve with any who read the Johnston article. Could be very fruitful I think. Sally _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive
