Authentic Classroom Assessment of Early Reading: Alternatives to Standardized Tests.

Valencia, Sheila W.

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ERIC Number: EJ542793

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Authentic Classroom Assessment of Early Reading: Alternatives to Standardized Tests.

Valencia, Sheila W.

Preventing School Failure, v41 n2 p63-70 Win 1997

The limitations of standardized tests of reading ability in young children are examined and authentic assessment alternatives, including multiple measures of student learning and the close interaction of assessment and teaching, are identified. Examples of authentic classroom assessments are detailed for emergent readers, beginning readers, and developing readers. (DB)

Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Beginning Reading, Diagnostic Teaching, Emergent Literacy, Evaluation Methods, Informal Reading Inventories, Performance Based Assessment, Primary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Tests

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Guides - Non-Classroom

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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