Reading for Understanding — Publications

These are some recent publications that ETS and our collaborators have authored related to the assessment strand of the Reading for Understanding initiative.

2012

• Middle School Reading Assessment: Measuring What Matters Under a RTI framework. Reading Psychology Special Issue: Response to Intervention
  T. O'Reilly, J. Sabatini, J., K. Bruce, S. Pillarisetti, & C. McCormick
  Reading Psychology, Vol. 33, No. 1–2, pp 162–189

  In this article, the authors present a prototype reading assessment of component and integrated reading skills. The work is part of an effort to conceptualize, prototype and test aspects of a framework in the context of the Response to Intervention approach. Read the publisher's full abstract.

• Psychometric Analysis of the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation Assessment
  Y. Petscher, C. M. Conner, & S. Al Otaiba
  Assessment for Effective Intervention, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 243–250

  This article describes a study of the psychometrics of the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation-Screening Test (DELV-S). Read the publisher's full abstract.

• Measuring Up: Advances in How We Assess Reading Ability
  Editors: J. Sabatini, E. R. Albro, & T. O'Reilly
  Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

  In this book, educational researchers question the traditional format of reading comprehension tests and offer ideas and innovations for future reading assessments. Read the publisher's full description of this book.

• Reaching an Understanding: Innovations in How We View Reading Assessment
  Editors: J. Sabatini, T. O'Reilly & E. R. Albro
  Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

  This follows the editors' arguments in the previous volume, Measuring Up: Advances in How We Assess Reading Ability,by describing some early attempts to apply theory to new assessments and measurement models. Read the publisher's full description of this book.