Children and Reading Tests
Published on 22. February 2000
Book
Hardback
434 pages
978-1-56750-444-6 (ISBN)
Description
The increasing reliance of our educational system on standardized tests has precipitated a national debate. This debate, however, has proceeded with little attention to the tests themselves. This book makes a scholarly contribution to the debate by using the methods of discourse analysis to examine not only representative material from reading tests but also children's responses to it. The book is particularly attentive to the role of culture in shaping children's understanding of what they read.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
870 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56750-444-6 (9781567504446)
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CLIFFORD HILL holds an endowed chair-the Arthur I. Gates Professorship of Language and Education-at Columbia University, where he also chairs the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College./e In addition, he directs the Program in African Languages at the Institute of African Studies, which is housed in the School of International and Public Affairs.
ERIC LARSEN is Adjunct Professor and instructor at the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University.
ERIC LARSEN is Adjunct Professor and instructor at the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Content
Introduction Context of Study esting Reader Parsimony Truncated Narratives Excerpted Narratives Gapped Narratives Testing Reader Flexibility Shifting Frames Resolving Polarities Changing Registers Conclusions Implications of the Study Glossary References Author Index Subject Index