Katie McDougall

11/16/13

Technology Assessment
Step 1: Background
Grade 4
Red Hill Elementary School
70% Military
Class has approx. 18-20 students
http://arch.k12.hi.us/PDFs/ssir/2012/Central/SSIR225-2.pdf
This assessment is planned for a fourth grade class at Red Hill Elementary School. The students
are mostly from military backgrounds, so throughout the year there may be lots of transitions in
class size and mild changes in the demographic. The classrooms are not overcrowded and have
about 18-20 students in each. The school is a Strive Hi School as well as a school that practices
tribes.
Because of the diversity in the classroom, and transitioning from military families, the students
literacy skills reach across the board. Some students require additional assignments as they have
a more accelerated learning pace, where as some other students are struggling in finding interest
in literacy related activities.
Many of these students are still in the process of developing strategies for reading
comprehension and vocabulary in older grades 4-6. Students have shown interest from reading
inventories about animals, thus why this assessment was chosen.

Step 2: CCSS Language Arts Standard

Fourth Grade CCSS Reading Comprehension Standard
Range of Reading and Complexity of Text
4.RI.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in
the grades 45 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of
the range.
This standard was chosen because in this assessment we are working towards meeting the final
goal of this standard. We are now in the middle of the year, so that students have time to learn
new strategies for comprehension, and improve on them before the end of the year when they
may have to take formal assessment HAS (Hawaii State assessment at the end of the year.
Step 3: Assessing student understanding of the standard
The Tool I will use to assess students understanding of the standard is the iPad, preferably for
this classroom I would have 4-6 iPads available for instructional use. For this particular

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assessment of comprehension I would use the Reading Comprehension: Fable

EditionApplication.
Here is a short description of the App provided on iTunes:
If you're looking for a fun app to encourage your young one to read more look no further. This
app combines reading, comprehension and gaming all in one! Each bundle consists of 10 stories
based on the well loved Aesop's Fables. After each story, there is a comprehension quiz for
readers to engage in. After the reader has read all 10 stories, he or she can compete alone or
challenge up to three other readers to a game of story recall. Playing alone, the reader can
compete for the highest score in the world on Game Center! As they read each story and take the
quiz, readers can unlock achievements using their Game Center account. Using your iPad's
ability, readers can have words defined or even read to them as needed. This application is
packed full of support to assist parents and teachers. To keep track of the readers progress, scores
can be e-mailed after individual quizzes and progress can be viewed on Game Center. These
stories are written on a 2nd to 4th grade level. Additional story collections can be purchased
inside the app.***Features ***- Easy to use user interface- Includes ten stories- Every story
contains a moral lesson- Each story contains 10 multiple choice questions- Multiple choice
questions are randomized each time a quiz is taken.- Use Game Center to keep track of your
child's progress through the application- Since this app uses Game Center all achievements are
backed up in the cloud. - Unlimited Game Center Accounts can be made- Unlock Game Center
Achievements- Stories are based on a 2nd to 4th Grade reading level- Children can compete for
the highest scores on Single Player Game Mode- Children can test their knowledge against their
friends in Multiplayer Game Mode- Students can send their parents or teacher an email
containing how they did on a quiz- The email contains a text file to prevent the data from being
manipulated- The email's text file contains the following: date, title of story, percentage, and the
questions they missed along with their answer and the right answer- The stories' font can easily
be resized- Words or stories can be read using your iPad's Speak Selection Accessibility(See the
How To section inside the app)- Words can easily be defined in the text- Additional story
collections can be purchase inside the app
For the first introduction of this assessment and activity, students will have already had an
opportunity to practice reading passages and answering multiple choice comprehension
questions.
Before the first assessment will be taken the entire class will have a chance to complete a
designated practice passage, this passage will be the first book in the first collection in the
application, The Donkey in the Lions skin. The children will be instructed to click on the book,
read and reread the passage using strategies that we have used in class. As soon as the students
are done reading they are asked to click the Quiz button at the bottom of the passage. The student
then has a 10 question multiple choice quiz to complete, In order to move on to the next question
you must select the correct answer. Then the teacher will instruct the student to click the email
button at the button of the page and email the results of the quiz to both his/her email account as
well as the teachers email account.
Assessment Strategy: Selected Response 10 question quiz about a Fable

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Technology used to administer Assessment: iPad- Reading Comprehension Fable Edition

Technology to express understanding: The students will provide answers to questions developed
within the app to demonstrate understanding and comprehension, which helps meet the goals of
the standard.
Technology used to Analyze data: Teacher will review missed questions to determine where
student maybe struggling to apply strategies. The missed questions are available on the email
report of the assessment score. As the teacher looks at the results of more and more of the
quizzes, it maybe become more evident what kind of strategies they need more help with,
whether it be retell, recall, vocabularyetc.
Technology as a tool to represent data: After the teacher collected all of the emails with the
scores of the assessment, the best way for the teacher to organize it is to develop a line graph of
each students progress. This will be fairly simple since there are only 10 questions per fable and
10 fables in the first book collection.

This part of the assessment scoring can be completed by either the child or the teacher, but as
mentioned in RTI when children take responsibility in scoring their own work, they are often
shown to have more improvement.
For example this shows that the student is making adequate progress in comprehension skills,
although this is not the only way the data should be analyzed.
As mentioned before, the teacher must also look at the types of questions missed for each quiz.
This can be scored on a quick rubric that looks like this, where the teacher simply makes a tic
mark for each type of question marked. From this data, the teacher can analyze the type of
questions the students are having difficulty with, and alter instruction if needed based on the data
from the whole class.

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Recall

Sequence

Vocabulary

Theme

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Week10

As the students are completing silent reading in the classroom, small groups that are teacher
selected would be responsible for completing the assessment each week.