The materials testing process

Literacy materials can never be considered finished products. They need continual informal assessment and periodic formal assessment to assure that they are still appropriate and effective. They must be revised as needed so they continue to produce the desired results in a literacy program.

You should test and revise literacy materials at several stages in their development and use.

• Check the product carefully at each stage of production.

• Test, evaluate, revise, retest, and revise trial copies as necessary before printing the finished product.

• Continue to test the product as it is used.

• Evaluate test results and revise if necessary before using the product again.

• Process module: The materials testing process, by Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In overview module: Literacy materials, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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