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 j5NHU1G10292; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:30:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:30:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <51AC26EF.74D92AE4.0A349A3F@aol.com> 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: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:1125] RE: Tom Sticht's concerns about ALL X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 1219 Lines: 11 I don't want to through this wonderfully balanced discussion off course, but i do want to clarify a couple of things. I agree with Debbie that how on earth the field can become professionalized (people with lots of specialized knowledge) is beyond our scope right now. Multiple reasons. OK--TABE. I read what Marie said--it is not a reading test--and I thought: of course it isn't! Because you never hear a person reading! Then I rethought that. If it isn't a reading test, what is it? It does seem to meet the criteria I advanced for "reading" as a mostly taught-in-school subject. Some illumination here would be useful. Literacy. It can include both dimensions--concept and set of skills (these need to be defined somehow), it depends where you look on a vertical continuum. I can imagine looking at a set of skills that I am teaching people, and that are different from straight reading. As I go on looking at this set of skills, it occurs to me that they can be bundled together as a concept, literacy, as I defined it in my earlier post. I really appreciate the informed minds that are brought together this week on the list serv, and thanks to Marie and respondents for doing this. Andrea
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