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Wangsgard, Nichole – Reading Improvement, 2019
Current reading assessments put emphasis in the five components of reading competency, neglecting the self-efficacy needs of students. When students struggle with one of or all five components of reading competency, they could have negative feelings about themselves as a reader. This article offers teachers and effective user friendly assessment…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Self Concept, Reading Skills, Reading Difficulties
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Stone, Elizabeth; Cook, Linda; Laitusis, Cara – ETS Research Report Series, 2013
This study presents secondary analyses on a 2-stage test of reading comprehension for students with reading-based learning disabilities (RLD). The present paper describes student perceptions of the test and its features as well as analyses focused on the routing test and associated cut score. The routing test contained typical state assessment…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Learning Disabilities, Student Attitudes
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Cook, John – Reading, 1990
Discusses the development of a reading progress chart to display students' chronological age versus reading age over a period of time. Investigates the validity of this methods of recording individual students' progress. Finds evidence for the usefulness of the chart as a pictorial record of students' progress. (RS)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Reading Achievement, Reading Diagnosis
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Lefly, Dianne L.; Pennington, Bruce F. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2000
The reliability and validity of a revised version of the Reading History Questionnaire was examined using 84 adults from an ongoing study of familial dyslexia and the parents of 107 children from a longitudinal study of reading development. The results indicated that the questionnaire (appended to the article) is both reliable and valid. (Contains…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Diagnostic Tests, Dyslexia
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Justice, Laura M.; Invernizzi, Marcia A.; Meier, Joanne D. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2002
This article provides a rationale for incorporating early literacy screening into speech language services for young children with communication impairments. Recommendations concern identifying which children and what areas of literacy should be targeted for screening. Guidelines for interpreting findings and for using screening to guide early…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Communication Disorders, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy
Crawford, Elizabeth; Torgesen, Joseph – Florida Center for Reading Research, 2007
One of the most critical needs in Florida's "Reading First" schools is to improve the effectiveness of interventions for struggling readers. For example, during the 2005-2006 school year, only 17% of first grade students who began the year at some level of risk for reading difficulties finished the year with grade level skills on the…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Emergent Literacy, Grade 3, Grade 2