Framed in relation to the educational, social, and political factors that exert varied degrees of influence upon reading assessment, chapters focus on a particular type of assessment to familiarize you with the range of available assessments. Using assessment well demands knowledge and vigilance. Each chapter uses the CURRV framework as an organizing tool to help you consider the consequences, usefulness, roles and responsibilities, reliability, and validity of each assessment. This second edition has been thoroughly updated with new research and information on major national and international reading assessments; information on the Common Core State Standards to show how existing assessments can describe and support complex acts of reading; a chapter on RTI and early reading assessment to show how assessment and instruction can work together.
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