Language Arts & Disciplines, Reading Skills

Children and Reading Tests (Advances in Discourse Processes Series)

Name: Children and Reading Tests (Advances in Discourse Processes Series)
Author: Clifford Hill
ISBN: 9781567504453

by Clifford Hill, Eric Larsen

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author, Clifford Hill

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.

ERIC LARSON is Adjunct Professor and instructor at the Department on International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University.