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Learn how Strategic Content Literacy Assessment (SCLA) improves students' cognitive processes, connections to prior knowledge, and metacognition. Discuss creating assessments that engage students with discipline-specific texts.
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Strategic Content Literacy Assessment (SCLA) ELA PD March 2016
Agenda • Discuss and Create Assessments for Learning: Cognitive • Strategic Content Literacy Assessment (SCLA)
SCLA • Provides students with an opportunity to become engaged with a common representative content area text • Students are asked to respond to several cognitive tasks representative of the kinds of thinking found in the discipline.
What Does a SCLA Measure? • Cognitive Processes • Connection to prior knowledge • Summarization of the text • Differentiation between important and unimportant information • Drawing inferences • Making connections within the text • Vocabulary • Metacognition
How Does It Work? • Select a short piece of text and create 4-6 questions to elicit targeted cognitive processes. • Introduce passage and task to students, asking the students to read and circle unfamiliar words as they go along. • Create a scoring guide for the class and record data for each student.
How Does It Work? • Look for patterns in students’ performances: • Which tasks did most students perform well? • What common difficulties appeared? • Use the data to inform instruction. • A teacher might select one or two strategies, unfamiliar vocabulary items, or subject area concepts as goals for subsequent teaching. • Adaptations may need to occur for ELLs such as limiting what they read, allowing diagrams and drawing for most responses, or inviting ESL teacher to work with a small group of students to facilitate ELLs responses.
Sample SCLA • Text: • Excerpt from Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX(the law that changed the future of girls in America) • Identify the cognitive process you used to read the text. • Identify the cognitive processes being measured.
Creating a SCLA • Take out the text you brought along with you. • Think about the cognitive processes you want to measure. • Generate 4-6 Cognitive Processing Questions you want to ask your students. • Share your text and a couple of questions, identifying the cognitive process being measured.
Scoring Rubrics • Scoring guides can vary, depending on cognitive process measured and the discipline. • Use the rubrics to look for patterns and weaknesses among students. • Create mini-lessons to be used in guided literacy groups.
Closing • SCLA is a formative assessment to use in addition to what you are already doing. • They are not graded for correctness, but they are assessed for appropriate cognitive processing.
Final Thoughts • Questions? • Submit your SCLA to me by Friday.