Return-Path: <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j7AGJWG00366; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:19:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:19:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <006d01c59dc8$57a665b0$0602a8c0@frodo> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Marie Cora" <marie.cora@hotspurpartners.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:1216] New assessment resources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 1185 Lines: 33 Good day and evening to you all, ETS (Educational Testing Service) has a couple of new computer-based literacy assessments out - one that focuses on prose, document, and quantitative literacy skills (PDQ), and one that focuses on health literacy. Here's a snippet from the press release: "The PDQ Profile Series and the Health Activities Literacy Test capitalize on new computer technologies that allow for automatic presentation, scoring, scaling and reporting of the everyday open-ended literacy tasks." Here is the link to the press release which provides further information on these new resources: http://www.ets.org/news/05081001.html Perhaps it would be interesting and useful for us to discuss these assessments once people have started to engage with them. Keep that in mind - I can propose this suggestion again later in the year. And if you decide to adopt/use these tests, do let me know and we can fix up some discussion based on your experiences. Thanks, marie cora Moderator, NIFL Assessment Discussion List, and Coordinator/Developer LINCS Assessment Special Collection at http://literacy.kent.edu/Midwest/assessment/ marie.cora@hotspurpartners.com
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