Reading Assessment: Principles And Practices for Elementary Teachers

How do you respond to the competing pressures of school accountability, high-stakes testing, classroom assessment and instruction? This updated collection of articles from The Reading Teacher can help. You'll find tools for building school assessment policies, helping students succeed on high-stakes tests, using assessment to inform your instruction, drawing students into the assessment process, and choosing assessment protocols for individual students or groups of students. A list of articles for further reading and IRA's position statement on high-stakes testing will further broaden your knowledge base of assessment issues.

Thought-provoking, research-focused, and student-centered. An excellent text for university literacy courses and an even better book for the classroom teacher. --NCTE Selects