Clare Landrigan > Quotes

“It would really help us if you could all agree on one tool to assess Letter Identification, Concepts about Print, and Sight Words.”
― Clare Landrigan, Assessment in Perspective: Focusing on the Readers Behind the Numbers

“If we are using a running record as a pre-assessment to look backward and assess what the reader already knows, then the running record is diagnostic.”
― Clare Landrigan, Assessment in Perspective: Focusing on the Readers Behind the Numbers

“Assessment should not be about defining a reader but about piecing together information to help us design classroom experiences so we can observe our readers learning and understand what each one needs.”
― Clare Landrigan, Assessment in Perspective: Focusing on the Readers Behind the Numbers

“Pearson and Gallagher are the researchers who developed the gradual release of responsibility model of instruction (1983). The model gives us several opportunities for collecting assessment data during instruction.”
― Clare Landrigan, Assessment in Perspective: Focusing on the Readers Behind the Numbers

“Carol Ann Tomlinson is the educator who first pushed us to think about the range of learners in our classroom, shift our thinking around assessment, and differentiate our instruction.”
― Clare Landrigan, Assessment in Perspective: Focusing on the Readers Behind the Numbers

“Jean Piaget was the first psychologist to complete a systematic study of cognitive development. He introduced us to the idea that children are not simply “miniature adults” but actually think in very different ways.”
― Clare Landrigan, Assessment in Perspective: Focusing on the Readers Behind the Numbers

“If we use a running record at the end of a marking period or instructional unit to measure the level of success, competency, or proficiency that has been obtained at the end of this instructional phase and compare a student’s score against some standard or benchmark, then it is summative.”
― Clare Landrigan, Assessment in Perspective: Focusing on the Readers Behind the Numbers

“The Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System measures accuracy, comprehension, and fluency. (There are also assessments in the system that measure phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, and disposition.)”
― Clare Landrigan, Assessment in Perspective: Focusing on the Readers Behind the Numbers

“When the cook tastes the soup, that’s formative: when the guests taste the soup, that’s summative.”
― Clare Landrigan, Assessment in Perspective: Focusing on the Readers Behind the Numbers