Assessment of Story Comprehension – ASC

Assessment of Story Comprehension Identify listening comprehension ability in preschoolers! A fast and reliable tool to test the comprehension skills of young learners, ages 3-5 years. Great for progress monitoring too! Do you love the OPUS – Oral Passage Understanding Scale for your school-age students? The ASC provides similar information for students in Pre-K and Kindergarten. The ASC has 6 forms, each of which include: a teacher script with a brief story followed by eight literal and inferential comprehension questions including one question that asks the child to infer the meaning of a vocabulary word used in the story. $63.00  The ASC manual includes an introduction to the tool, its development, and its supporting research detailed administration guidelines, including sample schedules for administering the ASC general and item specific scoring guidelines frequently asked scoring questions, including examples of how to score ambiguous responses fidelity checklists and guidance on establishing and maintaining reliability a guide to interpreting scores, including typical score ranges for children ages 3–4 and 4–5 two practice sets of materials for use in training examiners Takes only about 3 minutes to administer and 1 minute to score. ©2019 Overall the ASC was easy to give. The student has to come up with the answer and there are no visuals. I like that the manual has a nice scoring guide in the back to assist in determining HOW to score the student. There are also several examples of scored assessments. The student I assessed today only scored 7 out of 17. The ASC would be a good progress monitoring tool to assess three times a year. This student was unable to make predictions based on the title. She scored 3 points out of 6 on the fact-based questions. She scored 3 out of 6 on the inference questions. She was unable to give a definition of the vocabulary word, even with it used 3x in the text. When given a choice, she was able to determine the meaning of the word. This is a student who is six years old, so it definitely points to some issues. A 5-year-old who scores below 11 should receive intervention based on the manual, and this student scored a 7 and she is six years old! Educational Diagnostician for DHH Students – Texas  Assessment of Story Comprehension Manual Contents Chapter 1: Introduction to the Assessment of Story Comprehension (ASC)   Language and Reading Comprehension   Purposes of the ASC and Curriculum-Based Measurement   Technical Adequacy   Organization of the ASC Manual Chapter 2: Overview of the Assessment of Story Comprehension (ASC)   What Is the ASC?   ASC Stories   ASC Questions Chapter 3: Administering the Assessment of Story Comprehension (ASC)   Qualifications and Training of Examiners   Frequency and Timing of the ASC   Materials and Setting   Building Rapport and Managing Behaviors   Specific Administration Guidelines Chapter 4: Scoring the Assessment of Story Comprehension (ASC)   Terms to Know   General Rules and Scoring Tips   Scoring Tips by Item   Frequently Asked Scoring Questions   Establishing and Maintaining Scoring Reliability   Appendix: Extended Scoring Guides Chapter 5: Using the Results of the Assessment of Story Comprehension (ASC)   Interpretation of ASC scores   Special Populations   Sharing Results   Linking to Intervention Appendix A: Basic Scoring Guides Appendix B: Fidelity Checklists Appendix C: Practice Sets 1 and 2 References Index