Assessing reading: How assessment can be used to target teaching and enhance understanding of reading comprehension

Sandra Knowles
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The skills demonstrated by a proficient reader are not easy to untangle. Current research acknowledges that reading comprehension is a highly complex area of ability, one that needs to be understood as the coordination of several integrated processes. Using example test questions and data, this presentation explores how assessment can help us make sense of reading comprehension in a way that curricula and commonly used teaching strategies cannot. Assessment is evidence that informs us about the skills involved in the reading process, how they relate to each other, and how they develop in complexity. When assessment is understood in this way, as much more than a tool to compare a student’s ability with that of their peers, it can be used to identify the actual skills individual students are consolidating and which specific steps will help their development.
阅读评估:如何利用评估进行针对性教学,提高对阅读理解的理解
一个熟练的读者所展示的技能是不容易理清的。目前的研究承认,阅读理解是一个高度复杂的能力领域,需要被理解为几个综合过程的协调。通过举例测试问题和数据,本报告探讨了评估如何帮助我们理解阅读理解,这是课程和常用教学策略无法做到的。评估是告诉我们阅读过程中所涉及的技能,它们如何相互关联,以及它们如何发展到复杂程度的证据。当评估以这种方式被理解时,它不仅仅是一个将学生的能力与同龄人进行比较的工具,它可以用来确定学生个人正在巩固的实际技能,以及哪些具体步骤将有助于他们的发展。
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