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Download full textSchutz, Dick – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2013
The commentary (1) uses the U. S. National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) as a prototype for examining standardized reading achievement tests at the item level, and (2) sketches an alternative based on an initiative underway in the United Kingdom.
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Educational Change, Achievement Tests, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedDenner, Peter R.; Pehrsson, Robert S. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Presents an alternative performance-based assessment of reading comprehension and readability called the "Opin" procedure, a macroclosure procedure in which sentence endings instead of single words are deleted. Notes that readers' responses are rated on a continuum from low to high proximity with the author's intentions. (RS)
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Performance Based Assessment
