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Download full textRogers, Christopher M.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Lazarus, Sheryl S.; Liu, Kristin K. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2019
The purpose of this report is to present a synthesis of the research on test accommodations published in 2015 and 2016. We summarize the research to review current research trends and enhance understanding of the implications of accommodations use in the development of future policy directions, to highlight implementation of current and new…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Students with Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education
Rogers, Christopher M.; Lazarus, Sheryl S.; Thurlow, Martha L. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2016
This report provides an update on the state of the research on testing accommodations as well as to identify promising future areas of research. Previous reports by NCEO have covered research published since 1999. We summarize the research to review current research trends and enhance understanding of the implications of accommodations use in the…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Students with Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Research
Rogers, Christopher M.; Lazarus, Sheryl S.; Thurlow, Martha L. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2014
A report providing an update on the state of the research on testing accommodations as well as to identify promising future areas of research. Previous reports by NCEO have covered research published since 1999. NCEO summarizes the research to review current research trends and enhance understanding of the implications of accommodations use in the…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Students with Disabilities, Educational Research, Educational Trends
Peer reviewedReadence, John E.; Moore, David W. – Journal of Reading, 1983
Examines the development of standardized reading comprehension tests in the critical states from the early 1900s through current testing trends. (AEA)
Descriptors: Educational History, Literature Reviews, Questioning Techniques, Reading Tests
Direct linkFoorman, Barbara R.; York, Mary; Santi, Kristi L.; Francis, David – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2008
This study utilized early reading assessment data from a randomized trial of 210 urban and rural schools in Texas to examine contextual effects on risk prediction in first and second grade. The primary objective was to examine the roles of (a) individual differences, (b) the grade 1 classroom, and (c) the pairing of first and second grade teachers…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Reading Difficulties, Rural Schools, Mentors
Brittain, Mary M.; Brittain, Clay V. – 1981
A behavioral domain is well-defined when it is clear to both test developers and test users which categories of performance should or should not be considered for potential test items. Only those tests that are keyed to well-defined domains meet the definition of criterion-referenced tests. The greatest proliferation of criterion-referenced tests…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests, Test Construction
Peer reviewedBrueggemann, Louis V. – Reading Horizons, 1987
Reviews research dealing with test wiseness and concludes that teachers and others who administer tests and those who review results should consider the degree to which test wiseness characteristics might have been operative had a planned effort been undertaken to provide special instruction. (FL)
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Reading Tests, Standardized Tests
Peer reviewedKibby, Michael W. – Journal of Reading, 1981
Describes the test, The Degrees of Reading Power, developed by the New York State Education Department for use as a formalized "informal reading inventory." (MKM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Minimum Competency Testing, Readability
Bolden, Bernadine J.; Stoddard, Ann – 1980
This study examined the effect of two ways of question phrasing as related to three styles of expository writing on the test performance of elementary school children. Multiple-choice questions were developed for sets of passages which were written using three different syntactic structures; and which had different levels of difficulty. The…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Kernel Sentences, Multiple Choice Tests
