Reading Audit Research Hub Assessment

Find reports and links to best-practice in relation to reading and assessment below:

• Assessment for Learning: A Practical Guide
  This resource has grown out of the AfL Action Research Project and is based on the learning and experiences of teachers and pupils who participated in it. It offers succinct advice and illustrates how schools can use assessment to promote learning, develop understanding and enhance practice.
  

  The Northern Ireland Curriculum. (2009). Assessment for Learning – A Practical Guide. [online] Available at: https://images.scholastic.co.uk/assets/a/e1/a8/afl-practical-guide-1618938.pdf [Accessed 24 Aug. 2017].

• Assessment for Learning: Why, What and How by Dylan Wiliam
  Dylan Wiliam talks about why raising achievement is important, why investing in teachers is the answer, why assessment for learning should be the focus of that investment and how teachers can put that into practice.
  

  Wiliam, Dylan. (2006). Assessment for Learning: why, what and how. [online] Available at: https://images.scholastic.co.uk/assets/a/29/46/cambridge-afl-keynote-1618962.doc [Accessed 1 Sep. 2017]

• Why is assessment important?
  This page explains why assessment is important and how to get the most out of assessments.
  

  Reading.ac.uk. (2017). Why is assessment important?. [online] Available at: https://www.reading.ac.uk/engageinassessment/why-is-assessment-important/eia-why-is-assessment-important.aspx [Accessed 24 Aug. 2017].

• Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment by Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam
  This paper is about the inside of the black box (present policy seems to treat the classroom as a black box). It is focused on one aspect of teaching—formative assessment, but the argument that we develop is that this feature is at the heart of effective teaching.
  

  Black, P. and Wiliam, D. (2001). Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment. [online] King’s College London School of Education. Available at: https://images.scholastic.co.uk/assets/a/e6/85/inside-the-black-box-assessment-for-learning-1618963.pdf [Accessed 24 Aug. 2017].

• Raising Students Who Want To Read
  Phyllis S. Hunter discusses motivating students, and the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and how important it is to develop students’ intrinsic motivation. Hunter lays out nine principles that teachers can follow in order to help students become motivated readers.
  

  Hunter, Phyllis S. (2005). Raising Students who want to Read. [online] Available at: http://d3r7smo9ckww6x.cloudfront.net/8-Raising_Students_Who_Want_to_Read_0.pdf [Accessed 24 Aug. 2017].

• Inquiring Minds Learn to Read
  A report detailing different techniques that teachers can use in aiding students with their literacy skills.
  

  Wilhelm, Jeffrey D. (2005). Inquiring Minds Learn to Read. [online] Available at: http://d3r7smo9ckww6x.cloudfront.net/10-Inquiring_Minds_Learn_To_Read_0.pdf [Accessed 24 Aug. 2017].

• Growth Expectations, Setting Achievable Goals
  This paper describes how teachers can use Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI), a test of reading comprehension developed by Scholastic Inc., to set reading growth goals and to evaluate students’ responsiveness to instruction by evaluating actual fall-to-spring growth expectations.
  

  Knutson, K. (2011). Growth Expectations: Setting Achievable Goals. [online] Available at: http://d3r7smo9ckww6x.cloudfront.net/2-SRI_GrowthExpectationsSetting_2.pdf [Accessed 24 Aug. 2017].

• Assessing reading: from theories to classrooms
  This book sets out to explore some of the theories, practices and conflicts that surround the idea of reading at the beginning of the 21st century. In order to do this, it adopts a particular perspective: that of assessment.
  

  Sainsbury, M., Harrison, C. and Watts, A. (2006). Assessing Reading. [online] nfer. Available at: https://www.nfer.ac.uk/publications/ASR01/ASR01.pdf [Accessed 24 Aug. 2017].

• Measuring performance of schools: progress or attainment?
  With the UK Government policy increasing focus on progress, this article discusses how to best monitor a child’s performance.
  

  Barrett, Laura (2015). Measuring performance of schools: progress or attainment?. [online] Research-matters.co.uk. Available at: http://www.research-matters.co.uk/research-chatter/measuring-performance-of-schools-progress-or-attainment [Accessed 24 Aug. 2017].

• Introduction to PM Benchmark RAR
  This video discusses the PM Benchmark Reading Assessment Resource, its philosophy, and how it works in the classroom to support and track student reading progress.
  

  YouTube. (2014). Introduction to PM Benchmark RAR. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgbgsHV6ju0 [Accessed 24 Aug. 2017].

• Running Records
  This video is a recording of an assessment with a six year old boy, focusing on his reading skills.
  

  YouTube. (2014). Running Record Assessment with a 6-Year-Old Boy. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQtLFZHWP88 [Accessed 24 Aug. 2017].

• Reading Assessment in the Primary Grades
  This article looks at various methods of assessing reading.
  

  Hughes, Dr Janette M. (2007). Assessing Reading. [online] Faculty.uoit.ca. Available at: http://faculty.uoit.ca/hughes/Reading/AssessingReading.html [Accessed 24 Aug. 2017].

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