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Project Folio

Title

Reading Comprehension Assessment

Collaborators

Jeannie Kerr
Melody Rudd

Schools

Admiral Seymour Elementary

Languages

English

Grades

4-7

Last Modified

May 28, 2007

Description

The push to require that students participate in standardized testing in reading comprehension is sparked by the "accountability" atmosphere that is starting to dominate education in multiple ways. There is currently not a reliable and valid measure of reading comprehension that can be administered in a group format in an expedient way. This account provides a discussion on the difficulties of accurately assessing reading comprehension via standarized group testing and provides an example of a quick and individually administered measure of reading comprehension with grade 4/5 students that might be more reliable and valid. This account is meant to open conversation with educators who are investigating the topic.

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Assessment

Our list of variables is as follows:In looking at the literature on reading comprehension assessment, there is currently not a proven standardized group assessment measure for reading comprehension. "Numbers" can be provided, but it seems they will be highly variable in terms of accuracy. The only highly correlated finding to reading...
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Reading Assessment

This gallery has a marked up "Multidimensional Fluency Scale" and the reading passage that was used for assessment.
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