Introduction to Reading Assessment; Assessment of Phonological Skills
6.2 Issues in Assessing Phonological Skills
Learning Intentions
After viewing this module session participants will be able to:
- identify some of the challenges to assessing phonological skills
- Describe the importance of assessing working memory and rapid automatized naming
- Indicate why phonemic manipulation tasks are more useful than other phonemic awareness tasks
- Identify what constitutes “average” performance
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Watch the session below.
*Please see the Transcripts resource folder located in Module 0 for a text copy of the transcript from this video.
Summary
- Each phonological core deficit area should be evaluated in word-reading evaluations
- There
are several advantages to assessing working memory and rapid
automatized naming
- Phonemic
manipulation tasks
are best
practice because they correlate more strongly with reading, can assess phonemic
proficiency, and were used in the most successful reading intervention studies
- Average
performances need to be adjusted to refer to the top two thirds of students
(based on national norms)
Reflect & Connect
How might you design a battery that includes the assessment of phonological skills?