Dear Colleagues,

Below please fine the announcement of the new Special Topics List
sponsored by the National Institute for Literacy. The moderator of the
List is David Rosen.  Please read further for a full description of this
new List.

David's first topic will be focused on the Adult Reading Components
Study, or ARCS, as it is known.  A discussion on ARCS was held on the
Assessment Discussion List in April of 2005 - just over a year ago - and
you can find information on ARCS as well as a summary of that Discussion
at the ALE Wiki by going to the Discussions in the Assessment section:

http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Assessment_Information#Discussion
s

and clicking on:  ARCS Reading Diagnostic

For those of you who are not familiar with ARCS, I highly recommend that
you sign on to this Discussion to learn more about the resource tool.
For those of you who were here last year for that Discussion, I
encourage you to sign on to find out what has been learned about ARCS
over the past year, or to ask questions and make comments if you have
been using ARCS.

Thanks and hope to see you there!

marie cora
Assessment Discussion List Moderator
marie.cora at hotspurpartners.com


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New Special Topics Discussion List

Dear Colleague,

On May 23rd we will begin a week-long discussion on the new National  
Institute for Literacy Special Topics electronic list.  The topic is  
the Adult Reading Components Study (ARCS).  Dr. Rosalind Davidson and  
Dr. John Strucker, the co-researchers, will join us to answer your  
questions.

Special Topics will be an intermittent discussion list.  The topics  
will open and close throughout the year, so there will be periods  
where there will be no discussion or postings. You can subscribe to  
the e-list for a particular topic of interest, and then unsubscribe,  
or you can stay subscribed throughout the year.  To participate in  
this first topic, the Adult Reading Components Study, and to learn  
more about the ARCS interactive Web site -- which has lots of reading  
help for teachers --  please subscribe to the Special Topics list now  
by going to:

http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/specialtopics

Before the discussion begins on May 23rd please look at a 30-minute  
streaming video introduction to the discussion with researcher  
panelists Rosalind Davidson and John Strucker, and practitioners Kay  
Vaccaro and Jane Meyer.

http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/webcasts/20040204/webcast02-04a.html
(Note: Macintosh users will need to have Real Player installed, and  
for them performance may not be optimal.)

After you subscribe, you can send your questions to the discussion  
list.  Note, however, that messages will not be posted until May 22nd.

I look forward to having you join us in this discussion.


David J. Rosen
Special Topics Discussion List Moderator
djrosen at comcast.net