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Peer reviewedCrawford, Lindy; Tindal, Gerald; Stieber, Steve – Educational Assessment, 2001
Used a curriculum-based measurement (CBM) of reading aloud from narrative passages to predict performance on statewide achievement tests in reading and mathematics. Results for 51 students (third graders in the second year of the study) provide initial support for the use of timed oral readings to predict students' performance on statewide…
Descriptors: Achievement, Curriculum, Elementary School Students, Oral Reading
Peer reviewedHollenbeck, Keith; Tindal, Gerald; Almond, Patricia – Educational Assessment, 1999
Studied the amount of measurement error in a state's performance-based writing task as it relates to high-stakes decision reproducibility. Using 175 eighth-grade writing samples, the study finds moderate correlations between the two raters' scores, with significant differences for the rates for the handwritten, but not the typed, essays.(SLD)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Error of Measurement, Essay Tests, Grade 8
