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<p class="MsoNormal">I attended this webinar, and it was a lively and interesting session! Gina did an excellent job in her wrap up. A key point she made was that in trying to attend to background knowledge, it is important to distinguish between knowledge
that is inherent to the construct of reading comprehension (linguistic, genre) and topic knowledge, which is construct irrelevant.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Margaret G. McKeown, Ph. D.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><reading-hall-of-fame-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk> on behalf of P Pearson <ppearson@berkeley.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 1:26 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>reading hall of fame <reading-hall-of-fame@lists.nottingham.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Reading-hall-of-fame] Thought you might be interested in this symposium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here's the intro and a link a video zoom symposium that the National Assessment Governing Board held about how to account for the influence of topic knowledge on comprehension. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Gina Cervetti represented the Development Panel charged with developing the new 2026 NAEP Framework; she outlined the "tools and features" proposed in the new Framework to account for the topic knowledge influence. Daniel Willingham delivered
a classic psycholinguistic view of the knowledge-comprehension relationship, and several other representatives from wide-scale assessments (PISA, PIRLS, GISA, SBAC, Louisiana) talked about how they try to mitigate topic knowledge as a potential source of bias
and construct-irrelevant variance in their assessments. Gina closed by responding to all the other efforts, comparing their approaches with what is contemplated in NAEP. A discussion by the NAGB followed. Informative, lively, occasionally controversial. <o:p></o:p></p>
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