Learner Questionnaire & Reading Assessments

Hello Literacy AmeriCorps Members,

Happy New Year! I just wanted to remind everyone about assessing at least two learners at your site during this month. For those of you who may have forgotten what to do during the holidays or were not present when I talked about the assessments December 19th, this is a recap:

1. Choose at least two learners at your site.
2. Using the materials from the daylong reading training at UNO, administer the Learner Questionnaire, the San Diego Quick Assessment and the timed oral reading test.
3. You may complete the questionnaire and the San Diego Quick Assessment in one sitting and then the timed oral reading test in another sitting.
4. You may do it all at one time if the learner is not tired and you have access to the Internet to retrieve the timed readings from the Marshall Adult Education website.
5. *Remember, you are using the grade equivalent obtained from the San Diego Quick Assessment to choose the appropriate leveled reading (from the Marshall Adult Education website) to administer the timed oral reading.
6. If there is already a learner questionnaire in the learner's file, it is not necessary to do another one. However, it may be helpful to ask some of the questions that do not appear on the questionnaire in the learner's file.
7. Please keep all of these documents in a folder because we will talk about the assessments during the January 30th training and I will collect them.

I would like to thank Noel for already assessing his students and sharing the process with us during the December 19th training. For those of you who were not there, Noel completed both assessments with two learners and he was able to do both assessments at the same time since he had access to the Internet. Noel, please feel free to post any helpful hints or comments to the LAC members about administering the assessments.

If you missed part or all of the Dec. 12th and/or Dec. 19th training and need assistance, please email me and I would be happy to set up a time to meet with you. -Hazel