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Meaningful Assessment of Content-Area Literacy for Youth with and without Disabilities
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Troia, Gary A. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2006
This article discusses methods for evaluating students' content-area literacy skills. Four specific factors that affect content-area literacy are described: vocabulary knowledge, topic knowledge, text structure knowledge, and textbook readability, along with methods of evaluating each of the factors. Most of these methods have not yet been…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Readability, Content Area Reading, Literacy
Using a Concept Maze to Assess Student Understanding of Secondary-Level Content
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Ketterlin-Geller, Leanne R.; McCoy, Jan D.; Twyman, Todd; Tindal, Gerald – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2006
Curriculum-based measurement is a system for monitoring students' progress and formatively evaluating instruction backed by 25 years of validation research. Most of this research has been conducted in elementary schools. In middle and high school classrooms, where there is an emphasis on mastering content knowledge, elementary-level measurements…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Academic Achievement, Cloze Procedure, Program Validation