Nell K. Duke, co-director of LARC and associate professor of teacher education and educational psychology, has developed two new assessments of informational reading comprehension for grades one through three: the Concepts of Comprehension Assessment (COCA) and the Informational Strategic Cloze Assessment (ISCA). Both assessments are designed to measure four contributors to reading comprehension:
• comprehension strategy use
• vocabulary strategy use and knowledge
• knowledge of informational text features
• comprehension of graphics in the context of text
The COCA and ISCA were developed with generous support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Literacy Achievement Research Center. Both are available for free from the LARC website.
