Publication Date
In 2025 | 1 |
Since 2024 | 1 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 1 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 2 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 5 |
Descriptor
Source
Pacific Resources for… | 3 |
Modern Language Journal | 2 |
Academic Therapy | 1 |
Journal of Reading | 1 |
Reading & Writing Quarterly | 1 |
Regional Educational… | 1 |
TESOL Quarterly | 1 |
Author
Gilliland, Hap | 2 |
Padua, Jennifer F. M. | 2 |
Young, Petey | 2 |
Banas, Norma | 1 |
Brause, Rita S. | 1 |
Burgenbauch, Susan | 1 |
Burt, Lorna | 1 |
Caldwell, JoAnne | 1 |
Clegg, Ambrose A. | 1 |
Cohen, Paul, Comp. | 1 |
Cooney, Joe | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Education Level
Elementary Education | 2 |
Adult Education | 1 |
Early Childhood Education | 1 |
Grade 4 | 1 |
Intermediate Grades | 1 |
Kindergarten | 1 |
Primary Education | 1 |
Audience
Practitioners | 60 |
Teachers | 33 |
Researchers | 13 |
Students | 9 |
Administrators | 4 |
Counselors | 1 |
Location
Canada | 4 |
American Samoa | 3 |
Hawaii | 3 |
Northern Mariana Islands | 3 |
Ohio | 2 |
Australia | 1 |
Florida | 1 |
Michigan | 1 |
Taiwan | 1 |
Turkey | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
Georgia Criterion Referenced… | 5 |
Minnesota Comprehensive… | 1 |
New Jersey High School… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Nurhan Aktas – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2025
This 9-week mixed-methods study aimed to examine the effect of online reciprocal teaching on fourth grade primary school students' (N = 30) reading comprehension skills and reading motivation. As data collection tools, the "Reading Comprehension Test" was used to determine students' reading comprehension levels, while the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension
Foorman, Barbara R.; Smith, Kevin G.; Kosanovich, Marcia L. – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2017
The implementation of effective instructional materials, such as a core reading program, by a qualified teacher is an important part of improving students' reading achievement. But selecting those instructional materials can be time-consuming. Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Southeast created this rubric for evaluating reading/language arts…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Instructional Material Evaluation, Reading Instruction, Language Arts
Hanson, Susan; Padua, Jennifer F. M. – Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL), 2011
The Effective Instructional Strategies Series is a collection of six booklets based on the components used in Pacific Communities with High-performance In Literacy Development (Pacific CHILD), a principles-based professional development program consisting of research-based teaching and learning strategies proven to help improve students' reading…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension, Layout (Publications), Reading Instruction
Look, Sharon M. – Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL), 2011
The Effective Instructional Strategies Series is a collection of six booklets based on the components used in Pacific Communities with High-performance In Literacy Development (Pacific CHILD), a principles-based professional development program consisting of research-based teaching and learning strategies proven to help improve students' reading…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Instructional Improvement, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods
Padua, Jennifer F. M. – Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL), 2011
The Effective Instructional Strategies Series is a collection of six booklets based on the components used in Pacific Communities with High-performance In Literacy Development (Pacific CHILD), a principles-based professional development program consisting of research-based teaching and learning strategies proven to help improve students' reading…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Improvement, Instructional Innovation, Faculty Development

Raymond, Patricia Mary – Modern Language Journal, 1993
The question of whether French-as-a-second-language reading can be facilitated by teaching some organizational patterns of discourse was investigated. It was concluded that strategic training is highly complex and difficult and that cumulative evidence is required to assess its usefulness in improving reading recall. (Contains 41 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Expository Writing, French, Language Tests, Reading Comprehension
Brause, Rita S. – 1979
Designed to assess comprehension of written ambiguous and polysemous structures, this instrument is a series of written statements that include varying degrees and types of ambiguity. In the first part of the test students are asked to identify (from a choice of three) semantically acceptable paraphrases for an initial sentence. Then students must…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Processing, Measures (Individuals)
Stice, Carole Kirchner – 1978
Designed to assess a reader's comprehension of items differing in contrastive vocal stress, this test consists of 64 items divided evenly between eight sentence types: declarative active, declarative passive, interrogative, and imperative, with each in a positive and negative form. The element of contrastive stress is placed on nouns functioning…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Intonation, Language Usage, Measures (Individuals)

Irwin, Judith Westphal; Davis, Carol A. – Journal of Reading, 1980
Provides a checklist that considers "learnability" factors as well as "understandability" factors to use as an alternative to readability formulas. (MKM)
Descriptors: Check Lists, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes, Readability
Fagan, William T. – 1981
Designed to interpret comprehension recalls in terms of textual information and cognitive processes used, this instrument outlines four stages for interpretive recalls, based on the premise that recall of a text results from receptive and productive processes. Stage 1 specifies which information is pertinent for analysis; stage 2 discusses the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Measures (Individuals), Postsecondary Education
Banas, Norma; Wills, I. H. – Academic Therapy, 1979
The article, the sixth in a series discussing specific tests of the Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude (DTLA), deals with verbal opposites (word meanings in isolation) and verbal absurdities (word meanings in context). (DLS)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Learning Disabilities
Oliver, Jo Ellen – 1978
Designed to measure children's abilities to synthesize concepts from several sources, this measure is based on the assumptions that children move from the concrete to the abstract, from specific to generic, and that the ability to synthesize and form new concepts is an important prerequisite to reading comprehension. Each form of the test is…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests
Smith, Edwin H.; Palmer, Barbara C. – 1979
Designed to assess the ability to interpret the major types of figurative language or tropes such as similes, metaphors, proverbs, and personification, the two forms of this instrument each contain 50 items in a two-part, multiple-choice format. Part I tests the meaning of figures of speech in isolation; part II tests the meaning in the context of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Figurative Language, Higher Education, Measures (Individuals)
Dupuis, Mary M.; Snyder, Sandra L. – 1980
Designed to assess the reading and writing skills of preservice and inservice teachers, this criterion referenced test assesses four skills areas following the reading of a selected professional article. The skill areas assessed are the ability to (1) understand the professional vocabulary used in the selection, (2) answer literal level…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Measures (Individuals), Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills

Kirschner, Michal; And Others – TESOL Quarterly, 1993
Preliminary criteria are presented to consider in the writing of English for academic purposes (EAP) reading comprehension tests. The criteria pertain to the test as a whole as well as to the form of individual questions. A checklist is appended. (42 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Check Lists, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes, Evaluation Criteria