Week 3: Assignment #3

·       What is QRI5?

The Qualitative Reading Inventory-5 (QRI5) is an individually administered informal reading inventory (IRI) designed to provide information about (1) conditions under which students can identify words and comprehend text successfully and (2) conditions that appear to result in unsuccessful word identification or comprehension.

·       What is the purpose of using QRI5?

 QRI5 is used for a number of things such as  estimating student reading levels, documenting students’ growth, helping with designing and evaluating student instruction, choosing appropriate book for literacy activities, or assessing students’ reading comprehension, which can be done through either retelling, questioning, look-backs, and think-alouds . Teachers also use QRI5 when the purpose of the assessment is to focus on the individual and to be informal rather than standardized and norm-referenced. The results will be based solely on the individual student being assessed and his or her continuous progress and not based or compared to any other student or group of students.

·       Have you seen similar assessment activities like QRI5? What are they?

From what I understood, it seems the running record can be placed in a similar  category as QRI5, as it is also individually administered to the student, and not based on other students’ performance. It also consists of a student reading a passage but there are significant differences in the way it is administered and graded, and the goals of the assessments are varied as well.

·       What is your impression of QRI5?

      I find it be fairly simple yet extremely effective and it really allows the teacher to get a picture of both the student’s ability to read different types of text, identify independent, instructional, or frustration levels for comprehension and more.