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ED324647 CS010266
Title: Formal Measures of Early Literacy. Technical Report No. 511.
Author(s): Stallman, Anne C.; Pearson, P. David
Author Affiliation: Illinois Univ., Urbana. Center for the Study of Reading.(BBB14200); Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge, MA.(MGG06460)
Pages: 52
Publication Date: September 1990
Sponsoring Agency: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. (EDD00036)
Contract No: G0087-C1001-90
Available from: EDRS Price MF01/PC03 Plus Postage.
Language: English
Document Type: Reports--Research (143)
Geographic Source: U.S.; Illinois
Journal Announcement: RIEMAR1991
This report reviews and evaluates the tradition of assessing early literacy with formal tests. It begins with a historical account of the readiness movement, focusing on the development of formal measures of early literacy and tracing the development of the movement into the 1980s. Next, the paper analyzes in depth tests that are currently available. Based on this analysis, the paper concludes that commercially available tests measure tasks that few would label literacy and recommends that future tests be designed to reflect both the emergent literacy tradition and the belief that teachers are professionals who need the best information possible to make informed decisions about children. Eight tables of data and 14 figures are included, and 43 references are attached. (Author/SR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development; Kindergarten; Primary Education; Reading Diagnosis; *Reading Readiness; *Reading Readiness Tests; Reading Research; Reading
Skills; Reading Tests; *Test Validity
Identifiers: Concepts About Print Test; *Emergent Literacy; Gesell School Readiness Test; Metropolitan Readiness Tests
