Painting a Picture of Adolescent Readers: Implications and Challenges of Assessment

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this symposium, research will be presented about assessment protocols for adolescent readers and implications for teachers. Challenges of identifying the various needs of struggling older readers will be examined as well as how research can investigate the use of assessment to address these needs. Initial findings demonstrate the need to better understand how assessment can be used to make literacy instruction more equitable while addressing the need for better assessments to use with adolescents.

Content Area

• Area 6: Adolescent, College, and Adult Literacy Processes

Chair

• Michael McKenna, University of Virginia

Discussant

• Gay Ivey, UW Madison

Individual Presentations

• Development of a quick, valid informal reading assessment for students in middle school grades - Ali Mitnick Wilson, Appalachian State University

• Reinforcing Recreational Reading to Improve Academic Literacy Skills? Investigating Implications of the Relationship Between Comprehension Proficiency and Attitudes Towards Texts - Sarah M Lupo, University of Virginia; Michael McKenna, University of Virginia; Bong Gee Jang, Syracuse University

• The relationship between student achievement and motivation profiles - Dixie D. Massey, University of Washington