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Harp, Bill – 2000
This handbook gives teachers, reading specialists, administrators, or students concise, up-to-date information on the most popular assessment and evaluation tools in literacy. This second edition retains many of the tools reviewed in the first edition and adds 12 new tools. The first section reviews 24 tools that are teacher-made. The second…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Literacy, Reading Achievement, Student Evaluation
Peer reviewedGreene, Beth G. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1994
Presents an annotated bibliography of 12 research articles, all related to literacy assessment. Contains essays dealing with writing models, portfolios, and student performance in writing classes. (HB)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Higher Education, Literacy, Models
Download full textNational Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 2002
This demonstration booklet illustrates the kind of exercises or test questions and tasks used in the assessment of student achievement in reading and writing by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for 2002. Each student will be asked to complete the background section and the cognitive sections for one subject, and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Literacy
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 2002
This demonstration booklet illustrates the kind of exercises or test questions and tasks used in the assessment of student achievement in reading and writing by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for 2002. Each student will be asked to complete the background section and the cognitive sections for one subject, and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade 8, Literacy, Middle Schools
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 2002
This demonstration booklet illustrates the kind of exercises or test questions and tasks used in the assessment of student achievement in reading and writing by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for 2002. Each student will be asked to complete the background section and the cognitive sections for one subject, and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade 12, Literacy, National Competency Tests
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 2001
This demonstration booklet illustrates the kinds of exercises or test questions and tasks used in the assessment of student achievement in reading and in writing by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Each student will be asked to complete the background section and the cognitive sections in one subject, and the assessment will…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Field Tests, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 2001
This demonstration booklet illustrates the kinds of exercises or test questions and tasks used in the assessment of student achievement in reading and writing by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Each student will be asked to complete the background section and the cognitive sections for one subject, and the assessment will…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Field Tests, Grade 12, High Schools
Gormley, Kathleen A., Ed.; McDermott, Peter C., Ed. – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 1994
Sharing concerns and interests of New York State educators in the improvement of literacy, this annual journal raises educational issues such as appropriate, effective instruction and assessment for all of New York's children. A central thread found in many of the articles is the importance of authentic or meaningful experiences that invite…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Literacy, Portfolios (Background Materials)
Griffin, Patrick; And Others – 1995
Designed to help teachers who want to implement an approach to assessment and reporting that supports the wholeness of the teaching/learning/assessment enterprise, this book describes students' accumulation of literacy-related behaviors and attributes and allows for the idiosyncracies of individual learning patterns. The scales presented in the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Holistic Approach
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 2001
This demonstration booklet illustrates the kinds of exercises or test questions and tasks used in the assessment of student achievement in reading and writing by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Each student will be asked to complete the background section and the cognitive sections for one subject, and the assessment will…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Field Tests, Grade 8, Junior High Schools
Learning Point Associates / North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL), 2005
Literacy instruction does not end with reading success in early grades. As students move to middle and high school, new challenges emerge that can affect literacy achievement. Even for students who achieve early reading and writing success, the literacy demands of middle and high school can pose substantial challenges. Older students must be able…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Student Improvement, Adolescents, Literacy
Peer reviewedBauer, Eurydice Bouchereau – Reading Research and Instruction, 1999
Reviews classroom-based studies on alternative literacy assessment. Suggests that alternative assessments in some cases tapped elements of the reading process that are more difficult to assess through traditional testing practices and created an impetus for some teachers to explore certain instructional issues. Finds little information on the…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Classroom Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Paratore, Jeanne R.; And Others – 1993
A study explored the ways information about first-grade children's uses of literacy at home might inform school-based assessment of children's literacy knowledge. Subjects, 10 families (all Caucasian) in a small suburban community of white-collar professionals and administrators and 14 families (Caucasian, Latino, and African-American) in a large…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Emergent Literacy, Grade 1, Literacy
