Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing

The IRA–NCTE Joint Task Force on Assessment

The International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English thank the following members of the Joint Task Force on Assessment for their work on this document.

• Peter Johnston (chair)
  The University at Albany, New York
• Peter Afflerbach
  University of Maryland, College Park
• Sandra Krist
  Los Angeles Unified School District, California
• Kathryn Mitchell Pierce
  Wydown Middle School, Clayton, Missouri
• Elizabeth Spalding
  University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Alfred W. Tatum
  University of Illinois at Chicago
• Sheila W. Valencia
  University of Washington, Seattle