FAQ: PROBE GREY & BLUE
PROBE BLUE is a revised upgraded PROBE2
Apart from a few minor alterations, the forty fiction and non-fiction stories are the same.
IMPROVEMENTS
PROBE BLUE MANUAL
• Page layout changes
• Revised and upgraded Guide – content & layout
Significant changes:
• More comprehensive taxonomy notes
• More comprehensive notes with answers
• More consistent format of notes with answers
PROBE BLUE STUDENT TEXTS book
• Page design changes
• More student friendly text – changes to font and layout
Designed to be a companion to PROBE Grey
Purchase separately or as a companion set
PROBE GREY is an all new assessment resource - forty new fiction and non-fiction stories.
Designed to be a companion to PROBE Grey
They are parallel resources and can be used interchangeably.
The forty fiction and non-fiction texts in PROBE GREY have the same number of words as the corresponding texts in its BLUE companion.
PROBE BLUE itself is a revised, upgraded and rebranded version of PROBE 2
Purchase separately or as a companion set
PURCHASING
PROBE is only sold to recognised educational institutions and educational specialists - such as support/resource teachers, advisers, speech pathologists and psychologists.They are only to be used for legitimate assessment purposes, i.e. not as a teaching/upskilling resource.
It is not an 'additional' set of stories.
The PROBE Supplementary kit is the same as the PROBE Reading Comprehension Assessment kit, but has NO copymasters. It was produced to allow schools with a limited budget to have multiple PROBE Reading Comprehension Assessment kits at a more affordable price.
RECOGNISED SCHOOLS ONLY
The school must have at least one full PROBE kit.
Can only be used within the one school/campus.
NO
Option 4: Written Assessment For secondary/high school students or adults (only) is no longer supported by Triune Initiatives.
Individual components cannot be purchased. However, replacement parts can (because of damage or loss). Proof of previous purchase may be required.
WHAT CAN AND CANNOT BE COPIED
YOU CAN COPY
PART 4: Copymasters
However, copies can only be made (directly) from copymasters in a legally purchased PROBE manual.
NO copies of copies.
YOU CANNOT COPY
PART 1: Guide
PART 2: Determiner
PART 3: Answers
The Student Texts book
IT IS ILLEGAL TO:
1. reformat any part of this resource
2. alter the texts or questions
3. add any illustrations
4. digitally reproduce all or any part of this resource.
NO
YOU CANNOT COPY any part of the Student Texts book
GENERAL USE OF PROBE
THE CREATORS OF PROBE
Chris Parkin, Catherine Parkin & Barnaby Parkin
Triune Initiatives (Wellington, NZ)
