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Peer reviewedDallago, Maria Lucia Lopes; Moely, Barbara E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1980
Results indicated recall and category clustering were highest following a manipulation to produce semantic encoding of items and lowest when children focused on items' physical features. Reading disabled boys failed to organize or study as effectively as normals. The reading disabled had difficulty in spontaneously generating effective study…
Descriptors: Children, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedBristow, Page Simpson; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1983
Reports that reading instructional level scores of a teacher constructed informal reading inventory, the commercially prepared Basic Reading Inventory, the Metropolitan Achievement Test, and students' actual level of placement in books are roughly comparable but that the Wide Range Achievement Test reading subtest places children much higher. (FL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Readability
Peer reviewedKrawiec, Rosalind M.; Spadafore, Gerald J. – Reading Improvement, 1983
Concludes that grade level scores on the Brigance Diagnostic Inventory of Basic Skills are consistent with those of the Wide Range Achievement Test. (FL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Download full textSmith, Cyrus F., Jr.; Harrison, Margaret Drumm – 1983
To determine if different graded word lists can be used interchangeably for assessment purposes, and to determine if age, grade, or sex affects performance on the different graded word lists, a study examined the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT), Levels I and II, the San Diego Quick Assessment, and the Graded Word Reading Test by F.J. Schonell.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Males
