Learning about Language Learners: The Case for Informal Assessment in the Whole Language Classroom.

Gutknecht, Bruce

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ERIC Number: EJ455603

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Publication Date: 1992

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Learning about Language Learners: The Case for Informal Assessment in the Whole Language Classroom.

Gutknecht, Bruce

Reading Improvement, v29 n4 p210-19 Win 1992

Maintains that continued over reliance on traditional skills-based assessment of reading abilities provides the whole-language teacher with little, if any, useful information for instructional planning. Suggests informal assessment procedures that focus on the language learner and provide a rich information source on which to base instructional decision making. (SR)

Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Informal Assessment, Instructional Development, Reading Ability, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Student Evaluation, Whole Language Approach

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

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Language: English

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