BRAVO! We do these assessments for NCLB and the district. As educated
teachers we know it is so much more. I would love to know what Tim
Rasinski had replied...I just love the fact that he responded to
you..shows passion and commitment. You should sell your assessment
package..........shows your PASSION and commitment for excellence. Job
well done.
Hillary Marchel
Reading Specialist
march...@hawthorn73.org-elementary North
"El fin de toda educacion debe ser seguramente el servicio a otros."
~ Cesar Chavez
"The end of all education should surely be service to others."
On Feb 11, 2010, at 7:20 AM, tk...@aol.com wrote:
I love reading this discussion of Aimsweb! I was so frustrated when
our district used this program last year. It goes against EVERY
single thing I know about reading instruction and reading
assessment. Remember: "What gets measured, gets done!" I knew I
did not want teaching for fast reading to get "done" in our
district. I even emailed Tim Rasinski last year and got a great
response about how he felt these 1 minute assessments were a travesty!
We (reading specialists) decided to write our own progress
monitoring assessments that actually assess real reading: ALL
aspects of fluency, accuraccy, comprehension (literal and
inferential). We bought rigby texts and have created over 150 tests
from levels 3-34. I don't think we knew what we were getting
ourselves into when we started (over 800 pages of assessments!), and
I'm not sure we would do it again. Now that it is done though, we
are happy we did! We feel we actually get useful information this
year. Yes, it does take longer to administer (although we don't do
them every week), but as the IRA says, we shouldn't sacrifice
quality for efficiency.
I say that anyone who is really unhappy with what they are using
should keep speaking up and searching for something that makes sense!
Tricia Burke
Reading Specialist
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