Assessing Reading Changing Practice In Classrooms

This second book focuses directly on the classroom, on the challenges individual teachers face in classroom-based assessment, and how these challenges have been and are being met in a range of international contexts.

This second book focuses directly on the classroom, on the challenges individual teachers face in classroom-based assessment, and how these challenges have been and are being met in a range of international contexts.

This volume focuses directly on the classroom, on the challenges individual teachers face in classroom-based assessment, and on how these challenges have been and are being met in a range of international contexts.

This volume focuses directly on the classroom, on the challenges individual teachers face in classroom-based assessment, and on how these challenges have been and are being met in a range of international contexts.

This book, along with its companion volume Assessing Reading 2: Changing Practice in Classrooms, was originally conceived as the major outcome from an international seminar on reading assessment held in England. It focuses particularly on theoretical and methodological issues, though with a clear series of links to practices in assessment, especially state and national approaches to classroom-based assessment in the USA, the UK and in Australia, at both primary and secondary levels. Chapters offer new perspectives on the theories that underlie the development and interpretation of reading assessments, national assessments and classroom-based assessment, challenging readers to think in different ways.

Measuring innovation in education and understanding how it works is essential to improve the quality of the education sector. Monitoring systematically how pedagogical practices evolve would considerably increase the international education knowledge base. We need to examine whether, and how ...

This document is intended to inform discussion among Manitoba educators regarding the effective use of assessment processes to facilitate learning for all students.