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Two New WCER Working Papers Posted

October 20, 2008

In "Learning to Read Across Time: Negotiations and Affiliations of a Reader, Grades 1-8" Catherine Compton-Lilly provides a case study of one child, Alicia, to explore how children’s identities as readers are constructed across time as they move thorough school. Attention to time helps explain how students draw on ongoing, familial, and historical resources in ways that are both recursive and future-oriented as they construct themselves as readers across long periods of time. Read Working Paper 2008-9.

In “Policy Effectiveness of Interim Assessments in Providence Public Schools,” William H. Clune and Paula A. White discuss how the Providence (RI) Public School District implemented a well-crafted system of interim assessments to supplement annual testing. They found some evidence of effectiveness as well as some limitations. Read Working Paper 2008-10.