Literacy Professional Learning Resource – Assessment

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VELS level 3

• Assessment advice - a definition of assessment and its purposes. Introduction and link to Assessment Professional Learning Modules.
• Assessing literacy using the standards and progression points - describes standards, progression points and assessment maps and their use in assessing student achievement.
• Assessment to support literacy learning - assessment tools and techniques suitable for use with students at this level.
• On Demand Testing - a review of the online assessment resources provided through the VCAA's On Demand Testing Program.
• Read and Retell - an assessment task based on student's retelling of texts read to them.
• TORCH: Tests of Reading Comprehension - an overview of the Tests of Reading Comprehension (TORCH), 2nd edition, ACER Press, 2003.
• PROBE: Prose, Reading Observation, Behaviour and Evaluation - an overview of the reading assessment tool PROBE, (Prose, Reading Observation, Behaviour and Evaluation) 2nd edition, Publisher:Triune Initiatives NZ 2002
• Developmental Assessment Resource for Teachers (DART) English - an overview of the Developmental Assessment Resource for Teachers (DART) English.
• View the video clips on the English Developmental Continuum for reading, writing, speaking and listening at 3:0:
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Speaking and listening