Assessment
of literacy
There are strong links between the Literacy Strategy and the National Assessment Strategy. The strategies are aligned to help schools and teachers to gather, analyse, and use good-quality assessment information. A range of high-quality assessment tools and procedures is necessary for gathering information to evaluate and support literacy learning. The Ministry provides tools that are broadly applicable as well as tools specifically for literacy learning.
School
Entry Assessment
This tool provides teachers with reliable diagnostic information about each new entrant's understanding in aspects of numeracy, oral language, and emergent literacy. A current review of SEA will strengthen its relationships with the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy.
The
National Education Monitoring Project
Schools can either modify the NEMP tasks to suit their own assessment purposes or follow the original procedures.
The
National Exemplars
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An exemplar is an authentic example of student work annotated to illustrate learning, achievement, and quality in relation to the levels described in the relevant national curriculum statement. Each exemplar highlights significant features of that work and important aspects of students' learning.
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The National Exemplars are currently being developed at levels 1 to 5, in English and te reo Māori, in all curriculum areas. Publication of phase 1 of the exemplars in English is scheduled for early 2003.
Using an exemplar together with a related "matrix" (a table of progress indicators) will help teachers to understand where to "best fit" a piece of student work and how to guide the student about further learning steps or "where to next".
Assessment
Tools for Teaching and Learning – asTTle
The asTTle CD-ROM and teachers' booklet are being developed for publication in 2003. The asTTle English literacy package for use in years 5, 6, and 7 will help teachers plan for assessment, preferably as part of their regular programme. They will be able to:
- devise their own 40-minute assessment tool specifically related
to what they intend to teach or have been teaching;
- score student responses according to the instructions provided;
- log the results;
- study the data in a set of easily understood graphic formats;
- compare the performance of individuals or groups with national standards of achievement.
Assessment
Resource Banks (ARBs)
The ARBs are available for levels 2 to 5 in English, science, and mathematics. From these banks, schools can:
- choose assessment materials that best suit their curriculum and student needs;
- choose valid material for formative, summative, and monitoring purposes within schools;
- combine resources to form mastery tests, full-length tests for class or school-wide uses, or sets of resources for intensive diagnostic assessment.
Teachers can adapt the ideas and contents of ARB resources to suit their own students' needs.
An example from the ARB English bank
Based on an excerpt from Junior Journal 17, published by Learning Media for the Ministry of Eduction.
Read the poem "Trampoline Bounce" by Philippa Werry to help answer the questions.
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Draw a circle around the line in the poem which
shows two children have been jumping on the trampoline at the
same time. |
| b) |
Write the words from the poem which show that one
of the children gets off the trampoline. |
| c) |
How many people talk in this poem? |
| d) |
The words "high", "fly", and "I" all rhyme. Write
down three other words in the poem which rhyme with each other.
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| e) |
"Bounce", "bound", and "leap" are action verbs.
Write down three more action verbs from the poem. |
| f) |
In this poem two different types of print have
been used. What information does this give the reader? |
For assessment generally go to:
www.tki.org.nz/e/communities/assessment
View an online copy of the Curriculum Update issue looking at assessment:
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/governance/curric_updates/curr_update47_e.php
View the exemplars so far developed at:
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/assessment/exemplars/index_e.php
View the ARBs at:
www.nzcer.org.nz
View the NEMP materials at:
http://nemp.otago.ac.nz/
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