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The Test of Reading Comprehension is designed to help teachers assess reading comprehension skills in students from Year 3 to Year 10. The Test of Reading Comprehension is designed to help teachers assess reading comprehension skills in students from years 3–10. The third edition of the TORCH replaces TORCH-2 and TORCH Plus, building on popular features of these assessments and providing nine new passages and items. The illustrated Test Booklet contains 16 fiction and non-fiction reading passages in a variety of text types. Test items are classified according to the Reader Behaviour Framework, which can be used to inform teaching and learning.
TORCH can be used for a number of purposes, including:
- providing an estimate of reading achievement
- providing information for setting goals and planning learning activities
- identifying areas of strengths and weaknesses for individual students or within a class
- monitoring student reading achievement over time
The TORCH-3 User Guide is a short guide to testing with TORCH, which provides a quick how-to guide for selecting appropriate passages for your student, administering TORCH, scoring and reporting, interpreting results, case studies and technical information. The TORCH-3 Teacher manual has more detailed information about the TORCH assessment and updates to this edition as well as detailed information on the topics covered in the user guide. The TORCH-3 Specimen Set includes:
- 1 test booklet
- 1 of each of the 16 answer sheets
- 1 user guide
- 1 teacher manual
- USB with copymasters of the score keys, norm tables, and individual and group reports.
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