1. Inquiry-Oriented Assessment, Sheila W. Valencia

2. A Pathway for Connecting Standards with Assessment: Backward Mapping of Assessment Tasks, Mark W. Conley and Kristine Gritter

3. Promoting and Assessing Effective Literacy Learning Classroom Environments, D. Ray Reutzel and Lesley Mandel Morrow

4. Assessing Children's Motivation for Reading and Writing, Linda B. Gambrell and Victoria Ridgeway Gillis

II. Assessing Word Knowledge and Reading Fluency

5. Language and Literacy Assessment in Preschool, Lea M. McGee

6. Assessing Word Recognition, David Chard, Sara McDonagh, Sangeun Lee, and Virginia Reece

7. Effective Oral Reading Assessment (or Why Round Robin Reading Doesn't Cut It), Melanie R. Kuhn

8. Assessing Students' Spelling Knowledge: Relationships to Reading and Writing, Shane Templeton, Donald R. Bear, and Sandra Madura

III. Assessing Comprehension and Composition

9. Assessing Vocabulary: Examining Knowledge about Words and about Word Learning, Janis M. Harmon, Wanda B. Hedrick, Lina Soares, and Michelle Gress

10. Assessing Literacy Understanding through Book Talk, Nancy L. Roser with Charles Fuhrken and Peggy Semingson

11. Assessing Strategic Reading, Peter Afflerbach, Heather Ruetschlin, and Sharon Russell

12. Assessing Students' Understanding of Informational Text in Intermediate- and Middle-Level Classrooms, Karen D. Wood, D. Bruce Taylor, Brenda Drye, and M. Joyce Brigman

13. Assessing Student Writing, Karen Bromley

IV. Broadening the Context: Looking across Assessments, Classrooms, and Schools

14. A Classroom Portfolio System: Assessment Is Instruction, Susan Mandel Glazer

15. Formative Uses of Assessment: Cases from the Primary Grades, Camille L. Z. Blachowicz, Roberta Buhle, Sharon Frost, and Ann Bates

16. Authentic Assessment of Authentic Student Work in Urban Classrooms, Kathryn Glasswell and William H. Teale

17. Putting CIA System to Work: Linking Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment to Improve Student Achievement, Douglas Fisher, Diane Lapp, Nancy Frey, James Flood, and Kelly Moore

18. Developing an Individualized Education Plan: What Counts as Evidence?, Rachel L. McCormack, P. David Pearson, and Jeanne R. Paratore

19. Classroom Assessment and Standards-Based Change, Kathryn Au and Taffy Raphael