The cultural practice of reading and the standardized assessment of reading instruction: When incommensurate worlds collide

Educational Researcher

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 522-527

  Smagorinsky, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Cultural analysis; Literacy; Measurements; reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953481096     PISSN: 0013189X     EISSN: 1935102X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X09347583     Document Type: Article

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