A lot of students have reading difficulties and need reading support (Mullis et al., 2023). To address this need, the project DaF-L developed a digital screening for students’ reading abilities as well as aligned digital reading support with diagnostics to foster the individual student's reading comprehension. The reading packages were developed for three reading ability levels. The reading packages consist of the same story line for the literary texts and the same exercise formats with some variation depending on the reading ability level. One key importance of the screening and reading packages is digitalization. Digitalization provides a flexible and easy way to provide individualization as well as collect data for diagnostics. The digital reading packages support different ability levels and an individualized learning, where students can work on the exercises at their own speed with integrated tools such as immediate individualized feedback, second try-options, and solutions.
The digital reading packages can be used as a diagnostic tool for formative assessment, which enables teachers to support students in the best way possible.
The screening, as well as the reading packages are accessible as an Open Educational Resource (OER) to support teachers and students. This approach of an individualized digital reading support with diagnostic functionality for formative assessment as an OER is new and exceptional.
The presentation will discuss the conception of the reading packages with focusing on digitalization including the SAMR-Model (Puentedura, 2006), pedagogical usability (Nokelainen, 2006), A Heuristic for Thinking About Reading Comprehension (Kirby, 2003), and formative assessment (OECD, 2005).

Authors:
Judith Hanke, University of Flensburg, Germany
Kirsten Diehl, University of Flensburg, Germany

About the Presenter(s)
Judith Hanke has been a scientific associate at Europa-Universität Flensburg since 2021. Her research and work focuses on inclusive education, reading support, reading strategies, digital learning, formative assessment, and learning analytics.

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