Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

EDEM 3338 Reading Assessment

This course is designed to provide future classroom teachers with knowledge of reading- related problems and their causes and to develop their abilities to use instructional strategies appropriately. Emphasis is placed on informal diagnosis and interpretation of reading abilities based on individual case studies and implications for classroom settings. There will be 15 hours of directed field experiences embedded into this course. A pre-service certificate is required for this course.

Registration Name

Reading Assessment

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Credits

3

Prerequisite

EDEM 3331

Corequisite

EDUC 1199

Offered

Athens/Demorest: Fall and Spring

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Describe reasons for reading difficulties.
  2. Identify research-based teaching strategies which embed formative literacy assessment. 
  3. Administer an informal reading inventory.
  4. Use quantitative and qualitative testing procedures, both print and digital, to measure reading performance and abilities. 
  5. Use data from qualitative and quantitative tools to design a three-day lesson for a single student.