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Multiple Assessments - The school utilizes multiple evaluation and assessment strategies in literacy to continuously monitor and modify literacy instruction to meet student needs and support proficient student work in literacy.
Literacy PERKS - Multiple Assessments - Literacy PERKS (Program Effectiveness Review For Kentucky Schools) is designed for use by school, district, and state-level reviewers. At the school level, the best use of Literacy PERKS occurs when Literacy Team members complete the review and use the results to develop a schoolwide literacy plan.
Formal Assessment - Commercially designed and produced tests for elementary, middle & high school levels, given on single occasions.
Informal Assessment - A non-standardized measurement a teacher uses to learn what a student is able to do in a certain area of literacy. The teacher interprets the results and uses those results to plan instruction. (e.g., dialog journal entry, reading response, journal, retellings, running records, checklists, anecdotal records, conferencing).