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Assessing Reading Using an MBE
FrameworkHT820
Rachel Currie-RubinApril 14, 2014
Thank you and introductionsHow many of you…
Are former teachers or administrators?
Are interested in going into teaching or administration?
Are interested in becoming researchers?
Are unsure of your plans after HGSE?
Have taught or researched reading?
Agenda
1. Traditional Reading Assessment
2. Reading Assessment using an MBE framework
3. Discussion- casea. What are implications of using this framework for instruction? b. What are implications of using this framework for research?
Questions
1. What are traditional reading assessments, and what do they tell us?
2. How might reading assessments look different if they are informed by an MBE framework?
3. What are the implications for instruction or research when we use an MBE framework for assessing reading?
What does it take to read?C-A-T
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Traditional Reading Assessment
Phonological Processing
Phonological
Awareness
Phonological Memory
Rapid Naming
Decoding Fluency
Comprehension
Generally Reading Assessment isn’t done in isolation…Cognitive assessments looking at
verbal skills, visual spatial skills, working memory skills, processing speed are also conducted.
Assessors often try to connect these skills to understand underlying challenges students face.
ExampleAlice B. has strong verbal skills, strong visual spatial
skills, and strong working memory skills BUT she has relatively slow processing speed.
Strong verbal skills often strong comprehension skills
Combination of strong verbal skills and visual spatial skillsoften strong decoding and sight word reading
Strong working memory often strong comprehension skills, ability to decode longer words
Slow processing often slow rapid naming, slow reading speed (fluency)
But aren’t these component skills related to what’s going on in the brain?
YES!
Visual(?)
Auditory/visual(?)
Articulatory
What about memory, processing speed, comprehension? Do all “dyslexic brains”
think alike?
Variability in our reading brains-Any one area “responsible” for a component of
reading may be responsible for reading difficulty
OR
-Connections among areas could be responsible for reading difficulties.
There may be patterns among people with reading difficulties BUT reading difficulties can arise from different route causes.
Cognitive FrameworkAcademic abilities such as reading are
complex and multifaceted. Multiple reading subskills /cognitive skills
are critical for readingReading can break down because of
deficits in any one area or because of weaknesses in multiple areas.
The relationship between cognitive skills and academic abilities changes as children develop.
Working MemoryThe ability to do mental work with
information in short-term memory.
Each sense has a short term memory
Our prefrontal cortex helps with the manipulation part
Early word decoding network and working memory
Fluent single word reading vs. disfluent single word reading
When a reading weakness arises, we might ask: What is going on with…
1) Prefrontal executive functions
2) Spatial and verbal short-term memory
3) Functional connection between executive and short-term memory in different areas
Visuo-spatial
Verbal
Prefrontal
Implications for assessmentAssessment can’t just look at
Phonological processing
Decoding
Fluency
Comprehension
Nor can assessment just look atVisual skills
Verbal Skills
Processing Speed
Working Memory
It needs to look at…
Visuo-spatial
Verbal
Prefrontal
1) PREFRONTAL EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY, EXECUTIVE
FUNCTION, NON-VERBAL REASONING, WORKING MEMORY.
2) SHORT-TERM MEMORY VERBAL SHORT-TERM MEMORY,
VISUO-SPATIAL SHORT TERM MEMORY
3) CONNECTION BETWEEN EXECUTIVE AND SHORT-TERM MEMORY
PROCESSING SPEED, WORKING MEMORY.
Example
Example
So what? If we know “where” the difficulty in
reading arises, what are the implications for instruction?
If we know “where” the difficulty in reading arises, what are the implications for research?
Questions to ponder…1. Can you work on these subskills (i.e., verbal working
memory) or must you work on the “larger” skill (i.e., the reading skill)?
2. If we find that students have difficulty in some but not all areas implicated in reading, what does that mean about a single diagnostic label? Do labels make sense? Why or why not?
3. How are these same subskills (verbal working memory, visuo-spatial working memory etc.) implicated in other subject areas? If we find that students with reading difficulties struggle with these underlying cognitive skills, can we say that a child has a “reading disability” or a “nonverbal learning disability”? How could thinking from a cognitive framework change our understanding of disability?
Questions
1. What are traditional reading assessments, and what do they tell us?
2. How might reading assessments look different if they are informed by an MBE framework?
3. What are the implications for instruction or research when we use an MBE framework for assessing reading?
Thank you