tracking phonological awareness: a research journey
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Tracking Phonological Awareness: A research journey
JOANNE FAULKNER
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
The University of Western Australia
unceremoniously
What are some of the things that happen in your head when you hear this word, so that you can say it again?
blixonasbotumpjoffip
The University of Western Australia
Why measure phonological awareness in pre-primary students?
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How did we measure it originally?
•Repeating words
•Rhyming
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Person item distribution graph
Answers the question:Are the items too hard or too easy for the students we are testing?
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Item location graph
Answers the question:How difficult are the item sets in relation to each other?
Repeating Rhyming
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Easy• Repeatin
g• Rhyming
Medium• Repeatin
g• Rhyming
Difficult Very Difficult
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How do we measure it
now?
•Repeating words •Splitting words•Isolating phonemes
The University of Western Australia
Person item distribution graph
Answers the question:Are the items too hard or too easy for the students we are testing?
The University of Western Australia
Item location graph
Answers the question:How difficult are the item sets in relation to each other?
Repeating Splitting Isolating
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Easy• Repeatin
g
Medium• Splitting
Difficult• Isolating
Very Difficult• ???
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Don’t forget the unexpected anecdotal evidence we always find when working with students!
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We have a created a tool that is
• more robust and detailed
• useful to show the starting point of a student’s phonological awareness
• useful to measure progress in phonological awareness in the first year of formal schooling
• useful for identifying students who may need support in the area of phonological awareness