ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces a variety of assessments geared toward the receptive modes. Assessment of the receptive modes requires a teacher to dig deeply because these processes occur within the head. Monitoring involves a quick check on a student’s progress by collecting evidence through assessment tools such as a reading log or an interest inventory. Analyzing entails taking a closer, more detailed look at what students know and can do by closely examining the elements of their learning. For the miner, analyzing is like digging for the vein of gold deep below the earth’s surface. Striking it rich takes specialized equipment, hard work, time, and patience. For the teacher, analyzing requires an assessment tool that focuses on breaking down the process of reading, listening, and viewing into elements or components and looking at these in greater detail, then sifting out what students know and what they need to learn next.
