Friday, December 14, 2012

Reflective Journal Entry 6


Amanda Lilly

Ms. Albanese

MAS 7998

December 13, 2012

Journal Entry #6

(Post-Assessment)

Observation
Reflection
Questions Raised/ Answers Attempted
During the administering of the BRI post-assessment Josh was nervous and read quietly at the beginning because he figured out that he was being videotaped. After he knew the videotaping was complete he went back to attempting to speed through the reading passages and emphasize voice inflections while reading. He was able to sit still more, but he started to give up towards the end of the BRI because he said he doesn’t like to read long passages. Also when he came across words he didn’t know he would ask for help first then attempt to sound it out, but would give up and say pass. I noticed that during the word lists he would still mispronounce some of the words, but the words he mispronounced didn’t even have the same letters present as the words on the word lists. I also observed that during his reading passages he made more significant miscues by changing some of the words read, which changed the meaning of what was being said.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I think if there was more time and if Josh was available more days we could have spread the BRI out a couple of days, but due to time constraints we had to complete it in one day. I don’t think Josh was having a very good day and was exhausted by this whole process, not giving his best effort. This could have affected some of the overall results because his pre-assessment results were similar to these post-assessment results.
Q: Did the videotaping affect his results for that reading passage that was videotaped?
 
A: I think it affected the results slightly, but not enough to show that there was major evidence the videotaping caused him to not read as well.
 
Q: Why would he always look at me when he didn’t know what a word was?
 
A: I think this is a learned behavior that he would expect someone to help him get to the answer than try to figure it out on his own first.

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