One of the factors that can make it difficult to get your Reading Counts program going is the cost of buying the quizzes. You will need a lot of them. Currently, my school has 2,850 quizzes but 33% of the kids still say that there isn’t enough choice for them when they are browsing in the library (we have 212 kids enrolled in the program). It can be very frustrating for a kid to find a book she wants only to discover it’s not RC.
We have two ways of dealing with this problem. The first is to let the kid write a book report on non-RC books to get points. The second is to constantly build the size of our quiz library. In general, I would say you need at least 10 quizzes on books in your library for each child you enroll in your program. If you have 225 kids, you will need, at a minimum, 2,250 quiz titles. At $2.50 a quiz that can turn into a significant expenditure.
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Hi, Mat. Do you remember your question on my blog? The answers are the following:
The participants for my action research were 34 elementary school students at a local language institute. This institute classifies students’ language proficiency through a diagnostic test (e.g., level 2; American school 2nd year, level 5; U.S. 5th year). As you know this is STAR reading test (http:// www.renlearn.com: Renaissance Learning) presents each student’s scaled score, grade equivalent, percentile rank, instructional reading level, and zone of proximal development. Of my students, 7 were 1st grade, 5 were 2nd, 13 were 3rd, 3 were 4th, 3 were 5th and 3 were 6th grade. (Just visit the participant & setting section which I posted.)
Thanks, Mat.
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