JoAnne Schudt Caldwell, PhD, is Professor Emerita at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she also served as Associate Dean of the College of Education and Leadership. Dr. Caldwell is the author of Comprehension Assessment: A Classroom Guide. She is also coauthor (with Lauren Leslie) of the Qualitative Reading Inventory, 5th Edition, an informal reading inventory; of Intervention Strategies to Follow Reading Inventory Assessment: What Do I Do Now?; and (with Joyce Holt Jennings and Janet W. Lerner) of Reading Problems: Assessment and Teaching Strategies.
1. New Initiatives and New Concerns: How Have They Influenced Reading
Assessment? 2. Purposes of Reading Assessment: What Do Good Readers Do and
How Can Teachers and Coaches Assess This? 3. Methods of Assessment: What
Are the Different Kinds of Assessments and What Do They Tell Us about
Reading Performance? 4. Assessment as Part of Instruction: How Can We
Assess as We Teach? 5. The Informal Reading Inventory Process: How Does It
Address the Purposes of Reading Assessment? 6. Early Literacy: What Do We
Need to Know about Beginning Readers? 7. Word Identification: How Can We
Assess a Student's Word Identification Ability? 8. Reading Fluency: How Can
We Assess Reading Fluency? 9. Vocabulary Knowledge: How Can We Assess
Comprehension of Words? 10. Comprehension of Text: How Can We Assess
Understanding of Text? 11. Schoolwide Reading Assessment: How Can We
Collect, Organize, and Present Classroom Data? General Summary. Assessing
the Good Reader Behaviors and the Common Core State Standards
