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How and How Not to Prepare Students for the New Tests
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Shanahan, Timothy – Reading Teacher, 2014
"Data-driven school reform" emphasizes the idea that if teachers analyze the kinds of questions students miss on standardized reading comprehension tests, and then give students lots of practice with such items, they will end up with higher test scores. This approach is likely to be popular with the new Partnership for Assessment of…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, College Readiness