Includes bibliographical references and index.

Important issues and concepts in reading assessment -- Assessing early reading -- Assessing strategies and skills: tests and reading inventories -- Teacher questioning as assessment -- Performance assessment -- High-stakes reading tests -- Assessment and accommodating english learners and special-needs students -- Assessing "the other": important noncognitive aspects of reading -- Formative and summative assessment -- Promoting self-assessment to help students build reading independence -- Assessing digital and critical reading.

"Description: Well established as a teaching resource and course text, this guide to the "whats," "how-tos," and "whys" of reading assessment is now in a thoroughly revised fourth edition. Peter Afflerbach succinctly introduces major types of assessments, including formative and summative performance assessments, teacher questioning, and high-stakes testing. He provides an innovative framework (the CURRV model) for evaluating the suitability of assessments and combining them effectively to meet all students' needs. Emphasis is given to assessing core reading skills and strategies as well as noncognitive and social-emotional aspects of reading development. Helpful features include detailed examples of assessment done well, within-chapter "Enhance Your Understanding" questions and activities, and 25 reproducible and downloadable checklists and forms. -- New to This Edition: *Explains assessment in a science-of-reading context. *Increased focus on equity issues, plus updated theory and research throughout. *Chapter on assessing early reading. *Chapter on assessing digital and critical reading. -- Keywords: assessing, high-stakes testing, literacy, science of reading, CURRV, textbooks, texts, courses, equity in education, struggling readers, inventories, state tests, skills and strategies, elementary, secondary, students, classrooms, teachers, teaching, English learners"-- Provided by publisher.