[LIT] reading test

[Jan Kammert]

A test all students can take at once would be better.


On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Heather Poland wrote:

> Do you want like an Informal Reading Inventory? Or something that all
> students in a class can take at once?
> 
> On 2/25/07, Jan Kammert <write at scn.org> wrote:
> >
> > I'm looking for an easy to administer and score reading test for middle
> > school students.  It has to be a test that would take less than 50 minutes
> > for students to complete, and of course it has to yield accurate results.
> >
> > It would be great if the test was also free or very inexpensive.
> >
> > I doubt the results of the test my school has used in which students who
> > seem not to understand grade level fiction scored as 12+ grade-level
> > readers.
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions you can offer.
> > Jan
> >
> >
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