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The Predictive Nature of the Phelps Kindergarten Readiness Scale Perceptual Score and Reading Achievement: A Mixed-Methods Study
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Bond, Sarah – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to identify and describe what correlations, if any, exist between the composite Phelps Kindergarten Readiness Scale (PKRS) score, the visual-perceptual subtest of the PKRS, and reading achievement by the end of grade one. The quantitative data used in this study were the PKRS scores from 421 students…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Mixed Methods Research, Kindergarten, Reading Teachers
Addressing False Positives in Early Reading Assessment Using Intervention Response Data
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McAlenney, Athena Lentini; Coyne, Michael D. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2015
The current study examined a solution to high false positive reading risk classification rates in early kindergarten by investigating a method of identifying students with possible false positive risk classifications and returning them to general classroom instruction. Researchers assessed kindergarten students (N = 105) identified as at risk who…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Risk Assessment, Classification
Relationship between Selected Kindergarten Predictors and First and Fourth Grade Achievement Test Scores.
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Caskey, William E. Jr.; Larson, Gerald L. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1983
Kindergarten predictors, Otis-Lennon IQ, group and individual Bender scores, and teachers' ratings were correlated with first-grade Stanford Achievement Test scores from 152 children from three schools in the same school district and fourth-grade Ohio Survey Test scores from 102 of the same children. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Correlation, Elementary Education