{"id":33,"date":"2020-01-11T14:04:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T21:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cwgtest\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2024-02-28T14:27:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T21:27:46","slug":"cwg-test","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cwgtest\/cwg-test\/","title":{"rendered":"CWG test"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>How to take the test<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Have learners complete the test by clicking this link: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/cwgtest1\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/cwgtest1<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Enter a <strong>name<\/strong> (or pseudonym)<\/li>\n<li>Enter an <strong>email address<\/strong> that will receive the results (typically the teacher&#8217;s email address)<\/li>\n<li>Press &#8216;<strong>Next<\/strong>&#8216;<\/li>\n<li>The learner\u00a0 silently <strong>reads each sentence <\/strong>&amp;<strong> clicks on the picture<\/strong> that best matches the grammatical meaning of the sentence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>How to interpret the results of the test<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Receive an email<\/strong> with the results showing each item that the learner selected in error<\/li>\n<li>Compare the results of incorrect items to the record form and grammar structures<\/li>\n<li>Look at the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cwgtest\/resources\/\">Interpreting Results<\/a>&#8216; and &#8216;Teaching Strategies&#8217; pages to gather ideas for next steps in instruction (under development)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Purpose of the test<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Comprehension of Written Grammar<\/em><\/span> (<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>CWG<\/em><\/span>; Easterbrooks &amp; Cannon, 2019) test is designed to document a struggling reader&#8217;s ability to read sentences written in targeted grammatical contexts<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Theoretical basis<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Based on Chomsky\u2019s Minimalist Program Functional &amp; Lexical categories (Chomsky, 2005)<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Test structure<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>52 items &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cwgtest\/files\/2020\/01\/CWG-Record-Form_2019.pdf\">CWG Record Form_2019<\/a> of all test items<\/li>\n<li>Sentences are written in targeted grammatical contexts<\/li>\n<li>26 Grammatical Structures assessed<\/li>\n<li>Each structure is assessed twice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Reference<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Easterbrooks, S. R. &amp; Cannon, J. E. (2019). <em>Comprehension of written grammar<\/em> test [Online, open access assessment]. Retrieved from <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/cwgtest1\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/cwgtest1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to take the test Have learners complete the test by clicking this link: http:\/\/bit.ly\/cwgtest1 Enter a name (or pseudonym) Enter an email address that will receive the results (typically the teacher&#8217;s email address) Press &#8216;Next&#8216; The learner\u00a0 silently reads &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cwgtest\/cwg-test\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62853,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cwgtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cwgtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cwgtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cwgtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cwgtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cwgtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cwgtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cwgtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}