Assessor's Field Notes and the Reading Process
The following data comes from the field notes of four assessors recorded on the Basic Reading Inventory Performance booklet. Data is reported from two assessment periods: first and third. The field notes on the same students are compared. The examples in the tables below compare the assessors' observations on children's reading progress over the duration of the project. Male students are identified by (M) and female students and female students by (F).

Table: 15 Below Grade Level Literacy

Grade Student A (M) Student B (F) Student C (M) Student D (F)
Grade Four
Assessment
  • "I don't know a lot of words," he said.



Estimated reading level: PP
  • read line by line
  • phrasing was poor
  • she was half standing




Estimated reading level: Grade 1
  • struggles with reading
  • frustrations-said "Oh God" quite often
  • weak phonetic awareness

Estimated reading
level: PP
  • read slowly-stopped to sound out words
  • could make up logical answers

Estimated reading
level: P
Grade Five
Assessment
  • "Am I doing OK?
  • Did I get some right"



Estimated reading
level: Grade 1-2
  • she tried extremely hard to sound out words which were unfamiliar to her



Estimated reading
level: Grade 3
  • tried hard but struggles with word attack
  • required assistance


Estimated reading
level: Grade 1
  • Not confident in reading word lists
  • More relaxed when reading stories

Estimated reading
level: Grade 3

Note: P indicates estimated kindergarten level and PP indicates pre-kindergarten level.