Alternative Perspectives in Assessing Children's Language and Literacy

Introduction: What Is an Alternative? THE NEED FOR ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES Language, Culture, and the Implications of Assessment Toward an Alternative View of Writing Assessment /Anthropological Perspectives on Assessing Children's Language and Literacy The Language of Testing: An Ethnographic-Sociolinguistic Perspective on Standardized Tests You Can't Get There from Here Assessing Students as Members of a Literate Community Discussion: Assessment in My World SOCIO-PSYCHOLINGUISTIC Perspectives on Assessing Children's Language and Literacy Alternative Language Assessment: Communicating Naturally with Students in Assessment Contexts Assessing the Written Language Abilities of Beginning Writers Looking at Their Own Words: Students' Assessment of Their Own Writing Discussion: Making Assessment a Process Reader Response Perspectives on Assessing Children's Language and Literacy Children's Response to Literature: Isn't It Time We Said Good-Bye to Book Reports and Literal Oral Book Discussions? Assessing Literary Understanding Through Oral Language Children's Group Discussions of Literature: Fertile Ground for Informal Oral Language Assessment Discussion: Unleashing the Potential of Children's Responses to Literature Subject Index Author IndexKathleen Holland is the author of 'Alternative Perspectives in Assessing Children's Language and Literacy', published 1994 under ISBN 9780893919146 and ISBN 0893919144.