Join us for this informative and applicable presentation during which our presenter, renown researcher and literacy expert Dr. Barbara Foorman, will share the facts, research, and strategies surrounding using data to inform classroom instruction and guide intervention. As Dr. Foorman explains the use of data to identify strengths and weaknesses in students as they learn to read, she will share the critical nature of informed approaches that help educators truly change student outcomes.

Attendees will learn:

1. What language and reading constructs predict reading success and how they can be measured reliably.
2. The definitions of certain assessment terms (sensitivity/specificity; positive/negative; predictive/predictive power) and how they relate to diagnostic utility.
3. The most-asked questions educators ask about assessment systems.
4. The challenges of assessment—and possible solutions.
5. How data from formative assessment can inform evidence-based literacy practices to differentiate instruction in the classroom and in intervention.
6. Why intervention is necessary beyond additional core curriculum.