Access Reading Test
- 30 minutes
- Diagnostic
- Parallel forms
Wide-range standardised reading assessment
Colin McCarty and Mary Crumpler
The popular Access Reading Test is purpose-designed for wide-range assessment from age 7 to 20+ years, and pinpoints strengths and weaknesses in four key reading skill areas:
- Literal comprehension
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension requiring inference or prediction and opinions
- Comprehension requiring analysis
Two parallel test forms A and B each contain 60 questions based on carefully matched reading experiences, allowing reliable retesting and progress monitoring over time. The test may be given to groups or individuals: it takes just 30 minutes to administer, and is quick and easy to score. The manual also describes how to use the test to help establish if a student may be eligible for extra time in national tests or examinations.
The gradually increasing difficulty allows students to meet a variety of graded texts (fiction and non-fiction) and styles - the level of demand ranges from reading strategies, vocabulary and literacy skills appropriate to Key Stages 2 and 3, to the vocabulary and grammatical structures associated with GCSE. This ensures that the test is valid across a wide age and ability range.
The Access Reading Test gives standardised scores, reading ages and percentiles, together with information about the average scores for each year group in each skill area. An optional Scorer/Profiler CD-ROM (view demo) enables instant, accurate age and score calculations and detailed group performance listings.
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Access Reading Test-interactive
(network and single-user versions)
The Access Reading Test-interactive is purpose-designed for on-screen, wide-range standardised assessment, with two parallel forms. Normed for ages 7 to adult, it provides instant scoring and diagnostic feedback, plus an unobtrusive (optional) 'extra time' assessment.
Access Reading Test-interactive:
- offers fully standardised on-screen assessment - with instant scoring - in just 30 minutes
- provides parallel forms A & B to allow reliable 'before and after' testing and progress monitoring
- automatically calculates standardised scores, percentiles and reading ages
- profiles four key aspects of reading comprehension and generates individual profiles
- flags reading ages which are a year or more behind chronological age
- is ideal for one-to-one assessments, including 'extra time' assessment for examination access arrangements
Additionally, the network version generates a comprehensive range of class and whole yeargroup performance analyses and reports
Both versions come with a two-year licence which sets no limit to the number of pupils you can assess. A comprehensive User's Manual (supplied as a pdf file on the CD-ROM) gives full information on how to use and get the most out of the system.
Access Reading Test-interactive - network version (view demo)
Access Reading Test-interactive - single-user version (view demo)
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