writing about reading
In 2017 Prof P David Pearson delivered the OUCEA Annual Lecture at the Ashmolean Museum on 25th May.
‘Recent Developments in Reading Assessment in the USA National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP): An Analysis of Conceptual, Digital, Psychometric, and Policy Trends’
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/recent-developments-reading-assessment-usa-national-assessment-educational-progress-naep… Read the rest
We were invited to contribute to this volume on science and literacy instruction in light of the NGSS based on an earlier Science (2010) article by Pearson, Moje, and Greenleaf. This piece was an opportunity to find connections among our various projects on literacy in science, which had been developed for students at different grade levels and guided by different principles and goals.… Read the rest
This report of a randomized field trial also describes the conceptual bases of what we came to call, Seeds of Science–Roots of Reading, a long term project of a collaboration between the Lawrence Hall of Science and the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley.… Read the rest
This analysis of the history, prospects, and problems of qualitative approaches to gauging text complexity appeared, along with several related articles, in a special issue, edited by Freddy and me, in 2014. … Read the rest
The Elementary School Journal, 115(2), 270-289.
This is the third in a series of 3 papers that Sheila and Karen and I have written to make a case for what we call Text-Task-Scenarios–a framework that suggests that constructs like reader ability, text complexity, and reading assessment are better viewed as situated (they result from unique and particular combinations of relevant variables) than constitutive (they are not inherent characteristics of entities like people, texts, or tasks).… Read the rest
Michael, Freddy, and I have long shared an interest in vocabulary–its learning, assessment, and pedagogy. We undertook this effort to characterize three faces of vocabulary assessment–its conceptual base, its theoretical assumptions, and its format and operationalization. … Read the rest
The four of us (Sheila, Karen, Charlie, and I) were key movers in the novel assessments developed for Michigan (Karen and Charlie) and Illinois (Sheila and I) in the late 1980s. This piece, written primarily for policy makers, outlines the rationale behind these efforts.… Read the rest
Linda Darling Hammond asked Joey and me to write this piece for one of her volumes of RRE. We did not know what a treat we were in for when we acquired Ed Gordon as our consulting editor. How much we learned!… Read the rest
This is the last of a series of 3 empirical papers on the work that a team of us, led by Barbara, wrote based on our six year line of work trying to unmask the elements of successful reform in early literacy.… Read the rest