[NIFL-ASSESSMENT:1303] RE: Working with Student Goals

From: Marie Cora (marie.cora@hotspurpartners.com)
Date: Thu Oct 27 2005 - 14:45:42 EDT


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Hi folks,

There are a number of great resources on identifying student goals, and
integrating goals into the curriculum in the Adventures in Assessment
series.  You can find these at the LINCS Special Collection in
Assessment at 

http://literacy.kent.edu/Midwest/assessment/
click on Teacher/Tutor and then click the 4th resource listed on that
page. 

The final article in Volume 15, Spring 2003, has an annotated
bibliography of all the articles in the volumes of Adventures that focus
on In-Take and Goal-Setting with Students - there are great descriptions
of processes as well as examples of useful tools.  You can use the
bibliography to point you to the particular articles that may be of
interest to you.  Volume 16 has an article that describes how one
program integrates student goals into its instructional practice.

Also, the Massachusetts' accountability system is based on
student-identified goals.  I will be organizing a guest discussion here
for this fall with the group of folks who train and facilitate around
this effort.  I will send out an announcement to let you all know when
this conversation will be held.  I will also provide links to several
program examples of how they identify and work with student goals.  So
that's coming soon.  You can access the Mass. data system (called the
SMARTT system) and view both the goals sheet and intake form at
http://www.doe.mass.edu/acls/smartt/default.html - scroll down until you
see SMARTT Forms - and click on those two resources.

EFF (Equipped for the Future) is also based entirely on student
identified goals.  EFF was originally developed as a nation-wide effort.
So all of the EFF model (standards, curriculum, assessments, classroom
activities) are based directly on student-identified goals.  You can
find out more info by going to the EFF website and/or joining their
on-line discussion.  Go to:
http://eff.cls.utk.edu/resources/default.htm for more on EFF.

Finally, there was a bit of a discussion in August of this year on this
List regarding student goals.  Go to the archives at
http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/nifl-assessment/assessment.html
Click on Read Posted Messages 2005, and look through the posts from
August entitled "Goal-Setting Anyone" or "Goal-Setting". 

I've no doubt that other states and/or programs work with student-stated
goals.  If you have good ideas and resources to share, we would love to
know about them.

Thanks!

marie cora
Moderator, NIFL Assessment Discussion List, and 
Coordinator/Developer 
LINCS Assessment Special Collection at  
http://literacy.kent.edu/Midwest/assessment/
 
marie.cora@hotspurpartners.com



-----Original Message-----
From: nifl-assessment@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-assessment@nifl.gov] On
Behalf Of Jennifer Lynn Harper
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 1:54 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:1302] Re: Measuring

Yes, I have found a good example.  It's from the California 
Library Literacy Services program.  If you go to this website:
http://www.literacyworks.org/clls
then click What's new
then click May 2005
you will find the roles/goals sheet.  It is in Microsoft word 
format.

Take care,
Jennifer



---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:46:07 -0400 (EDT)
>From: "Kropp, Norm V." <Norm.Kropp@drs.virginia.gov>  
>Subject: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:1300] Re: Measuring Outcomes of 
Literacy  
>To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-
assessment@literacy.nifl.gov>
>
>Does anyone have an example of a goals survey?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nifl-assessment@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-
assessment@nifl.gov] On
>Behalf Of JO PAMMENT
>Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:39 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:1299] Re: Measuring Outcomes of 
Literacy
>
>We also have the students fill out a goals survey at the 
beginning of
>the semester, then repeat it with followup questions during 
the semester
>to let them see what they are doing to fulfill their goals, 
then again
>at the end of th semester to see if they have achieved their 
goals.    
>
>Jo Pamment
>ESL Coordinator
>Haslett Public Schools
>1118 S. Harrison 
>East Lansing, Michigan 48823
>
>TEL:  517 337-8353
>FAX:  517 337-3195
>E-Mail:  pammenjk@haslett.k12.mi.us
>
>>>> au2825@wayne.edu 10/26/05 10:23 PM >>>
>Hello all,
>I'm a current LIS student at Wayne State University in 
>Michigan.  I'm VERY interested in literacy issues.  I'm 
>currently working on an assignment where we have created our 
>own literacy service.  It is fiction.  We will not be 
setting 
>up an actual literacy service, but we need to add certain 
>components to our written proposal: ex. how we will measure 
>outcomes.  
> 
>We are trying to find ways of measuring outcomes.  We 
decided 
>that it is best for literacy students to set their OWN 
>goals.  One way we have decided to measure outcomes is 
>through a goals sheet.  We would ask the students their 
goals 
>in the beginning of the program, and then interview them to 
>find out when they have achieved their goals.  All of this 
>information would be recorded and used as a way of measuring 
>success.
> 
>That is our main way of measuring outcomes.  Do any of you 
>have interesting methods of measuring outcomes in literacy 
>programs that you would be willing to share?
> 
>Thanks in advance,
>Sincerely,
>Jennifer Harper
>JLHarp21@aol.com 
> 
> 
>
>
>
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