The aim of this study is to investigate the project which both assessment of reading and assessment of literary should solve for rating general reading literacy. So I examined the contents of assessment of reading literacy and made a comparison with g...
The aim of this study is to investigate the project which both assessment of reading and assessment of literary should solve for rating general reading literacy. So I examined the contents of assessment of reading literacy and made a comparison with global trend based on the frameworks of existing assessment. College Scholastic Ability Test and National Assessment of Educational Achievement are typical test for assessment of reading literacy in domestic scale. We also have SAT in U.S. and OECD PISA for international test of reading literacy assessment. These kinds of tests classified reading literacy on literary texts as a category of general reading literacy. Therefore I tried to prove the relevance between assessment of reading literacy and assessment of literary competency in this study. Regarding such relevance, following items should be investigated in assessment of reading literacy and assessment of literary competency together. 1) Framework to cover the whole phase of reading literacy should be established theoretically through proving of fundamental elements of reading literacy. 2) We should develop the assessment tools for assessing the inferential process like narrative thinking. 3) It should be considered that reading is important as social act.