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The Role of Informal Reading Inventories in Assessing Word Recognition
Author(s) -
Walpole Sharon,
McKenna Michael C.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1598/rt.59.6.10
Subject(s) - reading (process) , psychology , point (geometry) , word recognition , word (group theory) , reading level , mathematics education , cognitive psychology , linguistics , philosophy , geometry , mathematics
In the controversy concerning high‐stakes testing in reading, there is one point on which few disagree: Such tests provide little or no useful information to aid teachers in understanding the needs of individual children. The authors suggest that informal reading inventories can serve useful purposes in classroom‐level assessment, but that their proper role is as an initial screening instrument. The results must be followed up by more specific assessments in areas of concern, designed to identify instructional needs.