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Direct linkIvar Bråten; Ymkje E. Haverkamp; Øistein Anmarkrud – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
The deep cloze test was developed by Jensen and Elbro (Read Writ Interdiscip J 35(5):1221-1237, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-021-10230-w) to assess reading comprehension at the level of global situational understanding. In two independent studies, we examined potential contributors to students' scores on the deep cloze reading…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Scores
Hubert, Blandine; Guimard, Philippe; Florin, Agnès; Tracy, Alexis – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: Several recent studies carried out in the United States and abroad (i.e., Asia and Europe) have demonstrated that the ability of young children to regulate their behavior (including inhibitory control, working memory, attentional control) significantly predicts their academic achievement. The current study examined the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Control, Academic Achievement, Nursery Schools
Konold, Timothy R.; Jamison, Kristen R.; Stanton-Chapman, Tina L.; Rimm-Kaufman, Sara E. – Applied Developmental Science, 2010
Children's social skills are an important class of learned behaviors that facilitate success in the classroom; the primary method used in the assessment of social skills involves having parents or teachers complete standardized checklists using judgments of frequency or intensity. Children's (N = 1,102) social skills were modeled as time-varying…
Descriptors: Mothers, Interpersonal Competence, Gender Differences, Academic Achievement
Houtveen, Thoni; van de Grift, Wim – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2012
In The Netherlands, the percentage of struggling readers in the 1st year of formal reading instruction is about 25%. This problem inspired us to develop the Reading Acceleration Programme. To evaluate the effectiveness of this programme, a quasi-experiment is carried out. The teachers in the experimental group have been trained to improve their…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Sentences, Foreign Countries, Followup Studies
Gresham, Frank M.; Vellutino, Frank R. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2010
A fundamental assumption in the identification of specific learning disabilities (SLD) has been that the presence of a severe discrepancy between ability and academic achievement is a valid marker for the presence of a SLD. This assumption is based on the notion that discrepant low achievers constitute a unique group of children who are different…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intelligence Quotient, Learning Disabilities, Low Achievement
Morris, Lori; Cobb, Tom – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2004
Given the cost of running second or foreign language teacher training programs with a high number of in-school placement hours, the selection of candidates who are likely perform well academically and complete their studies is an important consideration. The purpose of the present study was to examine the potential offered by vocabulary profiles…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Academic Achievement, Profiles, Language Skills
