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Peer reviewedValencia, Sheila W. – Preventing School Failure, 1997
The limitations of standardized tests of reading ability in young children are examined and authentic assessment alternatives, including multiple measures of student learning and the close interaction of assessment and teaching, are identified. Examples of authentic classroom assessments are detailed for emergent readers, beginning readers, and…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Beginning Reading, Diagnostic Teaching, Emergent Literacy
Peer reviewedMarston, Douglas; And Others – Preventing School Failure, 1992
This article describes the use (in Minneapolis, Minnesota) of curriculum-based measurement (CBM) to monitor reading progress, including development of CBM reading probes, administration and scoring of the CBM reading test, determination of appropriate measurement levels, setting of long-range goals, and program evaluation. Research in this area is…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Informal Reading Inventories, Program Evaluation
