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Peer reviewedBrozo, William G.; Brozo, Carol C. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Critiques standardized, static literacy assessment practice. Proposes an interactive, curriculum-embedded, multidimensional approach to assessment based on observations and records of student literacy made on a variety of occasions over time and in a variety of authentic learning contexts. Demonstrates how a teacher and a student interacted to…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedPehrsson, Robert S. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Argues that informal reading inventories (IRI) and the cloze procedure may provide inaccurate information and inhibit the progress of poor readers. Examines the concept of frustration level in both IRI and cloze testing. Posits that, in attempting to avoid frustrating students, educators fail to provide students with sufficient challenges.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories
Peer reviewedDenner, Peter R.; Pehrsson, Robert S. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Presents an alternative performance-based assessment of reading comprehension and readability called the "Opin" procedure, a macroclosure procedure in which sentence endings instead of single words are deleted. Notes that readers' responses are rated on a continuum from low to high proximity with the author's intentions. (RS)
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Performance Based Assessment
Peer reviewedFreppon, Penny A. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Presents a case study of a nine-year-old boy's reading and writing difficulties. Notes that instruction grounded in sociopsycholinguistics, whole language, and emergent literacy helped the learner overcome his difficulties. Provides an account of alternative approaches in assessing written language difficulties; and the role of the reader's belief…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Case Studies, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy
Peer reviewedCox, Beverly E. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Suggests guidelines for observing young children's developing control over their thinking and text-making knowledge. Presents evidence of distinct, observable differences between at-risk and non-at-risk preschoolers' knowledge of what a literary piece should be and how to monitor the product to make sure it meets an audience's needs. Discusses…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Emergent Literacy
Peer reviewedBerninger, Virginia W.; And Others – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Examines intermediate grade students' intraindividual differences across different levels or units of written language in sequencing the elements of written language. Finds that performance at the word level does not predict performance at the sentence or paragraph levels and that performance at the sentence level does not predict performance at…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Intermediate Grades, Writing (Composition), Writing Achievement
Peer reviewedFarnan, Nancy – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Suggests that the implications of the conclusions of another article in this issue are critical to writing instruction, in that they relate to the nature of craft in writing and its relationship to current views of language development and learning. Offers specific instructional processes to address students' differing capabilities in processing…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Intermediate Grades, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
