Comprehension Assessment A Classroom Guide

by Caldwell, JoAnne Schudt

• ISBN13: 9781593857073
• ISBN10: 1593857071
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-09
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

How can busy teachers successfully manage the complex task of assessing their students' reading comprehension? This invaluable book--the first stand-alone guide on the topic--presents reliable, research-supported guidelines and procedures for K-6 teachers to use in the classroom. Through practical tips and realistic examples, the book demonstrates time-saving ways to implement and adapt a wide range of existing assessments, rather than creating new ones. Also covered are strategies for conducting multiliteracy assessments, using classroom assessment to complement standardized testing, accommodating response-to-intervention mandates, and linking assessment to content-area instruction.

Author Biography

JoAnne Schudt Caldwell, PhD, is a Professor at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is presently the Associate Dean of the College of Education and Leadership. Dr. Caldwell is coauthor, with Lauren Leslie, of The Qualitative Reading Inventory 4, an informal reading inventory, and Intervention Strategies to Follow Informal Reading Inventory Assessment: So What Do I Do Now? She is also an author of Reading Problems: Assessment and Teaching Strategies, with Joyce Holt Jennings and Janet W. Lerner.

Table of Contents

Defining Comprehension: A Difficult Task	p. 1
Defining Assessment: A Four-Step Process	p. 22
Assessing Comprehension: What, How, and for What Purpose	p. 34
Questions: Promises and Pitfalls	p. 55
Open-Ended Assessments: Powerful but Problematic	p. 79
Look Who's Talking: Assessing Comprehension through Student Dialogue	p. 103
Words! Words! Words!: How Can We Assess Word Comprehension?	p. 127
Comprehension Assessment Proxies: Stand-Ins, Not Stars	p. 146
Grading Practices: Taking a New Look at Grading Comprehension	p. 162
Measuring Comprehension through Standardized Tests: An Oxymoron?	p. 174
Using Classroom Comprehension Assessment as a Counterpart to Standardized Assessment: A Possibility or a Pipedream?	p. 191
Glossary	p. 201
Guidelines	p. 207
References	p. 211
Index	p. 221
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