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Download full textShanahan, Timothy; Kamil, Michael L. – 1983
To investigate the causes of variation in cloze-comprehension test correlations, a reanalysis was conducted of the influential J.R. Bormuth study (1962), which reported correlations between nine cloze and nine comprehension tests administered to 50 subjects in grades 4, 5, and 6. Two separate renalayses were completed in the present study, the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cloze Procedure, Correlation, Predictor Variables
Peer reviewedBoisclair, Andree; Sirois, Pauline – CAEDHH Journal/La Revue ACESM, 1996
Severity of hearing loss predicted poor reading comprehension scores for children with reading impairments in Grade 3 (N=67) and Grade 6 (N=36) in a study done in five areas of Quebec (Canada). Good scores of a few Grade 6 students with severe hearing loss indicated that these students can keep up if wide gaps do not exist at the outset of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Deafness, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedGarrison, Wayne; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1992
This study examined characteristics of multiple-choice reading comprehension tasks suspected of influencing their difficulty, through administration of the California Achievement Tests to 158 deaf college students. Problem components evaluated included manifest content, psychologically salient features, and processing demands. Variation in item…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Deafness, Difficulty Level
Espin, Christine A.; Deno, Stanley L. – Diagnostique, 1995
This study of 121 10th-grade students investigated the criterion-related validity of 2 potential curriculum-based measurements, reading from text and identifying vocabulary meaning, for predicting student performance on content-area study tasks. Correlational and multiple regression techniques found the vocabulary measure to be the stronger…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Curriculum Based Assessment, Evaluation Methods, High School Students
Valadez, Concepcion M.; McNiel, John D. – 1983
A study examined the reading skills of minority and bilingual auto mechanics and office workers in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in order to determine the relationship between the reading skills tested in competency-based exams given in high schools and those required for on-the-job performance. The first phase of the study included both…
Descriptors: Auto Mechanics, Bilingualism, Criterion Referenced Tests, Job Performance
Layton, Kent – 1983
A study was conducted to determine if a teacher-constructed cloze procedure correlated significantly with two standardized tests of reading achievement, thereby testing G.D. Spache's claim that most teachers are unable to design valid and reliable assessment materials. Subjects were 60 fourth and sixth grade students who were administered the…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Grade 4, Grade 6
