<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">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.  <div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.nagb.gov/naep-results/reading-comprehension-symposium.html">https://www.nagb.gov/naep-results/reading-comprehension-symposium.html</a></div><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Cambria;border-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold""><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-size:12px;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br></div><div><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size:13px">"There are always flowers for those who want to see them." - </span><b style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size:13px">Henri Matisse</b><br></div><div>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div>P. David Pearson</div><div>Evelyn Lois Corey <b>Emeritus</b> Professor of Instructional Science</div><div>Graduate School of Education</div><div>University of California, Berkeley</div><div><br></div><div>email:  <a href="mailto:ppearson@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">ppearson@berkeley.edu</a></div><div>other e-mail:  <a href="mailto:pdavidpearsondean@gmail.com" target="_blank">pdavidpearsondean@gmail.com</a></div><div><span style="text-decoration:underline">website for publications</span>:  <a href="http://www.pdavidpearson.org" target="_blank">www.pdavidpearson.org</a></div><div></div><div>*******************</div><div><b><font color="#674ea7">Please use HOME ADDRESS for responses</font></b></div><div>Home:  851 Euclid Ave</div><div>Berkeley, CA  94708 -1305</div><div>iPhone:  510 543 6508</div><div>****************************************</div><div><br></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>