Which assessment is designed to develop critical readers through instruction in group comprehension, requiring children's active engagement in reading?

• A. Internal Consistency
• B. DR-TA
• C. Concurrent Validity
• D. DRA

Answer: (D)

Developing critical readers through group comprehension hinges on guiding students to actively think about and discuss what they’re reading. The approach that fits this description is Directed Reading-Thinking Activity: students read in a group while the teacher prompts them to predict what might happen, ask questions, clarify confusing parts, and summarize as they go. This structure keeps students engaged, requires them to articulate their thinking, and back up interpretations with evidence from the text, which builds deeper, more critical reading skills.

In contrast, Developmental Reading Assessment is a measurement tool used to determine a child’s reading level and track progress, not a classroom strategy that fosters group-based reading discussion. Terms like internal consistency and concurrent validity refer to how reliable or valid a test is, not to instructional methods. So the described approach best matching the goal of developing critical readers through active, group reading is the directed reading-thinking strategy.