Section One: Assessment in the classroom and beyond for tomorrow's schools: Assessment criteria in the first grade / Elizabeth Pryor. Learning about literacy through retelling / Gail G. Smith and Diane Keister. Profiling students' achievement in language and literacy / Gerry Shiel and Patrick Forde. Assessment of reading attitudes / Mary M. Brittain and Clay V. Brittain. "I believe learning is concentrating, figuring things out and sometimes having fun" / Nancy B. Cothern
Section Two: Literacy assessment through portfolios: Involving graduate students in personal literacy evaluation through the use of portfolios / Diane D. Allen. Teachers as learners / Michael P. Ford. Authentic assessment in a university preservice literacy course / Deborah R. Dillon [et al.]. A model for preparing preservice and inservice teachers to interpret and utilize portfolio assessment / Rebecca P. Harlin and Sally E. Lipa. The challenge of change / Barbara Martin Palmer, Marie E. Holahan and Judy Ramoy Johnstone. Literacy portfolios / Linda Irwin-DeVitis. Pre and post course literacy self-assessment / Jane Brady Matanzo. Rethinking the role and practice of assessment in teacher education
/ N. Suzanne Standerford. Portfolio assessment in adult education programs / Linda Thistlethwaite. Assessing developmental learners' perceptions of reading and writing and the literacy demands in college / Maria Valeri-Gold. The ALERT / Rita M. Bean [et al.]. Developing and assessing emergent literacy through children's literature / Nancy A. Anderson.
