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[sykotropic]

Prompted Retelling

At the conclusion of the fairy tale, children will be asked to immediately respond to scripted questions that allow the child to retell the story in their own words.   The purpose of re-telling a story is to assess the child’s understanding.   A scripted retelling is being used based on pilot testing results that indicate

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Comments part 4: Posttests

[cos]

In the scripted re-telling, does the person administering the test have free reign to ask other questions, or are they constrained to ask every child exactly the same set of questions? For example, "The child can describe what the characters look like and how they typically behave" - well, maybe the child can do that, but didn't consider both halves of that (appearance and behavior) to be necessary to answer the question "what is _character_ like?" - so do they get scored based on what the omitted, or does the interviewer prompt them further to see if they can give a more complete answer?

"Each correctly placed picture will scored as correct (1) for a total possible score of 0 to 7"

Is there a standard method of assessing "correctly placed" pictures, that everyone administering this test will know, so they all count the same way? If not, should the method be described here?

Consider, for example, pictures A B C D E F G that belong in that order.
A child places them in order as A D C E F G B.

A is clearly in the right place by any method.
Is C in the right place because it is in position 3, despite the fact that it is out of sequence with respect to both its successor and predecessor?
Are E, F, G in the right place due to being in correct sequence, despite all three being in the wrong position?
Maybe, again, I'm just not familiar with the field, and there's a standard way to score things like this. But if there isn't, it could mean different people scoring in different ways, giving different scores to the same semi-correct sequences of pictures.

"such as such as pencils and notepads." too many such as'es :)