LANGUAGE Placement Assessment

1. LANGUAGE! Placement Assessment 15 Minute Mini-Course on Assessing Miami-Dade Students in Grades 5-7 for Fall 2008 6-8 Reading Placement

2. Content What are we doing? Why are we doing it? How will we do it? Directions for Administering the assessments. Assessment Logistics.

3. What are we doing? Providing the district with pre-placement guidance for Grade 5. Providing the district with placement assessment guidance and scoring assessments: Grades 6 & 7

4. Why are we doing this? Objectives: Ensure the proper placement in either Intensive Reading or Intensive Reading+ of all appropriate Miami-Dade 6th � 8th graders for the school year beginning Fall, 2008 Employ enhanced assessment precision in the placement process Capture additional data about each student that can be provided to Miami-Dade teachers and administrators to assist in providing the best and earliest intervention treatment possible

5. How are we doing it? Current Grade 5: Sopris will provide pre placement guidance by establishing cut scores using national norms. LANGUAGE! Assessments will be delivered by the receiving Middle Schools in the Fall, 2008-9 School Year. Current Grades 6-7 : Using Spring High Risk data from the PMRN, placement assessments will be delivered to the current Middle Schools by Friday, May 16, 2008. Materials will include: Teacher placement guides, one per 50 students. Student Assessments Booklets A scan-able version of the DRP preformatted with student data. Assessments should be delivered between May 20-22 Schools should return using the pre addressed labels on May 23. Sopris will score the assessments and return placement data to the district.

6. Projections for Ordering Materials

7. Pre placement for Grade 5, Assessment for Grades 6 and 7

8. Administering the Assessments TOSWRF Overview Administering the TOSWRF DRP Overview Administering the DRP

9. General Administration Guidelines � TOSWRF & DRP Review the specific directions for administration provided in this mini course. Deliver the instructions to students for each test verbatim. Students should not practice the tests or study the words or passages in the tests either before or after the tests are administered. Keep the assessments in a secure place. Distribute the booklets immediately before testing, and collect them as soon as a testing session is done. The assessments should not be used for teaching purposes; do not correct students� errors. Encourage students to do their best!

14. First Time Administering TOSWRF? Study the content in this section carefully Practice administering the test at least once (or � take it yourself or with a colleague, timed for 3 minutes, to get a feel for what students will encounter and be expected to do)? Questions? Ask a colleague or supervisor about any information you do not understand.

15. Administering the TOSWRF: What You Will Need A stopwatch or a watch or clock with s second hand. Remember, each Form of the TOSWRF � Form A and Form B is a timed test � exactly 3 minutes each The two forms of the test � Form A and Form B. You should have and administer both forms to each student. A room with a chalkboard, a dry-erase whiteboard, or some method for projecting to a whole group an example to all students such as an overhead projector, or other projection device.

16. Administering the TOSWRF: Instructions Step 1: Before administering the test, print the three example rows of words on a chalkboard, dry-erase board, or overhead projector so that the letters are clearly visible to the students being tested (an overhead transparency is included in each box of test forms that were shipped into Miami-Dade)? Step 2: Have students turn to page 3 of the student test booklet. Confirm that students are on the correct page. Step 3: Say: Do not turn the page until I tell you to. Once students have opened to the correct page, say: Look at the first row of words on the bottom of the page. Hold up a student�s booklet for the class to see and point to the first row of words labeled �Example 1.� Then refer to the example rows printed on the chalkboard and say: See how the word �in� stops here just before the word �yes� begins? Draw a line right between �in� and �yes�. Demonstrate this on the board by drawing a line between �in� and �yes� on the board.

18. Administering the TOSWRF: Instructions Step 3 (Con�t.): Say: Now draw a line right between �yes� and �go�. Pause. Next, draw a line between �go� and �me� and between �me� and �see�. Finish the first example row on the board to demonstrate where the lines should go.

19. Administering the TOSWRF: Instructions Step 3 (Con�t.): Say: Remember, the line goes exactly where one word ends and the next starts. There are no extra letters between words. If you make a mistake, don�t try to erase it. Just make a cross through the top of the wrong line and put a new line where you think it should go. Demonstrate this on the chalkboard by placing a mark in the middle of the word yes and then correcting it.

20. Administering the TOSWRF: Instructions Step 3 (Con�t.): Say: Now look at the next two rows of words on your form. These words are run together. Just like before, you should draw a line each time a word ends and a new word begins. Draw your lines clearly between the words and try not to touch any letters. If you make a mistake, be sure to make a cross through the top of the wrong line and draw another line where you think it should go. Now, do these two lines. Check the work of each student being tested. If someone does not understand the task, instruct the student until he or she completely understands the task.

21. Administering the TOSWRF: Instructions Step 4: Once the students have successfully completed the practice items, say: Now I want you to do some more like the ones you just did. Remember, if you draw the line in the right place, a real word will be on each side of the line with no extra letters between them. The line will be between two words. None of the words will be names of people. This time you will have three minutes to find as many words as you can. (Turn the next page in a student booklet and show the second page of the Student Record Form.)?

