PD Tracker vs LEST

The Professional Development Tracker App is a fast, simple and timely way for teachers to track their professional learning and development and it's now FREE! With PD Tracker on your phone or tablet you have the convenience of being able to enter professional learning on the go, anywhere, anytime. Enter activities in advance, add photos and notes during throughout and then finish up whenever you have time. PD Tracker makes it easy to ensure your records are up to date. PD Tracker helps Australian teachers to align professional learning to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers categories and proficiency levels. Your professional learning hours are automatically collated, enabling you to monitor your key learning areas, and even set personal learning goals. With PD Tracker you can: * Enter basic details about your activity in advance * Add an unlimited number of photos as evidence * Provide comments and reflection on each activity and each piece of evidence for maximum value and relevance. * Be automatically reminded to complete each activity that still needs reflection or evidence entered * Align your activity to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers categories and proficiency levels * Set the level of proficiency at which each activity covered a given standard * See at a glance your total PD hours * See a breakdown of your hours based on focus areas to help you decide where to focus your efforts. * Backup all your data to the cloud! Never lose your data again. We backup to your own dropbox account and you can easily backup and restore onto a new phone or ipad at any time. You always have a copy of all your data * Generate a PDF report of your activity for submission! Our Terms of Use & Privacy Policy: http://www.pdtrackerapp.com/privacy Download PD Tracker now!

The Letter Sound Test (LeST) tests a person’s ability to sound out single letters and letter combinations.  - Run a LeST test session in under 10 minutes. - Automated percentile and z-score calculations for graphemes. - Practice marking before you buy. - Hear correct pronunciations of all the letter-sound combinations before you buy. More about the LeST: In order to be able to sound out words, we need to know which sound a letter or letter combination corresponds to. The LeST evaluates which letter(s) a person can sound out in isolation (i.e., not in the context of a word or nonword).  The LeST is a simple reading aloud task and contains 51 graphemes (single letters and letter combinations). This test can be administered to individual students. At the end of the test, the tester gets an overview of the grapheme a reader can sound out in isolation. The tester may then decide to train the letter-sound-correspondences for the letters that the reader could not sound out correctly. This app has been developed from the LeST literacy assessment tool created by Macquarie University Centre for Reading.