[MOSAIC] QRI, DRA, Dibels...giving a TRAINING

[Joseph P. Ramirez]

Kerry,
  While I'm not aware of any websites that deal with this issue, I will tell you that this has been a continual problem within my school district.  Since much of the scoring is subjective, I routinely have students come into my fifth grade classroom at a level of proficiency they are nowhere near.  However, their fourth grade teacher felt they did incredibly well.  I would offer that any training you provide would include many samples of student work to use as authentic assessment.  Then, invite teachers to score these as a group after some discussion and review of the rubrics.  If everyone is not on the same page, the results will be useless.  The phenomenon that I see occurring is teachers giving students scores they are not earning so that the teacher can show "growth" from the beginning of the year to the mid point and then the end of the year.  Good luck!  --Joseph
  
Kerry Lewis <readingisthinking at gmail.com> wrote:
  Hi -

I know this is slightly off-topic but I was wondering if you could help. I
am looking for materials I could utilize to train teachers how to administer
and score the QRI, DRA, and DIBELS assessments. I'd appreciate any web site
links, handouts, advice, etc.

Thanks!
Kerry/5th
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