Transcript Reading Components LAMP UIS Cardoso

UNESCO Institute for Statistics
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Reading Components in LAMP
(Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Programme)
Manuel Cardoso
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Emerging readers take the Reading
Components assessment
Background
Questionnaire
<=7
Locator
(PDN)
Reading
Components
Filter (17 PDN* items)
>=8
Booklet 1 or 2
(PDN)
*PDN stands for Prose, Documents, and Numeracy, the three domains of LAMP
Reading Components Exercises
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Vocabulary
Digit naming
Rapid digit naming
Lowercase letter naming
Uppercase letter naming
Rapid letter naming (lowercase)
Word recognition (high frequency words; lowercase)
Rapid word recognition (same as previous)
Decoding (rare words; non-words)
Rapid decoding (same as previous)
Sentence processing (oral reading; silent reading, timed)
Passage fluency (oral reading; silent reading, timed)
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Examples of profiles
Non-readers are unable to identify one fifth of the
letters in their alphabet.
 Incipient letter readers identify between 1/5 and ½
of the letters in their alphabet.
 Developing letter readers identify more than half of
the letters in their alphabet.
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“Incipient” and “Developing” categories are then applied to
other skills such as sentence comprehension and text
comprehension
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