Assessment: Resources

Here is a sample of recent articles on assessment. 

The Reading Teacher

• “The Assessment of Thoughtful Literacy in NAEP”
• “Balancing the Assessment of Learning and for Learning in Support of Student Literacy Achievement”
• “What Counts? Literacy Assessment in Urban Schools”
• “A Critical Analysis of Eight Informal Reading Inventories”

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy

• “Are Assessment Data Really Driving Middle School Reading Instruction?”

Reading Research Quarterly

• “Vocabulary Assessment”
• “The Relation Between DIBELS, Reading Comprehension, and Vocabulary in Urban First-Grade Students”

Click a title to find a detailed description and to browse contents and sample chapters of these recent releases. Use Publications Search to find more.

• Assessing Preschool Literacy Development
  by Billie J. Enz and Lesley Mandel Morrow
• Understanding and Using Reading Assessment, K–12
  by Peter Afflerbach
• Using Metacognitive Assessments to Create Individualized Reading Instruction
  by Susan E. Israel

• Making the Most of Reading Tests