Literacy assessment for today's schools
Subtitle: monograph of the College Reading Association 1996
By: editors, Martha D. Collins ; Barbara G. Moss.
Contributors: Collins, Martha D.; Moss, Barbara G.; College Reading Association.
Series: Monograph of the College Reading Association; Monograph (College Reading Association)
Publisher: College Reading Association
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Harrisonburg, Virginia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Literacy.; Educational evaluation.; Portfolios in education.; Literacy programs -- United States.; Reading.; Adult learning -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Section One: Assessment in the classroom and beyond for tomorrow's schools: Assessment criteria in the first grade / Elizabeth Pryor. Learning about literacy through retelling / Gail G. Smith and Diane Keister. Profiling students' achievement in language and literacy / Gerry Shiel and Patrick Forde. Assessment of reading attitudes / Mary M. Brittain and Clay V. Brittain. "I believe learning is concentrating, figuring things out and sometimes having fun" / Nancy B. Cothern; value: Section Two: Literacy assessment through portfolios: Involving graduate students in personal literacy evaluation through the use of portfolios / Diane D. Allen. Teachers as learners / Michael P. Ford. Authentic assessment in a university preservice literacy course / Deborah R. Dillon [et al.]. A model for preparing preservice and inservice teachers to interpret and utilize portfolio assessment / Rebecca P. Harlin and Sally E. Lipa. The challenge of change / Barbara Martin Palmer, Marie E. Holahan and Judy Ramoy Johnstone. Literacy portfolios / Linda Irwin-DeVitis. Pre and post course literacy self-assessment / Jane Brady Matanzo. Rethinking the role and practice of assessment in teacher education.; value: / N. Suzanne Standerford. Portfolio assessment in adult education programs / Linda Thistlethwaite. Assessing developmental learners' perceptions of reading and writing and the literacy demands in college / Maria Valeri-Gold. The ALERT / Rita M. Bean [et al.]. Developing and assessing emergent literacy through children's literature / Nancy A. Anderson. / N. Suzanne Standerford. Portfolio assessment in adult education programs / Linda Thistlethwaite. Assessing developmental learners' perceptions of reading and writing and the literacy demands in college / Maria Valeri-Gold. The ALERT / Rita M. Bean [et al.]. Developing and assessing emergent literacy through children's literature / Nancy A. Anderson.