Assessing Middle and High School Reading

Although aimed at teachers and school administrators, this major report just released by the Carnegie Corporation on assessing adolescent reading will be of great interest to school-based mentoring and tutoring programs, and afterschool programs with a strong academic focus. A companion report to Carnegie's Time to Act (http://carnegie.org/literacy/tta/pdf/tta_Main.pdf), it analyzes and rates commonly used reading comprehension tests for various elements and purposes and outlines trends in types of questions, stress on critical thinking, and screening or diagnostic functions.

Measure for Measure: A Critical Consumers' Guide to Reading Comprehension Assessments for Adolescents
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Morsy, Leila; Michael Kieffer; Catherine Snow
September, 2009
http://carnegie.org/literacy/tta/pdf/tta_Morsy.pdf