Full Description
Morphological awareness—the ability to recognize, understand, and consciously use the smallest units of meaning in a word—is one of the most important skills for literacy development. For use with students in Grades 1-6, MATRS™ is a comprehensive, reliable, and valid assessment tool for evaluating the morphological awareness skills that strongly predict concurrent and future reading and spelling abilities.
With this manual, users will:
Get a detailed overview of the development and benefits of MATRS
Learn how to administer MATRS accurately and efficiently
Score MATRS and interpret the scores for various populations
Provide results to other professionals and students' parents
Learn from three MATRS case studies and see how the assessment data informed what the examiner did next
Review the technical information behind the development of MATRS
Concise and comprehensive, this manual will help special educators, school psychologists, reading specialists, and other professionals use MATRS to accurately identify students with morphological awareness deficits and plan differentiated literacy instruction and intervention.
Contents
Manual Contents
About the Authors
About the Downloads
Preface
Chapter 1: Overview of MATRS and Its Value
What is Morphological Awareness?
Background to MATRS
Overview of MATRS
Development of MATRS
Chapter 2: MATRS Tasks and Administration
Conceptual Model for MATRS
Preparing to Administer MATRS
Administering MATRS
MATRS Tasks
Chapter 3: MATRS Scoring, Interpretation, and Follow Up
Scoring MATRS
Considerations When Scoring MATRS
Additional Review of Students' Responses
Providing MATRS Results to Others
Chapter 4: What's Next: Case Studies/Student Profiles
Case 1: Nicole
Case 2: Connor
Case 3: Gage
Chapter 5: Research and Psychometric Data
Item Development Prior to Studies
Participants
Other Measures Administered
Procedures Across All Years of Item Calibration and Task Validation
Data Analysis and Results: Item Calibration Studies
Data Analysis and Results: Task Validation Studies
Results
References
Appendix A: Task Keys: Version A
Appendix B: Task Keys: Version B
Appendix C: Conversion of Raw Scores to Standard Scores and Percentiles
Index
