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Download full textShanahan, Timothy – 1982
A study examined the relationship of multiple measures of reading and writing at the second and fifth grade levels. Multiple reading tests (measuring vocabulary, word recognition, sentence comprehension, and passage comprehension) and writing tests (evaluating vocabulary diversity and syntactic complexity, and providing qualitative and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 2, Grade 5, Measurement Techniques
Wood, Eileen; And Others – Educational Communication and Technology, 1987
Describes study of 80 preschool children in Canadian nursery schools and day care centers that addressed how children's learning of definitions is affected by two presentation variables: (1) questioning, and (2) the elaborateness of illustrations accompanying definitions. Results are analyzed, congruent versus incongruent recall is discussed, and…
Descriptors: Day Care Centers, Developed Nations, Foreign Countries, Illustrations
