Title Reading comprehension research and testing in the U.S. : undercurrents of race, class, and power in the struggle for meaning / Arlette Ingram Willis

Published New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 374 pages) Contents Western European philosophical foundations of reading comprehension research and testing -- Ideological and philosophical foundations of reading comprehension research and testing -- Reservoir of themes and premises : social influences of early concepts of reading comprehension -- Producing early reading comprehension research and testing -- World War I and the development of reading comprehension and research testing -- Reproducing and producing reading comprehension research and testing -- Reading comprehension research and testing reinvents itself -- Federal involvement in reading comprehension research and testing Summary This book challenges traditional, sanctioned, and official histories of reading comprehension by examining how ideological and cultural hegemony work to reproduce dominant ideologies through education in general and reading comprehension research and testing specifically. Willis analyzes the ideological and cultural foundations that underpin concepts, theories, research, tests, and interpretations, and connects these to the broader social and political contexts within U.S. history in which reading comprehension research and testing have evolved. The reconstruction of a history of reading comprehension research and testing in this way demystifies past and current assumptions about the interconnections among researchers, reading comprehension research, and standardized reading comprehension tests. A promising vision of the future of reading comprehension research and testing emerges-one that is more complex, multidimensional, inclusive, and socially just.Reading Comprehension Research and Testing in the U.S. aims to revolutionize how reading comprehension is conceived, theorized, tested, and interpreted for all children. This is a critically relevant volume for educational researchers, teacher educators, school administrators, teachers, policy makers, and all those concerned with school literacy and educational equity Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-361) and indexes Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Reading comprehension -- Research -- Social aspects -- United States -- History Reading comprehension -- Ability testing -- Social aspects -- United States -- History Discrimination in education -- United States -- History LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Reading Skills. Discrimination in education Unterprivilegierung Leseverstehen Chancengleichheit Schüler United States USA Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2007018696 ISBN 9781135610357 1135610355 9780203928608 0203928601 9781135610302 1135610304 9781135610340 1135610347 1283607182 9781283607186 9786613919632 6613919632

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