Assessing Reading 1: Theory and Practice

<p>This book along with its companion volume <em>Assessing Reading 2: Changing Practice in Classrooms</em> was originally conceived as the major outcome from an international seminar on reading assessment held in England. It focuses particularly on theoretical and methodological issues though with a clear series of links to practices in assessment especially state and national approaches to classroom-based assessment in the USA the UK and in Australia at both primary and secondary levels.<br> Chapters offer new perspectives on the theories that underlie the development and interpretation of reading assessments national assessments and classroom-based assessment challenging readers to think in different ways.</p>