22. Administering the TOSWRF: Instructions Step 4 (Con�t.): When I say �begin� you will start here, (point to upper left corner) and keep going to the end of the row. When you complete a row, go to the next one. Don�t skip any rows, and don�t draw a line at the beginning or end of the rows. If you don�t see a word you know, keep going until you do see a word you know. Remember to work as fast as you can without making mistakes. If you do draw a line in the wrong place, don�t try to erase it. Just put a cross through the top of the wrong line (point to the previous example on the board) and draw a new line where you think it should go.

23. Administering the TOSWRF: Instructions Step 4 (Con�t.): Say: Now, turn the page. Pause. Begin. Begin timing. After exactly three minutes, say: Stop. Check the work of each student being tested. If someone did not understand the task, instruct the student until she or he completely understands the task. Then, administer Form B. Say: Now I want you to do what you just did again. (Turn the next page in a student booklet and show the next Student Record Form.) When I say �begin� you will start here (point to the upper left corner). You will have three minutes to find as many words as you can. Say: Now, turn the page. Pause. Begin. Begin timing. After exactly three minutes, say: Stop.

24. What is DRP?

25. Receiving the DRP test Each school will receive a UPS package with a yellow envelope that will contain each student in alphabetical order by grade (6 and 7). There will be two sheets; one for the DRP and one for the TOSWRF. The student needs to only mark on the DRP; the other sheet should be slipped into the test and returned. If students take the test who where not on the list or have a bubble sheet, please have them write on the test legibly: Full Name ID number School Grade

26. Administering the DRP Skim �Administering the DRP Test� What does the bold text in the TE mean? Should the teacher read the sample items out loud? Is the DRP test timed?

27. Administering the DRP Reading Test: Instructions Have students open to page 7 in their Placement: Student Edition booklets. Make sure students are on the correct page.

28. Administering the DRP Reading Test: Instructions Step 1: Say: Find where it says �Directions to the Student� (point). Read silently while I read out loud. (Read directions to the students.) � The students will be using the separate answer form, say: On your answer sheet, find the same number as the blank. Mark the letter for the answer you have chosen.

29. DRP Bubble Answer Sheet

30. Administering the DRP Reading Test: Instructions Say: Read sample S-1 below (point) and see how the right answer has been marked on your booklet. Then read sample S-2 and mark the answer on your answer in your booklet. Teachers should not read the sample items out loud. (They are printed here only for the teacher�s information.) Give students time to do both items by themselves. Then proceed to Step 2.

31. Administering the DRP Reading Test: Instructions Step 2: After students have done both items, say: Now look at the rest of the directions after the samples. Read them silently while I read them out loud. Look at the answer for Sample S-1. The letter D is filled in because the word �weather� makes the best sense in the blank.

32. Administering the DRP Reading Test: Instructions Step 2: For Sample S-2, you should have filled in the bubble for the letter A because �rain� makes the best sense in the blank. As you can see, you may not be sure of the answer until you have read the sentences that come after the blank. So be sure to read enough to choose your answer.

33. Administering the DRP Reading Test: Instructions Step 2: You are not expected to read at the same speed as other students or to answer the same number of items. As you work on this test, you will find that the passages become harder to read. Do your best to read as many passages as you can and to answer as many items as you can. Work carefully and do not rush. You will be given as much time as you need. Remember�mark only one answer for each item. If you want to change an answer, be sure to erase or cross out your first mark. Then mark the answer you want. Also, remember to mark all your answers on the separate answer sheet. Turn the page in your booklet and begin the test.

34. Administering the DRP Reading Test: Instructions After students have begun the test: � Check to make sure that each student is following the directions. � You may help individual students, as long as assistance is limited to mechanical aspects of marking answers on their answer sheets and clarifying directions. DO NOT do the following: � indicate a correct answer � tell students words in the passage � provide clues for answering an item � If a student is marking answers without reading test items, encourage the student to study each item carefully. After students have done all they can: � Tell students to stop and collect all the Placement: Student Edition booklets and the scan sheets

35. Assessment Logistics Receiving the Assessments: Placement assessment will arrive at the sites on May 16. Each school will receive: Student scan sheets will arrive in a UPS �bubble pack� with a florescent pink label. Within this bubble pack, will be yellow envelopes that contain the scan score sheets that are pre populated with the student names and identification numbers. They will be in alphabetical order. Also in this package will be another folded 2-day bubble pack w/ a UPS Return Label. Student Placement booklets will arrive in a box with a florescent blue label identified as �Student Placement Assessments, Item # 70391. Teacher Placement Guides will arrive in a box with a florescent blue label identified as �Teacher Placement Guide, Item # 70383. If you do not receive you the three shipments above by May 16, please email Gladys Gonzalez at: gladysg@sopriswest.com

36. Assessment Logistics Delivering Assessments: Assessments should be delivered during the testing window, May 20-22. Remember that while the Student Placement Booklet contains three assessments, student will only be administered the TOSWRF and the DRP. Also note, the students must use the DRP scan sheets to respond to the DRP assessment, not the student placement booklet. Student names and student identifiers (if possible) should be written on the Student Placement Booklets. Once completed, the DRP scan sheet should be placed in the respective Student Placement Booklet.

37. Assessment Logistics Returning the Assessments: Once the assessments are completed, place the scan sheet back in the Student Placement Book and place all into the UPS Bubble Pack with the return label. Place the UPS pack in the schools daily pick up or call UPS to notify them that a package is ready for pick up a the school location.