Understanding and Using Reading Assessment, K–12

by Afflerbach, Peter P.

• ISBN13: 9780872075856
• ISBN10: 0872075850
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-07
• Publisher: Intl Literacy Assn

Summary

Never has there been a more promising time for the development and use of effective reading assessment. Yet this promise is challenged by the frenzy of testing that threatens to change classroom teaching and assessment into a narrow, mechanistic approach to schooling.

Author Biography

Peter Afflerbach is Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

Table of Contents

About The Author	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Important Issues and Concepts in Reading Assessment	p. 1
Reading Assessment Snapshot: Task Analysis	p. 26
Reading Inventories	p. 27
Reading Assessment Snapshot: Formative and Summative Assessment	p. 49
Teacher Questioning as Assessment	p. 51
Reading Assessment Snapshot: Process and Product Assessment	p. 71
Portfolio Assessment	p. 72
Reading Assessment Snapshot: Authentic Assessment	p. 92
Performance Assessment	p. 93
Reading Assessment Snapshot: Advocating for Reading Assessment	p. 112
A Comparison of Two Assessments: An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement (OSELA) and Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)	p. 113
Reading Assessment Snapshot: Technology and Assessment	p. 129
High-Stakes Reading Tests	p. 131
Reading Assessment Snapshot: Consistent Assessment in Schools	p. 151
Assessing "the Other": Important Noncognitive Aspects of Reading	p. 153
Reading Assessment Snapshot: Assessing Student Collaboration and Cooperation	p. 169
Accommodation and Reading Assessment	p. 171
Reading Assessment Snapshot: Confounds in Reading Assessment	p. 187
References	p. 189
Index	p. 197
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