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Peer reviewedFarr, Roger – Reading Teacher, 1992
Describes the complex and sometimes conflicting components involved in reading assessment issues and proposes a solution that involves linkages among assessment audiences and approaches. Concludes with remarks about how school districts might pull together all the pieces and solve the assessment puzzle for themselves. (PRA)
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Audience Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Achievement
Farr, Roger – Curriculum Review, 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…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Norm Referenced Tests
