Results

Abstract

The 8th grade students in Carteret Middle School have been working on their reading comprehension skills throughout the year. The language arts teachers were looking for a way to track individual student progress. The initial assessment was completely paper based. In October students were asked to take a practice version of the NJASK to simulate the testing that occurs at the end of the year. The average score in the classroom was 23.7/30. Over the past few months we have worked with our students and gone over a variety of reading comprehension strategies including, textual evidence, interpreting, and analyzing. On December 12th, the students once again took a practice NJASK test. This one was given in our school's computer lab. The results of the quiz were immediately accessible to the teachers and we were able to analyze each question to see where our student's strengths and weaknesses lie. We noticed that the students are still struggling with context clues (see #'s 5 & 6 below). We will now take this information and create lessons that emphasize context clues in reading comprehension.

Below are the results from the Reading Comprehension quiz. Names have been omitted to keep student information confidential.