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Assessment

Early Literacy and Assessment for Learning (K-3) Series
Little Books: Assessment for Learning: A Teacher's Story
This booklet, part of the Early Literacy and Assessment for Learning (K-3) Series, provides a brief overview of assessment for learning and is designed to familiarize Pacific teachers with classroom assessment and its link to teaching in support of student learning and growth.
Early Literacy and Assessment for Learning (K-3) Series
Little Books: Exploring Comprehension through Retelling: A Teacher's Story
This booklet, part of the Early Literacy and Assessment for Learning (K-3) Series, shares a teacher's experiences creating opportunities that enhance comprehension through narrative retelling.
Using Standards-Led Policy to Align Assessment and Accountability Systems
This paper presents two strategies designed to meet increased accountability requirements for student achievement: 1) Standards-Based Accountability Systems and 2) Alignment With Standards.
Early Literacy and Assessment for Learning (K-3) Series
Little Books: Letter Knowledge: A Teacher's Story
This booklet, part of the Early Literacy and Assessment for Learning (K-3) Series, shares a teacher's experiences in creating a rich learning environment that enhances letter learning for young students.
Early Literacy and Assessment for Learning (K-3) Series
Little Books: Little Honu's Journey
This illustrated children's book accompanies Exploring Comprehension through Retelling: A Teacher's Story, part of the Early Literacy and Assessment for Learning (K-3) Series. It describes a baby turtle's adventures on his journey to the ocean.
Early Literacy and Assessment for Learning (K-3) Series
Little Books: Print Literacy: A Teacher's Story
This booklet, part of the Early Literacy and Assessment for Learning (K-3) Series, shares a teacher's experiences learning how to create a rich learning environment that enhances literacy for young students.
Early Literacy and Assessment for Learning (K-3) Series
Little Books: Word Identification: A Teacher's Story
This booklet, part of the Early Literacy and Assessment for Learning (K-3) Series, shares a teacher's experiences creating a rich learning environment that enhances accurate and automatic word identification for young students.
REL Pacific: A Status Report on Middle School Mathematics Assessment and Student Achievement in the Pacific Region
This study answers one basic question: What is the status of student achievement in middle school mathematics in the Pacific Region jurisdictions? The findings provide a portrait of the types of mathematic assessments used in grades 7 and 8 and of how well students are performing.
REL Pacific: English Language Proficiency Assessment in the Pacific Region
Using various approaches to identify English language learners, several Pacific region jurisdictions are developing English language proficiency standards and assessments aligned with those standards. Others are working on content standards, including language arts, and have expressed interest in developing English language proficiency standards but lack formal assessment mechanisms.
Assessing Reading Fluency
This booklet is intended to assist practitioners in monitoring students' fluency development. Assessments are discussed in terms of three components of fluency: Accuracy - accurate decoding of words in text; Automaticity - decoding words with minimal use of attentional resources; and Prosody - appropriate use of phrasing and expression to convey meaning. Sample assessments are included.
Educational Needs in the Pacific Region: The REL Client Interview Report (Research Report)
In January 2006, 42 semistructured telephone interviews were conducted by PREL staff with educators in the Pacific region. Trained interviewers asked them about the two most critical needs, the root causes behind those needs, solutions to meeting those needs, and PREL's role in the solutions. This report discusses the content analyses of the expressed educational needs of the region, as well as potential solutions and ways in which PREL could be of assistance in addressing these needs.
Evaluation of the Outcomes and Impact of the Pacific CHILD Professional Development Model
(Research Report)
The Pacific Communities with High-performance in Literacy Development (Pacific CHILD) Professional Development Model research project was initiated in response to an overwhelming need in PREL's Pacific service region for improvement of teachers' knowledge and instructional practices in early reading. This report examines the question of the quality of the professional development provided through Pacific CHILD, how quality of this model program was measured, and the findings on the quality of professional development.