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Johnston, Peter H. – Elementary School Journal, 2011
Evidence suggests that it is possible to substantially reduce the number of children classified as learning disabled in literacy. The 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act opens opportunities to do so through Response to Intervention (RTI). This article argues that institutional histories, structures, and…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Disabilities, Literacy, Response to Intervention
Soares, Magda Becker – 1992
Three conceptual issues form the basis for coping with technical problems of gathering data on literacy: (1) the definition of literacy; (2) choice of criteria that can be used in properly assessing and measuring literacy; and (3) conflict between the importance and necessity of literacy assessment and the difficulty of fulfilling the prerequisite…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Data Collection, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods