EDUC 617 - Assessment (Training for Teachers)

Prerequisites
Acceptance into training in at selected school districts and agencies affiliated with the Comprehensive Literacy Center at Saint Mary’s College. This course is taught off campus at selected school districts by trained Leaders affiliated with the Comprehensive Literacy Center at Saint Mary’s College.

This course is taught by Leaders who hold a Master’s Degree and have successfully completed 12 to 16 units of Graduate Level post-Master’s coursework at Saint Mary’s College and who are employed by local school districts as credentialed teachers. The purposes of this course are to enable prospective Teachers to: administer, score and interpret records of oral reading; administer, score and interpret other assessment tasks of early literacy acquisition; develop skill in summarizing results of early literacy assessment tasks; construct an assessment kit of materials for observing student’s literacy development; and acquire observational competency in determining student’s strengths related to early literacy acquisition.

Course credits: 2