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Hildebrand, Myrene; Hoover, H. D. – 1986
This study compared the reliability and validity of two different measures of reading ability, the Degrees of Reading Power (DRP) and the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) Reading test and the ITBS Vocabulary test. The data consisted of scores of 377 grade 5 and grade 6 students on these tests, along with their assigned reading levels in the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Correlation, Grade 5, Grade 6
Download full textBlanchard, Harry E. – 1983
A study was conducted to provide a replication of the gaze duration algorithm proposed by M. A. Just and P. A. Carpenter using a different kind of passage, to compare the three gaze duration algorithms that have been proposed by other researchers, and to measure processing time in reading. Fifty-one college students read a passage while their eye…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements
Kaufman, Maurice – 1982
A study examined the use of cloze procedure as a measure of learning from content instruction. Subjects were 35 physician assistant (PA) students in a cancer prevention course and 31 education students (ED) enrolled in reading instruction courses. Cloze passages were constructed from published selections on the reading process and occupationally…
Descriptors: Cancer, Cloze Procedure, College Students, Comparative Analysis
