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Johnston, Peter H. – 1983
Drawing on work from a number of disciplines, this volume brings together experimental and theoretical information relevant to the problems of assessing children's reading comprehension. After a short introduction, the first section defines reading comprehension, presenting theoretical issues intended to provide an understanding of what is being…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Objectives
Johnson, Ned; Eskelsen, Emily Warner – Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
This insightful and practical guide for parents shows how they often undermine rather than encourage their teens' success on one of the most stressful standardized tests--the SAT--and what strategies will remedy the problem. In recent years this test has taken on fearsome proportions, matched only by the growing competition for slots at major…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Testing, Standardized Tests, Family Relationship
Neale, Marie D. – 1999
Following the style of the 1958 original, this third edition of the Neale Analysis of Reading Ability is both a standardized attainment test and a diagnostic test for readers of all ages and thus can be used to assess reading progress objectively as well as to obtain structured diagnostic observations of an individual's reading behavior. It…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Reading Ability
Caldwell, JoAnne Schudt – 2002
This primer provides the basic information that teachers and tutors need to get started on the complex process of reading assessment. Designed for maximum utility in today's standards-driven classroom, the primer presents simple, practical assessment strategies that are based on theory and research. It takes teachers step by step through learning…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Performance Based Assessment, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency
Calkins, Lucy; Montgomery, Kate; Santman, Donna – 1998
This book is meant to be a guide to standardized reading tests, to help teachers live with tests. Standardized, norm-referenced reading tests are a fact of life for most teachers. The suggestions in this book are drawn form the experience of teachers in the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Teachers College, Columbia University. Part…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Norm Referenced Tests
Strickland, Dorothy S.; And Others – 1987
Noting that the proliferation of computers in the schools requires teachers to know the best ways to use them, this book shows how the computer can be used in a reading and language arts curriculum as tool, tutor, and tutee with currently available software. Chapter one defines the reading process in terms of its relationship to background…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Software, Copyrights