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Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on design an informal assessment.

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on design an informal assessment. The initial task will be a two-part task. In the first part, the student will perform a running record test with the teacher and the second part will be observed through lessons and play throughout the rest of the day. A checklist of behaviors to look for, based on the DSM-IV standards, will be used to check against Adam's behavior patterns on both parts of the task. A running record test is a type of informal assessment to determine a child's reading level, strategies, strengths, and weaknesses in reading. For this part, the teacher will provide the student with an approximately one hundred word text sample and the student will read the text aloud, with the teacher making notes on errors that the student makes, the behavior that they observe while the student reads, and which strategies the student is using to read the text. After the student has finished reading the passage, the teacher will then ask the student a set of reading comprehension questions. Adam has previously been scored as a fourth-grade level reader, so the text chosen is appropriate for a fourth-grade reader. His text, borrowed from Mahoneys "These Trees!" appears below.

Adam had difficulty maintaining attention on the passage. His focus had to be redirected several times to the work in front of him. He wanted to start a conversation about the trees in his backyard and then about the trees outside the window. During the test, he constantly was playing with the pencil that he had brought with him from his desk. Adam was quick to answer some of the questions (the last two). He had the answers to those questions before I finished asking them. I had to repeat questions one and three a couple of times before he gave an answer, however.

Throughout observation during the rest of the day, several other behaviors were observed. Adam had difficulty following instructions and couldn't finish a game of battleship during recess with his friends. He was also out of his seat half a dozen times after lunch and had to sit at the silent table during lunch from excessive talking in the hallway.

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