Children's Reading Comprehension and Assessment

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Contents: Part I: Historical and Theoretical Foundations. A.P. Sweet, Assessment of Reading Comprehension: The RAND Reading Study Group Vision. P.D. Pearson, D.N. Hamm, The History of Reading Comprehension Assessment. W. Kintsch, E. Kintsch, Comprehension. N.K. Duke, Comprehension of What for What: Comprehension as a Non-Unitary Construct. Part II: Development and Motivational Factors in Reading Comprehension. P. van den Broek, P. Kendeou, K. Kremer, J. Lynch, J. Butler, M.J. White, E.P. Lorch, The Assessment of Comprehension Abilities in Young Children. S.G. Paris, R.D. Carpenter, A.H. Paris, E.E. Hamilton, Spurious and Genuine Correlates of Children's Reading Comprehension. S.A. Stahl, E.H. Hiebert, The Word Factors: A Problem for Reading Comprehension Assessments. J.T. Guthrie, A. Wigfield, Roles of Motivation and Engagement in Reading Comprehension Assessment. R.C. Calfee, R.G. Miller, Comprehending Through Composing: Reflections on Reading Assessment Strategies. Part III: Assessment in School Contexts. B.M. Taylor, P.D. Pearson, Reading Assessment as a Tool to Evaluate and Improve Reading Instruction Within a School. A.S. Palincsar, S.J. Magnusson, E. Pesko, M. Hamlin, Attending to the Nature of Subject Matter in Text Comprehension Assessments. R.D. Carpenter, S.G. Paris, Issues of Validity and Reliability in Early Reading Assessments. M. Pressley, K. Hilden, Commentary on Three Important Directions in Comprehension Assessment Research. Part IV: Large-Scale Assessments of Reading Comprehension. T. Salinger, Assessment of Young Children as They Learn to Read and Write. J.R. Campbell, Single Instrument, Multiple Measures: Considering the Use of Multiple Item Formats to Assess Reading Comprehension. D.J. Francis, J.M. Fletcher, H.W. Catts, J.B. Tomblin, Dimensions Affecting the Assessment of Reading Comprehension. K.K. Wixson, J.F. Carlisle, The Influence of Large-Scale Assessment of Reading Comprehension on Classroom Practice: A Commentary.