Understanding and Using Reading Assessment K-12

International Reading Association | Peter Afflerbach | July 2007

ISBN 13: 9780872075856

With so many assessment choices available, it’s hard to decide which ones are right for your students. This indispensable resource will help you make quick, informed assessment decisions as you link assessment with curriculum and standards.

Peter Afflerbach, a leader in the field of assessment and a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Maryland, College Park, helps you to examine and choose reading assessments in relation to current understandings of the reading process, students’ development, and the culture of schooling.

Afflerbach presents a variety of reading assessments in a framework to help you choose from the many materials available. You’ll also learn how to assess a variety of outcomes and accomodate the development of learners in the reading assessment process.

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.

Understanding and Using Reading Assessment, K-12 will help you examine and choose reading assessment in relation to current understandings of the reading process, students’ development, and your teaching goals. Each chapter

focuses on a particular type of reading assessment to familiarize you with the broad array of assessments available,
uses the CURRV framework as an organizing principle to help you consider the consequences, usefulness, roles and responsibilities, reliability, and validity of the assessment,
includes questions and tasks that invite you to apply the knowledge you have gained from the chapter,
concludes with Reading Assessment Snapshots, which highlight important issues related to the assessments covered in this book.

In addition, the final two chapters focus on critical issues that are not given the attention they deserve: how outcomes other than cognitive skill and strategy growth may be assessed and accomodation of learners in reading assessment.

Whether you are interested in developing a more detailed understanding of different reading assessments or a comprehensive overview of reading assessment materials and procedures, this book is for you.

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