New Trends in Reading Assessment: Better Tests, Better Uses.

Farr, Roger

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ERIC Number: EJ363775

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Publication Date: 1987

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New Trends in Reading Assessment: Better Tests, Better Uses.

Farr, Roger

Curriculum Review, v27 n1 p21-23 Sep-Oct 1987

This discussion of assessing students' reading abilities focuses on the need for developing better tests and better interpretation of test scores. Criterion-referenced tests versus norm-referenced tests are described, highlighting the Degrees of Reading Power and Metropolitan Achievement Tests: Reading, and the need for assessing the reading process is discussed. (LRW)

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Norm Referenced Tests, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes, Reading Tests, Test Construction, Test Interpretation

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative

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Audience: Teachers; Administrators; Practitioners

Language: English

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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Metropolitan Achievement Tests; SAT (College Admission Test)

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