Describe the tools/measures/approaches you plan to use to get a more detailed and accurate profile of students’ learning in relation to that challenge. Justify why you chose these approaches and tools.
TOOLS I PLAN TO USE IN PROFILING
- Student attitude towards reading- student survey. I found a good correlation between student attitude and student achievement in my inquiry about boys' writing last year , so I decided that it is really important to track how that plays out this year with my reading inquiry.
- eAsTTle reading and writing data
- This a school wide tool we use, and although I feel it's not very effective in testing students who are not achieving at their curriculum level, it is nevertheless a standardised guide.
- PAT reading data. PAT reading tests supports student-centred learning in literacy. Results provide accurate, relevant data and rich Aotearoa New Zealand curriculum analysis.It helps teachers to understand how, and if, students are making meaning from the texts they read. Students are presented with a range of genres, and once analysed, teachers gain insight into the sense-making clues students are, or are not using. PAT: Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary assesses the students’ ability to understand the words they read.
- PAT Vocabulary. This test is student-centred and relevant, giving an immediate picture of how students are achieving and progressing against the curriculum. It provides trustworthy evidence of achievement, useful for transition data of students’ learning pathways. Curriculum progressions are built into multi-choice questions supporting teachers’ moderation and analysis of curriculum levels and needs. All Students’ results end up on one scale no matter which test they sit. This allows for accurate school-wide and/or CoL-wide reporting for strategic goal setting and planning. CoL/multi-school analysis reporting for trends, patterns and shift using ethnic, gender and year level filters for targeted improvement in teaching and learning.
- PM Running Records. This is a tool teachers can get more useful on the spot knowledge of the learner's reading because it is done one - on- one with the teacher and student.The PM Benchmark Reading Assessment Resources are designed to explicitly assess students' instructional and independent reading levels using accurately levelled fiction and non-fiction texts.
