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Petscher, Yaacov; Mitchell, Alison M.; Foorman, Barbara R. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
A growing body of literature suggests that response latency, the amount of time it takes an individual to respond to an item, may be an important factor to consider when using assessment data to estimate the ability of an individual. Considering that tests of passage and list fluency are being adapted to a computer administration format, it is…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Vocabulary, Item Response Theory, Reliability
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Foorman, Barbara R.; Petscher, Yaacov; Bishop, M. Denise – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
We know that knowledge of word structure--morphology--relates to reading, but there is limited research on its unique contribution to reading comprehension, especially with students in middle and high schools and with the nesting of students within classrooms taken into account. In this study with 4780 students in grades 3 to 10, we examined how…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Morphology (Languages), Spelling
Foorman, Barbara R.; Petscher, Yaacov; Schatschneider, Chris – Florida Center for Reading Research, 2015
The FAIR-FS consists of computer-adaptive reading comprehension and oral language screening tasks that provide measures to track growth over time, as well as a Probability of Literacy Success (PLS) linked to grade-level performance (i.e., the 40th percentile) on the reading comprehension subtest of the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT-10) in the…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Screening Tests, Reading Comprehension, Oral Language