Return-Path: <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g65HtiX17380; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:55:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:55:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <7644DFBB23121E4ABA63E327082920D8185D35@mail.llcc.cc.il.us> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Carolyn Werner <Carolyn.Werner@llcc.cc.il.us> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:136] RE: ABE Placement Testing X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Status: O Content-Length: 2819 Lines: 64 We use the Test of Adult Basic Education, published by CTB/McGraw-Hill. Illinois has been using the TABE for a number of years to place students and monitor progress. ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Carolyn Werner, Assistant Director Center for Adult Education & Literacy TEAL Lincoln Land Community College 5250 Shepherd Road Springfield, IL 62794 Phone: 217.786.2359 FAX: 217.786.2495 Email: carolyn.werner@llcc.cc.il.us Visit our web site: www.lincolnland.net/teal ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````` -----Original Message----- From: John Makay [mailto:makay00@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 12:38 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:135] ABE Placement Testing I have been lucky to be asked to participate on a teacher curriculum development project to produce a curriculum for our community college for NALS 1 to the NALS 3 levels. We assemble 10 GED and Pre-GED master teachers from our school and formed action groups. We started with the FL, MA and other state literacy standards and developed a set of goals and objectives for every literacy level. We are presently creating a mastery program for the Pre-GED level with a skills checklist and mastery tests for each sub-skill, but are stuck on how to do placement for the appropriate levels. At present, we place our student using the CASAS. Unfortunately, since we do not strictly use a CASAS based curriculum, this practice is more than likely questionable. We have lately decided to do supplemental testing using a more definitive reading test whereby student profiles can be discerned. We are hoping that this supplemental testing will give information on students' specific reading skills. We have been looking at the research done by Strucker using the Diagnostic Assessment of Reading (DAR) but have been concerned that this test has not been normed on an adult population. A test like the DAR would be good for the general literacy population, but for students with the lowest reading levels, we have decided that we will also need a phonological awareness test. Can anyone suggest what supplemental reading tests would be appropriate for an adult population and will help us develop the specific reading profiles recommend on the NIFL web-site (i.e. word analysis, word recognition, oral vocabulary, and reading comprehension) and a good test for phonological awareness? We are only interested in tests either normed on the adult population or or in tests not normed but have had a good track record on adult populations in other established ABE programs. John Makay Baltimore City Community College _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos:
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