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Bianchini, John C.; Vale, Carol A. – 1975
As part of an investigation of the appropriateness of the original Anchor Test Study equating results for black and Spanish-surnamed students, this Appendix lists the detailed results of the analyses for grade four, organized by vocabulary, reading comprehension, and total reading scores. For each analysis, a two-page set of results is presented.…
Descriptors: Bias, Black Students, Elementary Education, Equated Scores

Bianchini, John C.; Vale, Carol A. – 1975
As part of an investigation of the appropriateness of the original Anchor Test Study equating results for black and Spanish-surnamed students, this Appendix lists the detailed results of the analyses for grade five, organized by vocabulary, reading comprehension, and total reading scores. For each analysis, a two-page set of results is presented.…
Descriptors: Bias, Black Students, Elementary Education, Equated Scores

Bianchini, John C.; Vale, Carol A. – 1975
As part of an investigation of the appropriateness of the original Anchor Test Study equating results for black and Spanish-surnamed students, this Appendix lists the detailed results of the analyses for grade six, origanized by vocabulary, reading comprehension, and total reading scores. For each analysis, a two-page set of results is presented.…
Descriptors: Bias, Black Students, Elementary Education, Equated Scores

Massaro, Dominic W.; Taylor, Glen A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
A perceptual-recognition task was used to assess whether utilization of orthographic structure in letter recognition varies with reading ability. Good and poor college readers showed equally large effects of orthographic structure on task accuracy, whereas poor sixth-grade readers did not. (Author/GK)
Descriptors: College Students, Grade 6, Higher Education, Intermediate Grades

Bianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score on any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the study presents new estimates of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Elementary School Students, Equated Scores, Grade 4
Bianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score on any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…
Descriptors: Administration, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Data Collection
Bianchini, John C.; Vale, Carol A. – 1975
The Anchor Test Study (ATS) yielded equating tables for vocabulary, reading comprehension, and total reading scores for eight commonly used reading tests at the 4th, 5th, and 6th grade levels. Because of the original ATS sampling design which resulted in a nationally representative sample of school children at those grades, the equating tables…
Descriptors: Bias, Black Students, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Bianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…
Descriptors: Administration, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Data Collection
Bianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
This user's manual contains the major products of the data collection of the Anchor Test Study, a 34 volume report equating scores of eight widely used reading tests for grades 4, 5, and 6 in reading comprehension, vocabulary, and total reading. This manual provides: (1) equivalency tables which allow transformation of raw scores on one reading…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Equated Scores, Grade 4, Grade 5
Bianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score on any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Equated Scores, Grade 4, Grade 5