Tag: diagnostic
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BEFORE: More examples – Reading diagnostics
We also mentioned this resource in Collection 3. You can download it here if you need it. There are three ideas for diagnostic reading assessments you may wish to use, adapt or modify. If you already know what you’re doing for your contextualised literacy assessment you can skip this. Using reading focus groups This is…
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BEFORE: More examples – Listening and speaking diagnostics
Examples of literacy diagnostic assessments from the Learning Progressions Resources You may already have a good idea of what you want to do for your contextualised literacy diagnostic. If you’re unsure, vocabulary is a good option. Or you may wish to tackle other specific literacy skills. If you do, the supporting resources for the Learning…
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BEFORE: More examples – a contextualised vocabulary diagnostic for farming
What are some more examples of other literacy diagnostics that you can adapt or modify? Contextualised vocabulary assessment for farming and agriculture Here’s an example of a set of contextualised vocabulary diagnostic questions plus learning outcome from a farming and agriculture context. This set of questions is part of a larger set the tutors brainstormed…
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Pro tips for creating your own contextualised vocabulary diagnostic assessments
You can skip this section if you like. These are pro-tips for those who are interested. We don’t expect you to adopt these approaches if you are doing the NZCALNE (Voc). But if you are interested in developing better, contextualised vocabulary assessments there are a couple of other things you can experiment with. Both of…
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BEFORE: How do I create a contextualised vocab diagnostic I can use?
How do I create my own contextualised vocab diagnostic? If your learners have a basic vocabulary of around 2,000 high-frequency words, it’s likely that they can understand roughly 80% of the words in an academic text. If the text is highly technical, then it gets harder But your learners need to know around 95% of…
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BEFORE: How do I create my own contextualised literacy diagnostic?
Next, you need to develop and use your own contextualised literacy assessment that targets a specific skill that you want to strengthen. You’ll need to use this with your learners and report back on the results. Where are the examples for me to look at? They’re coming. You can skip ahead and come back here…
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BEFORE: What are some guidelines for designing my own contextualised literacy and numeracy assessments?
How do I design contextualised literacy and numeracy assessments for my learners? Next up, you need to design and use some contextualised literacy and numeracy assessments with your learners. If you remember back to the end of your last assessment for this course, we asked you to start thinking about specific learning outcomes for embedding…
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BEFORE: What is maths anxiety and what do I need to know about it?
One major reason for surveying learner attitudes to maths is the following: Many learners have had negative experiences to do with maths. Many tutors too. Our attitudes shape how we learn. So do the attitudes of parents. As tutors, these attitudes shape how we teach as well. For some learners, the level of anxiety that…
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How can I get my learners to self-assess their attitudes to maths?
How do I use the Attitudes to Maths survey with my learners? As well as using a self-assessment tool for reading attitudes, you should also use something similar for numeracy. The example below uses the word “maths” instead of numeracy. This is because it’s more likely to be familiar to the learners. Here are sample…
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How can I get my learners to self-assess their attitudes to reading?
How do I use the Attitudes to Reading Survey with my learners? Let’s recap. The first piece of supporting evidence that you should gather for this assessment includes the reports for your two learners for the Assessment Tool Reading and Numeracy. Next, we recommend that you also use some kind of learner self-assessment for aspects…