
Access Reading Test (ART) Manual
Hodder Education (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 31. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
40 pages
978-1-4441-9636-8 (ISBN)
Description
The popular Access Reading Test is designed for wide-range assessment and pinpoints strengths and weaknesses in four key reading skill areas: Literal Comprehension, Vocabulary, Comprehension requiring inference or prediction and Comprehension requiring analysis. - The manual describes how to use the test and how to establish if a student may be eligible for extra time in national tests or examinations - Now with four carefully matched parallel forms (A-D), the test takes just 30 minutes to administer, and is easy to score - Enables assessment of pupils from Key Stage 2 up to A level and beyond with general-purpose group test for use across the full ability range - Provides reliable assessment for each group with reading ages and percentiles, together with NC levels for Key Stage 3 and performance data in each skill area - Ideal as an initial 'screen' on entry to secondary school and for monitoring subsequent progress - Allows students to meet a variety of graded texts (fiction and non-fiction), styles and contexts with gradually increasing difficulty within each
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Learning
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 298 mm
Width: 196 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight
146 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4441-9636-8 (9781444196368)
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Colin McCarty is a former teacher, with extensive test-development experience, including National Tests and a wide range of diagnostic tests for Hodder.