2017
DOI: 10.1002/rrq.181
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Addressing Inadequacies of the Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement

Abstract: The authors used nationally based, random sample data from three different years (2009–2010, 2011–2012, and 2014–2015) for nearly 20,000 first‐grade students (n = 9,760, 3,657, and 3,121, respectively) to examine long‐reported inadequacies of a commonly used early literacy assessment tool, the Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement (OSELA), chief among them the skewness and nonequal interval nature of the scores that are obtained on its six individual tasks. Such inadequacies prevented the individual… Show more

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“…The distribution of scores on the tasks varies to a great extent both between and within tasks and at different times during the first‐grade school year. A developmental (or vertical) scale based on all six task scores, known as the total score, has been developed so it is more normally distributed throughout first grade (see D'Agostino, ).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The distribution of scores on the tasks varies to a great extent both between and within tasks and at different times during the first‐grade school year. A developmental (or vertical) scale based on all six task scores, known as the total score, has been developed so it is more normally distributed throughout first grade (see D'Agostino, ).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…At this point, the indicator of early literacy values is attached to the kawih. One in eight of the strategies that can be done to build early literacy is by providing activities that increase children's awareness [4], [6], [8], [9]. From the sound of language or that words consist of the smallest unit of sound, namely the alphabet [7], [8], [10].…”
Section: Jampé-jampé Harupat Jampé-jampé Harupat Geura Gedé Geura Lumpatmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Early literacy will provide initial literacy abilities that cover several points, some of which are as follows: Very clear early literacy values in kakawihan can be identified in kawihs which have lyrics with rhyming patterns. One of out of the 8 early literacy strategies revealed in the article explained that efforts to build early literacy could be done by providing activities that increase children's awareness of the sound of language or that words consist of the smallest sound units, namely the alphabet [3], [5], [6], [8]- [10]. These activities include playing games and listening to stories, reciting poems, and songs that involve poetry, identifying words that end with the same sound [6], [11]- [13].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Listening well requires attention, thought, reasoning, interpretation, and imagination of listeners. Listeners must project themselves into the speaker's mind and try to understand not only what the speaker says, but also the message that they intended [15], [17], [18].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%