A test all students can take at once would be better.
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Heather Poland wrote: > Do you want like an Informal Reading Inventory? Or something that all > students in a class can take at once? > > On 2/25/07, Jan Kammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm looking for an easy to administer and score reading test for middle > > school students. It has to be a test that would take less than 50 minutes > > for students to complete, and of course it has to yield accurate results. > > > > It would be great if the test was also free or very inexpensive. > > > > I doubt the results of the test my school has used in which students who > > seem not to understand grade level fiction scored as 12+ grade-level > > readers. > > > > Thanks for any suggestions you can offer. > > Jan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > > > > > > -- > - Heather > > "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of > man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments > fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; > new races build others. But in the world of books are > volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet > live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were > written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men > centuries dead." --Clarence Day > > "While the rhetoric is highly effective, remarkably little > good evidence exists that there's any educational substance > behind the accountability and testing movement." > Peter Sacks, Standardized Minds > > "When our children fail competency tests the schools lose > funding. When our missiles fail tests, we increase > funding. " > Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Presidential Candidate > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive >
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