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Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing by the Joint Task Force on Assessment of the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English, 2010, 53 pp., ISBN 978-0-87207-776-8
The fourth text was authored by the Joint Task Force on Assessment of the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English. The task force developed 11 standards that teacher advocates can use to help ensure that reading assessments for all students are effective means of gathering data to inform instruction. Those standards are as follows:
1. The interests of the student are paramount in assessment.
2. The teacher is the most important agent of assessment.
3. The primary purpose of assessment is to improve teaching and learning.
4. Assessment must reflect and allow for critical inquiry into curriculum and instruction.
5. Assessment must recognize and reflect the intellectually and socially complex nature of reading and writing and the important roles of school, home, and society in literacy development.
6. Assessment must be fair and equitable.
7. The consequences of an assessment procedure are the first and most important consideration in establishing the validity of the instrument.
8. The assessment process should involve multiple perspectives and sources of data.
9. Assessment must be...