Standardized Test Presentation

1. Standardized Test Presentation Ashley Riviere EDI 419 March 28th, 2011

2. Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests—Revised (WRMT—R) • What does this test tell us about students? • What is the most important part in scoring a student’s WRMT—R test?

3. Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests—Revised (WRMT-R) • “It is a comprehensive battery of tests measuring several important aspects of reading ability,” (1) • Tests grades K-College Senior & adults to 75 and older.

4. WRMT—R • Six tests: • Word Identification • Word Attack • Word Comprehension: Antonyms • Word Comprehension: Synonyms • Word Comprehension: Analogies • Passage Comprehension

5. WRMT—R Featured Test: Passage Comprehension “(Used to measure) the subject’s ability to study a short passage—usually two to three sentences long—and to identify a key word from missing from a passage,” (8).

6. WRMT—R Passage Comprehension Instructional Implications: “The processes involved in this task (a modified cloze procedure) require simultaneous understanding of both semantic and syntactic clues in the written text,” (67). “The reader must focus on the author’s representation of ideas and still understand the relationship among that language features,” (67).

7. WRMT—R Passage Comprehension Instructional Implications: “Below average performance on the Passage Comprehension test may indicate that the subject either makes poor use of passage context clues or is unable to decode key words accurately from a passage,” (67).

8. WRMT—R Directions for Teacher to say to Student: “Point to the first item and say: Read this to yourself and tell me a good word to go in the blank space. Point to the blank. After the subject responds to the first item, say: Go ahead with the others. If the subject fails to respond within approximately 30 seconds after reading an entire passage, encourage a response. If the subject still fails to respond, point to the next item and say: Try this one,” -(Form H: Passage Comprehension 19-21)

9. WRMT—R Test Student: • 3rd Grade • Below average reading abilities according to teacher • Parent intervention • Extra help

10. WRMT—R WRMT—R Passage Comprehension 19-21

11. WRMT—R WRMT—R Passage Comprehension 53-56

12. WRMT—R Scoring: • “Each test item administered is scored by placing a 1 (one) or 0 (zero) next to that item in the space labeled “Score” on the response pages of the test record,” (27). • 1=Correct response • 0=Incorrect response or failure to respond • If the student changes their response, score according to the last/final response given.

13. WRMT—R Results: • Olivia scored 45/68 (W Score-512) • Subtract R Score (389) from W Score • DIFF = 123 • Relative Performance Index (RPI) = 99/90 • Percentile Rank (PR) = 99

14. WRMT—R • What does this mean? According to the test results, Olivia reads at a 7th grade level. She is in the 99th percentile for her age and grade level.

15. WRMT—R • What are some factors that may have influenced Olivia’s test? • Why might her teacher think that her reading skills are below grade level? • What types of intervention and help could Olivia receive outside or inside of the classroom to improve her performance at school?

16. WRMT—R • Would you use this test? • What in particular do you like about this test? • Was the scoring easy or difficult? • What grade level might this be most effective for based on today’s lesson?

17. WRMT—R • What does this test tell us about students? • What is the most important part in scoring a student’s WRMT—R test?

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