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Formal and Informal Assessment Comparison Chart
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Formal and Informal Assessment Comparison Chart
- Formal and informal methods of assessing reading development. (2011, Fall). Retrieved from http://www.uwgb.edu/education/files/FoundReadWebMaterial/8Assessment_PPT.pdf
Similarities
- Formal and Informal assessments can be used to form and modify instruction.
- Both forms measure reading levels, instructional needs, strengths and weaknesses, and comprehension.
- Both provide individualized results.
- Criterion-referenced and informal assessments can be used to determine mastery in specific skills.
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Formal Reading Assessment
Informal Reading Assessment
Formal Reading Assessment
- Most common forms of informal reading assessment are the informal reading inventory, running records, and performance assessments.
- Results are used to develop needs based curriculum strategies and lesson plans.
- Measure students' reading level in the same approach each time it is administered.
- Evaluates exactly what it claims to measure.
- Measurements present reliability and validity.
- Determines a number of needs and levels of an individual student.
- Measure students' reading level, instructional needs, strengths, comprehension, and decoding.
- Administered in different forms and are measured on an individual level.
- Norm-referenced tests:
- Compare student results against other students that have taken it.
- Allow educators to campare the results from one year to another.
- Criterion-referenced tests:
- Compare student results against a set performance standard or citerion.
- Determine whether students have learned a specific set of skills.
Differences
Formal Reading Assessment
Informal Reading Assessment
- Informal assessments:
- Administered more often and in more various ways.
- Results are more difficult to use and compare year by year reports.
- Formal assessments:
- Results are compared to either other student results or a standard or a criterion that is being met.
- Provide a wider view with more concrete results to comapre students, classes, grade levels, and school years.
- Two forms: Norm-referenced and Criterion-referenced tests
- Administered throughout the school year to detrmine the efficacy of the strategies.
- Strategies are implemented to improve reading skills.
- Can be used daily, weekly, and quarterly to accurately document reading levels, comprehension, and strengths.
- Readiness test results can be used to determine the emergent literacy skills of our young students.
- Diagnostic tests provide insight into where a student struggles with their reading skills.
- All of the tests results can assist teachers in the planning and delivery of instruction.
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