Bell / McCallum Handbook of Reading Assessment

A One-Stop Resource for Prospective and Practicing Educators
2. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-61925-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 342 Seiten

The Handbook of Reading Assessment, Second Edition, covers the wide range of reading assessments educators must be able to use and understand to effectively assess and instruct their students. Comprehensive and filled with numerous authentic examples, the text addresses informal classroom based assessment, progress monitoring, individual norm-referenced assessment, and group norm-referenced or ‘high-stakes’ testing. Coverage includes assessment content relevant for English language learners and adults. A set of test guidelines to use when selecting or evaluating an assessment tool is provided.

New and updated in the Second Edition

- Impact on reading assessment of Common Core Standards for literacy; increased top-down focus on accountability and high stakes tests; innovations in computerized assessment of reading

- Latest developments in Responsive to Intervention (RTI) model, particularly as they impact reading assessment

- International Literacy Association standards for reading educators and brief discussion of International Dyslexia Association standards

- Types of reading assessment, including discussion of formative versus summative assessment

- Expanded coverage of assessment of reading motivation

- Expanded coverage of writing assessment

- New and revised assessments across genres of reading assessment

- Companion Website with numerous resources relevant to reading and writing assessment; suggestions for evidence-based instructional practices that can be linked to assessment results; PowerPoint slides, a test bank, study guides, and application exercises.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bell, Sherry Mee

McCallum, R. Steve

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Assessment of Reading: The Context

Chapter 2: Nature of Reading

Chapter 3: Assessing Motivation to Read

Chapter 4: informal Assessment: Informing Instruction

Chapter 5: Informal Assessment: Progress Monitoring

Chapter 6: Formal Assessment of Reading: Individualized Assessment

Chapter 7: Formal Group Assessment: Focus on Accountability

Chapter 8: Using Informal and Formal Assessment Data to Inform Teaching

Appendix A: International Reading Association Standards 2010: Standard 3

(Assessment)

Appendix B: Inclusive Model of Reading

Appendix C: Literacy Instruction Pie with Overlay of Motivation

Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

Sherry Mee Bell is Professor and Head, Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA. A former special and elementary teacher and school psychologist, she is author of a number of articles on assessment, reading/disabilities, and teacher preparation.

R. Steve McCallum is Professor and Head, Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA. He is author of a number of assessment-related articles, tests, and texts, and is a consulting editor and co-founder of the Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment.