03079cam a22003618i 4500 19803 19803 23866244 OSt 20250423110314.0 240914s2025 nyu b 001 0 eng 2024042386 9781462556120 (paperback) DLC eng rda DLC DLC pcc n-us--- 372.48 AFF 23/eng/20240914 Afflerbach, Peter, author. Understanding and using reading assessment, K-12 / Peter Afflerbach. Fourth edition. 2412 New York : The Guilford Press, [2025] 270p. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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. Reading (Elementary) Ability testing United States. Reading (Secondary) Ability testing United States. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc RFT 0 0 ddc 0 0 R-13/4 AIISH AIISH 2025-04-23 0 372.48 AFF 24054 2025-04-23 00:00:00 2025-04-23 RFT