TY  - CHAP
T1  - Assessment in schools related to literacy: reading
A1  - Topping,K. J.
AU  - Topping,K. J.
PB  - Elsevier
PY  - 2010
Y1  - 2010
N2  - This article explores reading assessments which occur in the classroom under the control of the class teacher. It considers group and individual norm-referenced tests, their advantages and disadvantages, and then discusses different kinds of computer-based test. Thereafter, it explores an authentic assessment of real reading, through systematic observation, group discussions, affective and motivational inventories, phonic and pre-reading sub-skills checklists, informal reading inventories and reading miscue inventories, retellings, fluency, portfolios, computer-aided assessment of real books, and peer and self-assessments. It concludes with the assertion that a formative assessment of reading in the classroom is more important than external high-stakes or psychometric testing.
AB  - This article explores reading assessments which occur in the classroom under the control of the class teacher. It considers group and individual norm-referenced tests, their advantages and disadvantages, and then discusses different kinds of computer-based test. Thereafter, it explores an authentic assessment of real reading, through systematic observation, group discussions, affective and motivational inventories, phonic and pre-reading sub-skills checklists, informal reading inventories and reading miscue inventories, retellings, fluency, portfolios, computer-aided assessment of real books, and peer and self-assessments. It concludes with the assertion that a formative assessment of reading in the classroom is more important than external high-stakes or psychometric testing.
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Reading
KW  - Children
KW  - Education
U2  - 10.1016/B978-0-08-044894-7.01705-X
DO  - 10.1016/B978-0-08-044894-7.01705-X
M1  - Chapter
SN  - 9780080448930
BT  - International encyclopedia of education
T2  - International encyclopedia of education
A2  - McGaw,Barry
ED  - McGaw,Barry
SP  - 189
EP  - 195
ER  -