Missing Link: Assessment for children learning to read

 
A quick three-minute long explanation of Dynamic Assessment and the missing link in assessing children learning to read by Dr. Turner 

Everyone talks about multiple data points, but most of these data points are formal data sets, they fail to show what children can do with the help of teachers.

Thoughts on Dynamic Assessment, that assessment that tracks the actual learning data between child and teacher in real-time.

Dynamic Assessment is the missing link in Assessment learning to read. It bothers me when you don't find it on any data walls.

 

This data does not only assess the child. Dr. Thomas Gunning, an author who has published dozens of crucial textbooks on teaching children to read over the past three decades, points to assessing our teaching as well. He views Dynamic assessment as assessing both child and teacher effectiveness.

 

Dynamic Assessment data is not soft data, it provides critical missing links collecting multiple data points. The voices of children and teachers give us real data as to how successful teacher instruction is. Yetta Goodman referred to it as Kidwatching. Multiple Data Points without the two most critical stakeholders in learning, (children and teachers) is like Pizza without toppings. 

Can't wait until I see Bob Greenberg. I am going to kick it off. I will give him plenty of others as well to record for this new possible tread on Brainwaves Vido Anthologies.

Happy Thanksgiving,

Dr. Jesse P. Turner

CCSU Literacy Center Director