[NIFL-ESL:11186] Re: Measuring outcomes

From: Jennifer Lynn Harper (au2825@wayne.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 27 2005 - 14:51:12 EDT


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Thanks Don for that insight.  I will check out the website 
you posted.  This is very fascinating stuff!
Thanks again,
Jennifer

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:34:02 -0400 (EDT)
>From: DonMcCabe@aol.com  
>Subject: [NIFL-ESL:11184] Re: Measuring outcomes in literacy 
programs  
>To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov>
>
>In a message dated 10/25/2005 2:38:43 P.M.  Eastern Standard 
Time, 
>au2825@wayne.edu writes:
>"...We will not be setting  
>up an actual literacy service, but we need to add certain 
>components to  our written proposal: ex. how we will measure 
>outcomes.  We are trying  to find ways of measuring 
outcomes.  We decided 
>that it is best for  literacy students to set their OWN 
>goals..."   
>
>When people do not know what it is that they don't know but 
need to know,  
>they can't set realistic goals.  On the other hand, as the 
literacy expert  you 
>can determine what specific word recognition problems exist 
using such tools  
>as AVKO's "Suggested Order for Diagnosis and Remediation of 
the Simple, Fancy, 
> and Insane Words."  
> 
>This is free up on the spelling.org (www. in front of 
course)  website.  Go 
>the website, click on freebies, click on The Teaching of  
Reading and Spelling: 
>a Continuum from Kindergarten through College.  Find  the 
appropriate 
>chapters and click on them.  The entire book (all 62  
chapters) is up there.
> 
>Don McCabe



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