Project MDD - monitoring the results - 1st measurments summary

1. Monitoring the
results
Quantitative and qualitative indicators of achievement
First survey at the beginning of the project

2. We used the test formatting and the frame of the
program for international student evaluation PISA
for measuring students’ literacy.
The PISA definition of reading literacy was as follows:
 Reading literacy is understanding, using, reflecting on and engaging
with written texts, in order to achieve one’s goals, to develop one’s
knowledge and potential, and to participate in society.
 The study include a focus group of 147 students from each school
participating in the project, which is 25% of the number of
participants who we have included in the application form.
 Age: 8 to 13 years. Use primary and secondary level or in transitional
age between the two levels, in order to follow their progress during
the two-year period. Diversity would be useful for the scope of the
study.

3. Research of reading skills
 International study of reading skills measures the ability of students to understand
the content of the various texts using a set of mental processes. It focuses on two
main objectives in the reading of students in and out of school:
• Reading comprehension
• Extracting and use of information
 These objectives determine the choice of texts included in the study, each has the
characteristics of a typical text for one of the two objectives. Each of the objectives
related to four different cognitive processes:
• Searching and extraction of certain information
• Displaying conclusions
• Interpretation and summarizing of ideas and information
• Analysis and evaluation of the content, language and text structure

4. Statistics by age

5. Gender

6. Spoken language in the family

7. First module: Reading comprehension of a fictional text
 6 multiple choice
questions associated
with understanding of
the text
 Each correct answer is
1 point
 3 open-ended
questions (indication of
cause, giving evidence,
making conclusions,
summarizing ideas)
 Evaluation: 0, 1 or 2
points
 Total number of points
in first module: 12 .

8. Second module: a nonfiction text - an article
 4 multiple choice
questions associated with
understanding of the text
 Each correct answer is 1
point
 3 open-ended questions
indication of cause, giving
evidence, making
conclusions, summarizing
ideas)
 Evaluation: 0, 1 or 2
points
 Total number of points in
second module: 10.

9. Third module - extracting information from tables and diagrams
 4 multiple choice
questions associated
with understanding of
the text
 Each correct answer
is 1 point
 2 open-ended
questions indication of
cause, giving
evidence, making
conclusions,
summarizing ideas)
 Evaluation: 0, 1 or 2
points
 Total number of points
in third module: 8 p.

10. Analysis and summarizing of the results:
1 А Indistinguishable result of that
expected to get at guessing
(0 to 6 points)
1 В Does not cover the requirements
(7 to 9 points)
2 А Borderline - covers / does not cover
requirements
(10 to 12 points)
2 В Covering the requirements
(13 to 18 points)
2 С Borderline - covers/exceeds
requirements (19 to 24 points)
3 Exceeds requirements
(25 to 30 points)
 The total number of points from the test
for assessing the functional literacy of
the students is 30.
 The results are applied in Excel chart
with the following columns:
 Names of the student, gender, age,
language spoken in the family, Special
Educational Needs (SEN) - 3
 Detailed presenting of the resulting
points in each module
 Total points
 In which group the student falls
according to the table

11. In which group the student falls according to the table
 118 students show result
Borderline - covers / exceeds
requirements and Exceeds
requirements.
 These results show an
excellent basis on which
project teams can build new
knowledge and improve skills
of the students.
 We can deepen the work of
nonfiction texts and extracting
information from tables and
diagrams.

12. When reporting the project in 2018 it will be important
to prove the progress of the students in mathematical
way through numbers, graphs and statistics.
 We prepared a portfolio for each student from the focus group, that will store the
three tests carried out during the project.
 In the folder we store and evidence of personal achievements of the participants -
certificates of participation in project activities, questionnaires related to their reading
habits and participation in mobility, their works: essays, paintings, articles for the
digital newspaper, comics etc.
 Students may be offered to keep ,,Reading diary“ in which to record the books they
have read, their author, characters, notes for story etc.
 The tables with summarized results of the pupils will be kept by the coordinator and
will be presented at the intermediate and final report of the project as evidence of the
progress that students achieved by participating in project activities.

13. Project 2016-1-RO01-KA219 – 024444
,,Movere , docere, delectare through Reading”
This project has been funded with support
from the European Commission.
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March 2017