Description

 Assessment of Story Comprehension

Identify listening comprehension ability in preschoolers!

A fast and reliable tool to test the comprehension skills of young learners, ages 3-5 years.

Great for progress monitoring too!

Do you love the OPUS – Oral Passage Understanding Scale for your school-age students? The ASC provides similar information for students in Pre-K and Kindergarten. The ASC has 6 forms, each of which include:

• a teacher script with a brief story
• followed by eight literal and inferential comprehension questions
• including one question that asks the child to infer the meaning of a vocabulary word used in the story.

$63.00

 The ASC manual includes

• an introduction to the tool, its development, and its supporting research
• detailed administration guidelines, including sample schedules for administering the ASC
• general and item specific scoring guidelines
• frequently asked scoring questions, including examples of how to score ambiguous responses
• fidelity checklists and guidance on establishing and maintaining reliability
• a guide to interpreting scores, including typical score ranges for children ages 3–4 and 4–5
• two practice sets of materials for use in training examiners

Takes only about 3 minutes to administer and 1 minute to score. ©2019 PPT description ASC At-a Glance ASC Completed Form Sample Introduction to the ASC Overall the ASC was easy to give. The student has to come up with the answer and there are no visuals. I like that the manual has a nice scoring guide in the back to assist in determining HOW to score the student. There are also several examples of scored assessments. The student I assessed today only scored 7 out of 17. The ASC would be a good progress monitoring tool to assess three times a year. This student was unable to make predictions based on the title. She scored 3 points out of 6 on the fact-based questions. She scored 3 out of 6 on the inference questions. She was unable to give a definition of the vocabulary word, even with it used 3x in the text. When given a choice, she was able to determine the meaning of the word. This is a student who is six years old, so it definitely points to some issues. A 5-year-old who scores below 11 should receive intervention based on the manual, and this student scored a 7 and she is six years old! Educational Diagnostician for DHH Students – Texas    Assessment of Story Comprehension Manual Contents Chapter 1: Introduction to the Assessment of Story Comprehension (ASC)   Language and Reading Comprehension   Purposes of the ASC and Curriculum-Based Measurement   Technical Adequacy   Organization of the ASC Manual Chapter 2: Overview of the Assessment of Story Comprehension (ASC)   What Is the ASC?   ASC Stories   ASC Questions Chapter 3: Administering the Assessment of Story Comprehension (ASC)   Qualifications and Training of Examiners   Frequency and Timing of the ASC   Materials and Setting   Building Rapport and Managing Behaviors   Specific Administration Guidelines Chapter 4: Scoring the Assessment of Story Comprehension (ASC)   Terms to Know   General Rules and Scoring Tips   Scoring Tips by Item   Frequently Asked Scoring Questions   Establishing and Maintaining Scoring Reliability   Appendix: Extended Scoring Guides Chapter 5: Using the Results of the Assessment of Story Comprehension (ASC)   Interpretation of ASC scores   Special Populations   Sharing Results   Linking to Intervention Appendix A: Basic Scoring Guides Appendix B: Fidelity Checklists Appendix C: Practice Sets 1 and 2 References Index