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Portfolio and Performance Assessment: Helping Students Evaluate Their Progress as Readers and Writers.

Farr, Roger; Tone, Bruce – 1994

Responding to the increasing demand for the assessment of authentic language use, this book emphasizes that portfolios must first be useful and successful as part of instruction before they can be used effectively for assessment. Portfolios are presented in the book as working (not "show" portfolios) to promote the student's involvement…

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Usage, Performance Based Assessment, Portfolios (Background Materials)

Children's Use of Simile and Metaphor and Their Reading.

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Gambell, Trevor J.; McFetridge, Patricia A. – Reading Improvement, 1981

Reports on a study that investigated what constitutes metaphor and simile for sixth- and eighth-grade children. Discusses the implications of the findings for reading and language arts curriculum development and instruction. (FL)

Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Curriculum

Assessment in English: Adapting OAIP to the Classroom. The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Informal Series 56.

Evans, Peter J. A., Ed. – 1984

Intended for and developed by teachers, this collection of papers offers suggestions, activities, resources, and strategies to be used in the assessment of reading, language, and listening--all adapted from the Ontario Assessment Instrument Pool. The papers in the reading section deal with how a student's general performance trend can be helpful…

Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Language Usage

Elementary School Achievement Profiles. Portland Public Schools. A School-by-School Report of Basic Skills Test Results and School/Student/Staff Data: School Year 1986-87.

Portland Public Schools, OR. Dept. of Research, Evaluation, and Testing. – 1987

This report contains Portland Achievement Levels Tests results for 61 elementary schools, 18 middle schools, and one special program school in the Portland School District for the 1986-87 school year. Twelve different grade-level configurations are represented, from pre-kindergarten to grade 12. Tests are designed to be administered in accordance…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Attendance