EDUC 720 - Assessment Training for Leaders

Prerequisites
Acceptance into training as a Leader at Saint Mary’s College. Suitable candidates must hold a Master’s Degree and must have 3 to 5 years of successful classroom teaching experience. In addition, the candidate must have local administrative approval for enrolling in this program and must also have District Superintendent approval. This course is taught by Trainers who have been trained and certified according to the Standards and Guidelines.

The purposes of this course are to enable prospective Leaders 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 students s’s literacy development; and acquire observational competency in determining students’s strengths related to early literacy acquisition. In addition, Leaders in Training learn how to teach classroom teachers and reading specialists how to administer valid assessment tasks, how to analyze and interpret them based on factual evidence, and how to use assessment information to inform instruction.

Course credits: 2