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29.035 - Structured Scenario-Based Assessments as Tools to Support Best Practices in Reading/Writing Instruction

Fri, April 17, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Sheraton, Floor: Second Level, Huron

Session Type: Symposium

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A key goal of literacy and writing instruction is to equip students to handle complex performances such as document analysis, extended argument, and research, skills critical for college and career readiness, and central to recent educational reforms. We will examine several lines of research that focus on the connection between assessment, instruction, and performance on complex literacy task. We examine a class of tools that may help address this need: structured scenario-based assessments (SSBAs). An SSBA has (a) a task sequence that models effective strategy use; (b) items that measure student ability to implement targeted strategies. We argue that SSBAs can help teachers target skills for instruction while explicitly linking those skills to effective literacy strategies.

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