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Pollock, Donna Hart – 1974
The purposes of this study were to determine if cloze tests would yield reading instruction levels identical to those obtained with an Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) and if there would be discrepancies in the reading levels yielded by the two instruments for subjects from a lower socioeconomic level. The investigator, with the assistance of one…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 6, Informal Reading Inventories
Download full textWaltz, Pennie Alice – 1977
Five reflective and five impulsive fourth-grade boys were identified in a group of 56 fourth graders given the Matching Familiar Figures Test. The Reading Miscue Inventory was used to analyze the oral reading miscues of these pupils while reading a story of fifth-grade difficulty. Analysis of results indicated a trend toward significant…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo, Elementary Education, Grade 4
McRae, L. G. – 1974
The purpose of this study was to obtain a measure of the reliability of the informal reading inventory (IRI) when administered to selected sixth grade students. Houghton Mifflin's Pupil Placement Tests were administered to 36 sixth grade girls. The raw scores of the students on the pupil Placement Tests were divided into two equivalent halves, and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Females, Grade 6, Informal Reading Inventories
Norton, Donna Elithe – 1976
Forty first-grade and third-grade students participated in an investigation of differences between oral reading strategies of students taught with a phonics emphasis and those of students taught with an analytic-eclectic program. Results from analysis of a reading miscue inventory used with each student indicated that miscue patterns are directly…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Doctoral Dissertations, Informal Reading Inventories, Miscue Analysis
Brazee, Phyllis Ellen – 1976
Quantitative and qualitative aspects of the reading of narrative and expository materials were studied in a sample of 47 eighth-grade students. Informal Reading Inventories were developed from narrative and expository materials in use in the students' school, as were longer narrative and expository passages for miscue analysis. Passages were…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Doctoral Dissertations, Expository Writing, Grade 8
The Effect of High and Low Interest Content on Instructional Levels in Informal Reading Inventories.
Walker, Martha Susan Motley – 1976
The effects of interest level on comprehension and word-recognition instructional levels were investigated in samples of fifth- and sixth-grade pupils. The effects of sex, ability, interest, and type of skill on performance on informal reading inventories were tested using a four-factor analysis of variance; each grade level was examined…
Descriptors: Ability, Doctoral Dissertations, Informal Reading Inventories, Intermediate Grades
