[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Thought you might be interested in this symposium

[Mckeown, Margaret G]

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.

Moddy McKeown

Margaret G. McKeown, Ph. D.
Clinical Professor Emerita, Instruction and Learning
School of Education
Senior Scientist, Learning Research and Development Center
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
mckeown at pitt.edu<mailto:mckeown at pitt.edu>

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From: <reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> on behalf of P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu>
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 1:26 PM
To: reading hall of fame <reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Thought you might be interested in this symposium

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.

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.

David

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