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Peer reviewedRasinski, Timothy V. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1990
Measures of reading fluency were investigated as predictors of reading comprehension for 77 third graders and 65 fifth graders. Several of the eight measures investigated were found to be good predictors of comprehension with the potential for use by teachers. Results show that reading fluency is a multidimensional reading construct. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Peer reviewedKampwirth, Thomas J.; MacKenzie, Karen – Educational Research Quarterly, 1989
The relationship between modality styles and reading achievement was studied for 51 first graders given 2 subtests of the Swassing-Barbe Modality Index, 2 subtests of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, and 2 tests of nonsense words. There was no significant interaction between modality preference and reading achievement. (SLD)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Style, Comparative Testing, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedStone, Brian J.; Gridley, Betty E. – School Psychology Review, 1991
The relationship between a kindergarten screening battery (KSB) and scores on the Stanford Achievement Test was studied as a function of race for 519 white and 183 Native American students in kindergarten through grade 4. Prediction of the child's achievement test scores is more accurate when race is considered. (SLD)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, American Indians, Comparative Testing, Elementary Education
Download full textGreen, Kathy E.; Kluever, Raymond C. – 1991
Item components that might contribute to the difficulty of items on the Raven Colored Progressive Matrices (CPM) and the Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) were studied. Subjects providing responses to CPM items were 269 children aged 2 years 9 months to 11 years 8 months, most of whom were referred for testing as potentially gifted. A second…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Children, Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level
Smith, Douglas K.; And Others – 1992
The stability of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) was studied by examining its performance over a 5-year interval with 16 non-handicapped children aged 45 to 61 months at the beginning of the study. Global scale stability coefficients (corrected for restriction in range) for Time 1 testing (age 4 years) and Time 4 testing (age 9…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Analysis of Variance, Child Development
Gonzalez-Tamayo, Eulogio – 1991
Test scores on the Test of Basic Concepts, a school readiness test, were compared with actual performance in school for 186 low-scoring and 133 high-scoring groups of first graders from Spain at the beginning of the school year to explore the issues of competence testing and prediction of performance. The measure of school performance was derived…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Testing, Culture Fair Tests, Elementary School Students
