Removing Inequities for Children When Differentiating Instruction and Assessment
Location
Session 4 Presentations - Literacy Education III
Proposal Track
Research Project
Session Format
Presentation
Abstract
Inequities occur for children when they are given materials they are unable to read. Children lose confidence and embarrassment begins. Participants will discuss how listening to the children read from increasingly difficult reading materials and using mathematical formulas to determine difficulty for reading materials, can remove the inequities that occur for children. Evaluation studies using these details showed effect sizes equaling or exceeding 1.5 sigma., It can be calculated that a .65 effect size is equal to about one year's growth on commercially prepared norm referenced standardized tests.
Keywords
Inequities, Social Justice
Professional Bio
Special education teacher - 6 years Elementary school teacher - 17 years Armstrong State University/Georgia Southern University - 29 years - Professor Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction, consultant - 46 years
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Recommended Citation
Hobe, John, "Removing Inequities for Children When Differentiating Instruction and Assessment" (2021). Georgia Educational Research Association Conference. 63.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gera/2021/2021/63
Removing Inequities for Children When Differentiating Instruction and Assessment
Session 4 Presentations - Literacy Education III
Inequities occur for children when they are given materials they are unable to read. Children lose confidence and embarrassment begins. Participants will discuss how listening to the children read from increasingly difficult reading materials and using mathematical formulas to determine difficulty for reading materials, can remove the inequities that occur for children. Evaluation studies using these details showed effect sizes equaling or exceeding 1.5 sigma., It can be calculated that a .65 effect size is equal to about one year's growth on commercially prepared norm referenced standardized tests.
