IRA's
Focus on Reading Assessment includes position
statements, current news and discussion of important issues related
to literacy assessment and evaluation.
Literacy
Assessment and Reporting: Changing Practices as outlined by Dr.
Heather Fehring describes how the Information Age changes what it means
to be literate and assessment must also reflect these changes toward
more multimodal and multimodal techniques.
Changes
in Reading Assessment from Education Place
summarizes two newer forms of assessment including performance-based
assessment and authentic assessment.
Portfolio
Assessment overview defines this concept,
describes its evolving characteristics, outlines supporting research
and gives classroom examples from the state of California.
Literacy Assessment Materials
Assessment
of Phonological Awareness and Reading can
be downloaded and administered by those qualified in test administration.
The data can be used as part of an ongoing research project in Australia.
LEARNS
Literacy Assessment Profile from the Bank Street School of Education
is a series of .pdf files that provides an assessment option for reading
efforts that use volunteers. It is an observation tool that addresses
three stages of literacy development and describes behaviors children
exhibit as they learn to read.
