Understanding and Using Reading Assessment: K-12

Now in a revised second edition, this comprehensive resource provides the guidelines you need to best conceptualize essment that benefits all students, as you understand and use reading essment.
Framed in relation to the educational, social, and political factors that exert varied degrees of influence upon reading essment, chapters focus on a particular type of essment to familiarize you with the range of available essments. Using essment well demands knowledge and vigilance. Therefore, each chapter uses the CURRV framework as an organizing principle to help you consider the consequences, usefulness, roles and responsibilities, re, and validity of each essment.
The second edition has been thoroughly updated with
New research and information on major national and international reading essments
Information on the Common Core State Standards to show how existing essments can describe and support complex acts of reading
A chapter on RTI and early reading essment to show how essment and instruction can work together
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