Assessing Reading : International Perspectives on Reading Assessment

by Harrison,Colin

• ISBN13: 9780415148931
• ISBN10: 0415148936
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book, along with its companion volume,Assessing Reading 2: Classroom Innovation, was conceived as the major outcome from an international seminar on reading assessment held in England. It focuses particularly on theoretical and methodological issues, though with a clear series of links to practices in assessment. Special attention is directed toward state and national approaches to classroom-based assessment in the USA, the UK and in Australia, at both primary and secondary levels. Chapters offer new perspectives on the theories behind the development and interpretation of reading assessments, national assessments and classroom-based assessment, significantly broadening the scope of the current discussion and challenging the compartmentalization of these assessment practices. level; these texts explore different aspects of the issues involved. The first book in this series focuses particularly on theoretical and methodological issues, though with a clear series of links to practices inassessment. It deals especially with state and national approaches to classroom-based assessment at primary and secondary levels, both domestic and international. The theories and assumptions underpinning new approaches to reading assessment are discussed, along with a description of new approaches.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Contributors	viii
Introduction	ix
Colin Harrison
Terry Salinger
PART I Theories and assumptions underpinning reading assessment
Responsive reading assessment: is postmodern assessment of reading possible?	1	(20)
Colin Harrison
Mary Bailey
Alan Dewar
Ten dilemmas of performance assessment	21	(29)
P. David Pearson
Lizanne Destefano
Georgia Earnest Garcia
Feminist poststructuralist perspectives on the language of reading assessment: authenticity and performance	50	(13)
Donna E. Alvermann
Michelle Commeyras
PART II What are the new approaches, and what are they attempting to achieve?
Australian perspectives on the assessment of reading: can a national approach to literacy assessment be daring and progressive?	63	(21)
Paul Brock
Assessing reading in the English National Curriculum	84	(12)
Sue Horner
The national assessment of reading in the USA	96	(14)
Terry Salinger
Jay Campbell
New emphasis on old principles: the need for clarity of purpose and of assessment method in national testing and for national monitoring	110	(12)
Greg Brooks
Curriculum-based assessment of reading in England and Wales: a national pilot study	122	(14)
Denis Vincent
Colin Harrison
Taking a closer look: a Scottish perspective on reading assessment	136	(16)
Louise Hayward
Ernie Spencer
Using direct evidence to assess student progress: how the Primary Language Record supports teaching and learning	152	(14)
Beverly Falk
Challenging the assessment context for literacy instruction in first grade: a collaborative study	166	(16)
James Hoffman
Nancy Roser
Jo Worthy
Consequential validity of an early literacy portfolio: the `backwash' of reform	182	(23)
Terry Salinger
Index	205