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Richard P. Zipoli; Sujini Ramachandar – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2024
Assessments of oral reading are widely used for screening, progress monitoring, and comprehensive evaluations. Despite the utility and technical adequacy of these tools, there are subgroups of students for whom measures of oral reading may be inappropriate. The first section of this article focuses on how tests of oral reading may underestimate…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Children, Learning Disabilities, Developmental Disabilities
Visser, Linda; Cartschau, Friederike; von Goldammer, Ariane; Brandenburg, Janin; Timmerman, Marieke; Hasselhorn, Marcus; Mähler, Claudia – Applied Measurement in Education, 2023
The growing number of children in primary schools in Germany who have German as their second language (L2) has raised questions about the fairness of performance assessment. Fair tests are a prerequisite for distinguishing between L2 learning delay and a specific learning disability. We evaluated five commonly used reading and spelling tests for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Error of Measurement, Second Language Learning, German
O'Reilly, Tenaha; Sabatini, John – Grantee Submission, 2016
National and international assessments of reading, science and math indicate that students and adults in the United States lag behind citizens of other developed nations. While there are many reasons for this lag, recent advances in cognitive science and technology have uncovered promising ways to intervene and help struggling students. This…
Descriptors: Cognitive Science, Study Skills, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension
Colby S. Hall – Educational Psychology Review, 2016
Skill in generating inferences predicts reading comprehension for students in the elementary and intermediate grades even after taking into account word reading, vocabulary knowledge, and cognitive ability (Cain et al., "Journal of Educational Psychology, 96," 671-81, 2004; Kendeou et al., "Journal of Research in Reading," 31,…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension
Greathouse, Dan; Shaughnessy, Michael F. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
Whenever a major intelligence or achievement test is revised, there is always renewed interest in the underlying structure of the test as well as a renewed interest in the scoring, administration, and interpretation changes. In this interview, Amy Gabel discusses the most recent revision of the "Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fifth…
Descriptors: Children, Intelligence Tests, Test Use, Test Validity
McLeskey, James; Waldron, Nancy L. – Online Submission, 2011
Issues related to full-time inclusive programs have been particularly controversial for elementary students with learning disabilities. The nature of this controversy has changed substantially over the last decade, given the emphasis on high stakes accountability for all students in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and IDEA 2004. In spite of…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Inclusion, Federal Legislation, Learning Disabilities
Stothers, Margot; Klein, Perry D. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2010
It is not clear from research whether, or to what extent, reading comprehension is impaired in adults who have learning disabilities (LD). The influence of perceptual organization (PO) and phonological awareness (PA) on reading comprehension was investigated. PO and PA are cognitive functions that have been examined in previous research for their…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Stimuli, Learning Disabilities, Reading Tests
Cook, Linda; Eignor, Daniel; Steinberg, Jonathan; Sawaki, Yasuyo; Cline, Frederick – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a read-aloud test change administered with the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test (GMRT) on the underlying constructs measured by the Comprehension subtest. The study evaluated the factor structures for the Level 4 Comprehension subtest given to a sample of New Jersey fourth-grade students with…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Learning Disabilities, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis
Coleman, Chris; Lindstrom, Jennifer; Nelson, Jason; Lindstrom, William; Gregg, K. Noel – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
The comprehension section of the "Nelson-Denny Reading Test" (NDRT) is widely used to assess the reading comprehension skills of adolescents and adults in the United States. In this study, the authors explored the content validity of the NDRT Comprehension Test (Forms G and H) by asking university students (with and without at-risk…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Reading Tests, Content Validity
Peterson, Lisa S.; Martinez, Andrew; Turner, Terez L. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2010
This article presents a review of the "Process Assessment of the Learner-Second Edition" (PAL-II), an individual or group-administered instrument designed to assess the cognitive processes involved in academic tasks in kindergarten through sixth grade. The instrument allows the examiner to identify reasons for underachievement and…
Descriptors: Test Items, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Tests
Kato, Kentaro; Moen, Ross E.; Thurlow, Martha L. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2009
Large data sets from a state reading assessment for third and fifth graders were analyzed to examine differential item functioning (DIF), differential distractor functioning (DDF), and differential omission frequency (DOF) between students with particular categories of disabilities (speech/language impairments, learning disabilities, and emotional…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Language Impairments, Behavior Disorders, Affective Behavior

Hansen, Cheryl L. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1978
A method for quantifying story retells, called proposition analysis, was used to study the reading comprehension performances of 34 learning disabled and normal fifth and sixth graders. Journal availability: see EC 112 927. (DLS) 927
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Memory

Smith, Myra – Journal of Reading, 1983
Discusses the uses and limitations of a test designed to identify that reading disabled subgroup whose principal deficit is in the ability to deal with visual stimuli holistically. (AEA)
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Learning Disabilities, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Tests
Elbaum, Batya; Arguelles, Maria Elena; Campbell, Yvonne; Saleh, Maya Bardawil – Exceptionality, 2004
In this study, we investigated the impact of a student-reads-aloud accommodation on the performance of middle school and high school students with and without learning disabilities (LD) on a test of reading comprehension. Data for the analyses came from 311 students (n = 230 with LD) who took alternate forms of a reading test in a standard and an…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Learning Disabilities

Viera, Diana Rivera – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1986
The study examined the usefulness of the "Reading Miscue Inventory" to develop a remedial reading program with a Hispanic learning disabled 7-year-old male. The inventory aided in examination of the child's reading strategies leading to the selection of appropriate remedial reading activities. (DB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Hispanic Americans, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
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