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Fleischner, Jeannette, Ed. – Forum, 1980
Eight articles report on findings of the five Research Institutes in Learning Disabilities. T. Bryan reports on "The Chicago Institute for Learning Disabilities" with findings concerning children's conversational skills, how children account for success and failure, children's ingratiation tactics, children who forget quickly, and children's…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Kaake, Ray; And Others – Review and Evaluation Bulletins, 1982
An addition to the teacher's repertoire of silent reading tests is the formal cloze procedure. This test requires the reader to replace exactly individual words deleted from a reading passage. It serves to identify those students who are not reading at an expected level, but it does not suggest why this is so. However, with modifications to both…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cloze Procedure, Evaluation Methods, Identification
Mikulecky, Larry, Ed.; Robbins, Ed., Ed. – Indiana Reading Quarterly, 1979
The eight articles in this publication focus on different approaches to reading instruction. Specific topics discussed include reading and the gifted child, teaching reading in a youth shelter, children's attitudes toward reading, teaching reading at the secondary level, secondary reading programs in Indiana, teaching test-taking strategies, the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Improvement
Pinette, Clayton, Ed.; Smith, Kent, Ed. – Forum for Reading, 1979
Issued twice yearly, this journal focuses on materials of interest to teachers of reading at the college level. The five articles in this issue deal with the following topics: basic skills instruction, judging the success of college reading programs, the effect of copying or paraphrasing structurally-cued topic sentences on passage comprehension,…
Descriptors: College Programs, College Students, Higher Education, Program Evaluation
Peer reviewedTonnessen, Finn Egil, Ed. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1993
The seven articles of this special issue comment on the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Assessment Reading Literacy Study conducted from 1989 to 1991 in 31 countries. Project design and test instruments are reviewed, and results from the Nordic countries are presented and explored. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, International Education
Download full textKimball, George H. – Journal of Research and Evaluation of the Oklahoma City Public Schools, 1982
A study was conducted to determine (1) the extent to which the degree of use of PRI/RS (the Prescriptive Reading Inventory Reading Systems, a criterion referenced management system developed by CTB/McGraw Hill) affected comparable groups of students on standardized achievement measures; (2) whether the degree of use differentially influenced…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Managed Instruction, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Education
Pinette, Clayton, Ed.; Smith, Kent, Ed. – Forum for Reading: The Journal for College Reading Improvement, 1979
Five essays for reading instructors at two-year colleges are provided in this issue of "Forum for Reading." First, Kent Smith notes the increased recruitment of underprepared students and argues that colleges are responsible for assuring that admissions personnel, administrators, and faculty know the types of students they can and cannot…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, High Risk Students, Open Enrollment, Program Effectiveness
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 35 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) cloze procedure; (2) the monitoring and facilitation of reading growth; (3) the effect of immediate item feedback on the reliability and validity of verbal…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills, Cloze Procedure, Communication Skills
