Comprehension assessment : a classroom guide
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
The Guilford Press ,
c2008
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| Series: | Solving problems in the teaching of literacy
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Defining comprehension: a difficult task
- 2. Defining assessment: a four-step process
- 3. Assessing comprehension: what, how and for what purpose
- 4. Questions: promises and pitfalls
- 5. Open-ended assessments: powerful but problematic
- 6. Look who's talking: assessing comprehension through student dialogue
- 7. Words! words! words!: how can we assess word comprehension?
- 8. Comprehension assessment proxies: stand-ins. not stars
- 9. Grading practices: taking a new look at grading comprehension
- 10. Measuring comprehension through standardized tests: an oxymoron?
- 11. Using classroom comprehension assessment as a counterpart to standardized assessment: a possibility or a pipedream?