Reading Assessment

Principles and Practices for Elementary Teachers
Second Edition

Shelby J. Barrentine and Sandra M. Stokes, editors

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

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
• 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.

© 2005 | 328 pp.
ISBN 10: 0-87207-572-9 | ISBN 13: 978-0-87207-572-6

Also of interest:

Understanding and Using Reading Assessment, K–12

Strategies for Reading Assessment and Instruction