Utilizing Transdisciplinary Affix Knowledge and Hebegogical Content Knowledge: Matching Adolescent Students to Text

Workshop Presentation
Enrique A. Puig,  Elsie Lindy Olan  

During this highly interactive multimedia session, participants will engage in professional learning conversations on understanding how adolescent students process transdisciplinary knowledge and how to improve transdisciplinary literacy learning with the goal of supporting students as global citizens to solve real world issues. Novel assessment, emerging empirical research and results will be shared that will demonstrate the potential correlation between adolescent students knowledge of transdisciplinary affixes and approximate reading levels to improve transdisciplinary literacy learning and instruction. Four years in the making, the newly developed Test of Prefixes and Suffixes (ToPS) will be shared as an alternative to matching adolescent students to texts to improve instruction for all students. Utilizing high school, middle school, and intermediate elementary grade students, ToPS was administered to over 1,500 students and then correlated to students approximate reading level as determined through standardized assessments and teacher knowledge. All assessments and development will be shared during the session.