Children and Reading Tests

by Clifford Hill, Eric Larsen

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781567504453
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/16/2000
Series:	Advances in Discourse Processes Series , #65
Pages:	446
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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./e In addition, he directs the Program in African Languages at the Institute of African Studies, which is housed in the School of International and Public Affairs.

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

Table of Contents

Introduction
Context of Study esting Reader Parsimony
Truncated Narratives
Excerpted Narratives
Gapped Narratives
Testing Reader Flexibility
Shifting Frames
Resolving Polarities
Changing Registers
Conclusions
Implications of the Study
Glossary
References
Author Index
Subject Index