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Oral Reading Fluency Assessment: Issues of Construct, Criterion, and Consequential Validity
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Valencia, Sheila W.; Smith, Antony T.; Reece, Anne M.; Li, Min; Wixson, Karen K.; Newman, Heather – Reading Research Quarterly, 2010
This study investigated multiple models for assessing oral reading fluency, including 1-minute oral reading measures that produce scores reported as words correct per minute (wcpm). We compared a measure of wcpm with measures of the individual and combined indicators of oral reading fluency (rate, accuracy, prosody, and comprehension) to examine…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Tests, Test Validity
The Use of the WISC-R, Otis, Iowa, and SRBCSS in Identifying Gifted Elementary Students
Hunter, John A., Jr.; Lowe, James D., Jr. – Southern Journal of Educational Research, 1978
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children Revised (WISC-R) was administered to 34 elementary students scoring "gifted" on the Otis, Iowa, and SRBCSS (Scale for Rating Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students). Results indicated a combination of the Otis, Iowa, and SRBCSS was moderately effective in predicting the Full Scale…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Gifted, Grade 4
Correspondence Across Three Ethnic Groups of Constructs Measured by the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills
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Thompson, Bruce; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1978
A random sample of all sixth-grade students enrolled in a large urban school district completed the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. The correspondence of test vectors measured by the test was analyzed. Results suggest that the ITBS does not measure exactly the same constructs across student ethnic groups. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Children, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
A Comparative Study of the Reliability and Validity of the Degrees of Reading Power and the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills.
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Hildebrand, Myrene; Hoover, H. D. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1987
Reliability and validity of "Degrees of Reading Power" test and "Iowa Tests of Basic Skills" reading comprehension and vocabulary tests were compared. Test scores, grades, and assigned reading levels of 191 fifth and sixth graders and 186 sixth and seventh graders in an eastern Iowa school district were used. Reliability and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6
An Investigation of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills for Sex Bias: A Developmental Look.
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Plake, Barbara S.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1980
Results of the Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, and Mathematics Concepts subtests of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills were analyzed for sex bias. On the whole, little evidence for sex bias was found for the four subtests and three grade levels examined. (Author)
Descriptors: Bias, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Junior High School Students
The Effect of Item Format on Students' Standardized Mathematics Achievement Test Scores.
White, Karl R.; Carcelli, Larry – 1982
The effect on children's test scores of different item formats used in standardized mathematics achievement tests was investigated. In a Utah school, 40 second grade students completed a mathematics computation test using eight different formats derived from five standardized achievement tests. Identical content, taken from the most frequently…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Computation, Elementary School Mathematics