Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing
Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing

Author: IRA/NCTE Joint Task Force on Assessment

Publisher: International Reading Assoc.

Published: 2009-12-03

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 0872077764

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With this updated document, IRA and NCTE reaffirm their position that the primary purpose of assessment must be to improve teaching and learning for all students. Eleven core standards are presented and explained, and a helpful glossary makes this document suitable not only for educators but for parents, policymakers, school board members, and other stakeholders. Case studies of large-scale national tests and smaller scale classroom assessments (particularly in the context of RTI, or Response to Intervention) are used to highlight how assessments in use today do or do not meet the standards.

SRA Open Court Reading
SRA Open Court Reading

Author: WrightGroup/McGraw-Hill Staff

Publisher:

Published: 2001-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780075712688

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assessment is comprised of Lesson Assessment and Benchmark Assessment. Lesson Assessment tests students on material covered in theprogram weekly. A score of 80% or higher indicates student mastery. These assessments offer the opportunity for summative assessment as students aregraded on their knowledge of previously-taught skills and concepts. Benchmark Assessment features tests of equivalent difficulty that sample the yearlongcurriculum to gauge student growth. Improving scores on these assessments indicate students increasing mastery of the content. This assessment acts as auniversal screener of student growth. Progress is measured against benchmark cutoff scores. Cutoff scores rise as student knowledge grows and help topoint out gaps between student achievement and the curriculum-based goals. These two assessments offer valuable formative data as the frequency of theassessments allows for reliable progress monitoring data that can be used to ensure that all students progress.

SRA Open Court Reading
SRA Open Court Reading

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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assessment is comprised of Lesson Assessment and Benchmark Assessment. Lesson Assessment tests students on material covered in theprogram weekly. A score of 80% or higher indicates student mastery. These assessments offer the opportunity for summative assessment as students aregraded on their knowledge of previously-taught skills and concepts. Benchmark Assessment features tests of equivalent difficulty that sample the yearlongcurriculum to gauge student growth. Improving scores on these assessments indicate students increasing mastery of the content. This assessment acts as auniversal screener of student growth. Progress is measured against benchmark cutoff scores. Cutoff scores rise as student knowledge grows and help topoint out gaps between student achievement and the curriculum-based goals. These two assessments offer valuable formative data as the frequency of theassessments allows for reliable progress monitoring data that can be used to ensure that all students progress.