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Download full textNew York State Education Department, 2024
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) has a partnership with NWEA for the development of the 2024 Grades 3-8 English Language Arts Tests. Teachers from across the State work with NYSED in a variety of activities to ensure the validity and reliability of the New York State Testing Program (NYSTP). The 2024 Grades 6 and 7 English Language…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Format, Language Arts, English Instruction
Instructional Support System of Pennsylvania, East Petersburg. – 1994
Bringing structure to the reading assessment process, this paper presents a draft proposal of an assessment structure which practitioners can follow, one which can be applied systematically within the Instructional Support Team process across Pennsylvania. After some background information, the paper briefly discusses features of effective reading…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Education, Performance Based Assessment, Reading Achievement
Pumfrey, Peter D. – 1985
The second edition of this British publication provides details of recent developments in the assessment of reading attainments and the analysis of reading processes. The book begins with a description of various types of reading tests and assessment techniques with consideration given to the purposes for which normative, criterion-referenced, and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Informal Reading Inventories
Peer reviewedWood, Karen D. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Describes a procedure termed free associational assessment that uses free recall and associational thinking. A sample lesson is provided. (HOD)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Educational Assessment, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedCardarelli, Aldo F. – Reading Teacher, 1988
Claims that in the conventional administration of the Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) comprehension diagnosis is inordinately influenced by the reader's ability to recall information. Suggests that allowing reinspection by the reader restores recall to its proper function and may result in other advantages. (NH)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Informal Reading Inventories
Christman, J. Benton; And Others – 1991
A simple curriculum is provided that is designed to allow any school to prepare its students for the Enhanced American College Testing Program Tests (Enhanced ACT). Components of this manual include: (1) introduce the test structure; (2) give the strategy lectures; (3) provide as much structured practice as possible; (4) administer a mock test…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Entrance Examinations, English, Guides
Peer reviewedCrawford, Alan N. – Journal of Reading, 1984
Describes the Prueba de Lectura y Lenguaje Escrito (PPLE--roughly translatable as the "Test of Early Language Development") that may meet the need for standardized and diagnostic tests of reading and written composition in Spanish. (HOD)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Skills, Language Tests
Lewin, Beverly A. – 1992
Schemata based notions need not replace, but should be reflected in, product-centered reading tests. The contributions of schema theory to the psycholinguistic model of reading has been thoroughly reviewed. Schemata-based reading tests provide several advantages: (1) they engage the appropriate conceptual processes for the student which frees the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, College English, Educational Needs, English (Second Language)
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation and Data Processing Branch. – 1987
A bulletin concerning Alberta's Grade 6 French language achievement test to be administered in June 1988 provides specific information about the test's design, items, and scoring. It begins with general information about the province's achievement test program in English and goes on to describe and illustrate the French language arts achievement…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Measurement, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries
Pearson, P. David; Dunning, David – Illinois Reading Council Journal, 1985
Schemes for assessing reading achievement with specific tests have been in use since early in this century. The two driving forces behind the testing movement--scientific objectivity and compulsory education--blossomed in the 1920s and 1930s and continued substantially unchanged through most of the 1960s. In the early 1970s, the idea of mastery…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
