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Direct linkJessica Williams; Thomastine Sarchet; Dawn Walton – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2024
More U.S. community college students are enrolling without the requisite reading skills to be successful. Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students are following a similar pattern with a little less than half requiring remedial instruction when entering college. College-age readers were the first population that we studied to learn about reading and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Freshmen, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
Peer reviewedReynolds, H. N. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1986
Analysis of deaf college students' (N=100) performance on the Degrees of Reading Power test (which assesses reading comprehension with use of a modified cloze procedure) revealed that postlingually deaf students scored higher than prelingually deaf students. Scores correlated with degree of hearing loss for prelingually deaf students and…
Descriptors: Adventitious Impairments, Cloze Procedure, College Students, Congenital Impairments
Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Argues that the Degrees of Reading Power test is not a valid tool for its main purpose, matching students to appropriate texts, because the test's units of text difficulty are not uniformly comparable to the test's units used to reflect a reader's ability. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Ability
Download full textSnyder, Jon; And Others – 1993
A pilot study explored the nature of the relationship between test and classroom evidence and considered how these different sources of evidence were used in assessing and promoting student growth and development in reading. Test estimates of third-grade children in two public elementary programs in New York City were compared with estimates of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools, Grade 3
