LST 550 - Assessment and Evaluation as a Framework for Literacy Instruction Credits: 3

This course explores types of assessment and evaluation measures, as well as their purpose and intended use within a comprehensive, integrated and balanced literacy program. Candidates will review various state assessments and the standards or anchors that formulate the content within the measure, as well as the structure of measures. Candidates will also evaluate various published assessments, namely those used within a commercially produced program. In addition, candidates will examine the use of assessment measures as a framework for determining instruction for whole group, small group, and independent students? reading and writing competencies. Candidates will analyze videos of simulated assessment administration, and use the data from the simulation to generate instruction for the simulated students.