Megan Zara, M. Ed.
An adaptive expert uses informal observations, discussions, and hunches to evaluate students’ needs and make decisions regarding those needs. During the second lesson with my practicum student, Caleb, we worked on noticing when we did not understand what we were reading and applying fix-up strategies.
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READ 5463 Assessment Profile
In order to evaluate Caleb's needs , I analyzed the miscues that Caleb made while reading passages within the Qualitative Reading Inventory-5 (2010),
spoke to him about his strategy of rereading when he
does not understand what he reads, and listened to him read in our first lesson. Based on my knowledge of assessment and evaluation, I knew that he often did not realize when he missed something important or when he needed to stop for clarification. This was evident in his QRI-5 results; 44% of Caleb’s miscues within the Qualitative Reading Inventory were meaning-changing, and he only self-corrected 50% of those miscues. In addition, I noted that Caleb rarely stopped to reread text that did not make sense to him.