Assessment of Story Comprehension Manual
Assessment of Story Comprehension Manual
Authors
Trina D. Spencer, Ph.D., BCBA-D, Howard Goldstein, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
This manual provides detailed guidance on administering and scoring the ASC and utilizing results.
Overview
Listening comprehension during shared storybook reading is a foundational skill—and an indicator that children are ready for the language demands of kindergarten. With the Assessment of Story Comprehension (ASC™), pre-K programs finally have a fast, easy way to measure the story comprehension of children ages 3–5, identify children who may need language intervention, monitor progress, and determine when comprehension has meaningfully improved. A quick check that takes just 3 minutes to complete, the ASC is the sensitive, reliable tool that programs need to test the comprehension skills of all young learners and pick up even small improvements as the school year progresses.
Your comprehensive guide to the ASC, this 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
Product Details
| STOCK NUMBER | ISBN |
|---|---|
| 52377 | 978-1-68125-237-7 |
| COPYRIGHT | PAGES |
| 2019 | 144 |
| AVAILABILITY | |
| Available Stock |
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Reviews
Timothy Shanahan, Ph.D., Chair, National Early Literacy Panel, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago - July 30, 2018
"Finally, a reliable standardized listening comprehension assessment for use in preschool and kindergarten. Now teachers can not only easily monitor early phonological and alphabet skills, but important language abilities, too. The ASC™ is an essential addition to the classroom prereading screening battery."
Anne Van Kleeck, Ph.D., Professor and Callier Research Scholar, The University of Texas at Dallas - July 24, 2018
"The ASC™ is a unique, state-of-the-art, engaging, solidly evidence-based, and psychometrically very well designed assessment tool for regularly monitoring preschoolers' progress in story comprehension—a foundational skill for later reading comprehension—to determine if they need supplemental language intervention."
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ASC At-a-Glance
Read an excerpt
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Assessment of Story Comprehension
See a sample ASC form
ASC Completed Form Sample
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