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FAST-R, the Formative Assessments of Student Thinking in Reading, are short, low-stakes assessments that provide information on students’ strengths and weaknesses in two English/Language Arts (ELA) areas: finding evidence and making inferences. More than fifty FAST-R assessments have been created for grades 2-12. Each contains a passage followed by ten multiple-choice questions that assess students’ close reading and inferential thinking skills. [See sample assessment.] The passages reflect a variety of genres, styles, and authors; some have been used on MCAS while others were selected because they were particularly rich, high-interest, accessible, or challenging. Each question set comes with a scoring guide designed to help teachers analyze the intellectual work readers must do to comprehend the passage, understand what students may have been thinking as they chose correct or incorrect answer choices, and begin planning instruction in response. After administering a FAST-R assessment, teachers receive a variety of user-friendly data reports. These are organized to make it quick and easy for teachers to spot meaningful patterns, give students feedback, and plan instructional responses to the insights they gain from the data.
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