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Aksoy, Bülent; Namal, Remzi – International Education Studies, 2020
The aim of this study is to determine the scope validity of the graph drawing interpretation skill checklist that can be used in social studies teaching. The literature review was made while the draft skill checklist was prepared at first. There have generally been some graph drawing and interpretation skill checklist studies at secondary and…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Test Validity, Graphs, Interpretive Skills
Hassenfeld, Ziva R. – Journal of Jewish Education, 2017
Empirical research in Jewish education has found almost exclusive use of "transmission" pedagogy among Jewish studies teachers. This study hoped to fill out the empirical landscape by studying Jewish studies teachers who prioritize student-driven interpretation. It followed six Jewish studies teachers in four different Jewish elementary…
Descriptors: Judaism, Biblical Literature, Christianity, Jews
Oakhill, Jane; Cain, Kate; Nesi, Barbara – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2016
This article reports a study in which good and poor comprehenders (in 2 age groups: 8- and 10-year-olds) read short passages containing phrases that could be interpreted as idiomatic or not, depending on the context. Familiarity was manipulated by including real (English) idioms and novel (translations of Italian) idioms. Reading times for the…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Reading Comprehension, Children, Age Differences
National Assessment Governing Board, 2017
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in Reading regularly collects achievement information on representative samples of students in grades 4, 8, and 12. Through The Nation's Report Card, the NAEP Reading Assessment reports how well students perform in reading various texts and responding to those texts by answering…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Reading Skills, Reading Tests, Reading Achievement
Patel, Pooja; Laud, Leslie E. – Middle School Journal, 2015
This article provides a description of three seventh grade English teachers' attempt to augment creativity, reading, and deep understanding, and the standards they used to come up with five essential questions surrounding an eight-week unit on poetry. Each of these questions helps to address the school standards and the Common Core State Standards…
Descriptors: Poetry, Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students, Grade 7
Han, Chao – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2016
As a property of test scores, reliability/dependability constitutes an important psychometric consideration, and it underpins the validity of measurement results. A review of interpreter certification performance tests (ICPTs) reveals that (a) although reliability/dependability checking has been recognized as an important concern, its theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scores, English, Chinese
Tengberg, Michael; Olin-Scheller, Christina – Education Inquiry, 2013
This article investigates the potential for developing advanced reading and interpretative skills in Swedish secondary school. Over six weeks, four separate study groups in seventh grade participated in an intervention study. The purpose was to gather more knowledge about how different teaching strategies affect students' development of advanced…
Descriptors: Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Interpretive Skills, Comparative Analysis
Abdelrasoul, Mohamed Mahmoud Ibrahim – Online Submission, 2014
The present study aimed at developing the necessary critical reading skills and social skills of the Egyptian EFL second year preparatory school students, through a proposed program based on using reading circles strategy. The study participants were 44 students from Sohag Experimental Preparatory School in Sohag Governorate. Instruments of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Reading Skills, English (Second Language)

Gil, Victor M. S. – International Journal of Science Education, 1988
Devised is a test involving chemical examples to establish to what extent college chemistry students recognized and assessed the explanatory content of statements presented in the form of justifications. Several results are discussed. Several test items are included. (Author/YP)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Comprehension, Inferences

Bahns, Jens; Eldaw, Moira – System, 1993
German advanced English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) students' productive knowledge of English collocations consisting of a verb and a noun were investigated in a translation task and a close task. Results suggest that EFL students should concentrate on collocations that cannot readily be paraphrased. The tasks are appended. (32 references)…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Idioms
Sunal, Dennis W. – 1976
Presented is a Science Process Measure for teachers of science. The instrument consists of 18 items, a response sheet, and an answer key. No data regarding the instrument are provided. (CS)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation, Interpretive Skills, Measures (Individuals)
Sunal, Dennis W. – 1976
Presented is a Science Process Measure for teachers of science. The instrument consists of 18 items, a response sheet, and an answer key. No data regarding the instrument are provided. (CS)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation, Interpretive Skills, Measures (Individuals)
Shaffer, Warren F.; Penwarden, Jeffry R. – 1981
Twenty-two junior, senior, and graduate students from an introductory counseling class for nonmajors were introduced to the verbal psychotherapies, and randomly divided into treatment and control groups. The groups were treated identically and received the usual instructional program except for the treatment group receiving 30 minutes of…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Control Groups, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Training
Forsyth, G. Alfred; And Others – 1995
A recent conference on statistics education recommended that more emphasis be placed on the interpretation of research (IOR). Ways for developing and assessing IOR and providing a systematic framework for creating and selecting instructional materials for the independent assessment of specific IOR concepts are the focus of this paper. The…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research, Evaluative Thinking
Shaw, Terry – 1979
The test is designed to assess upper elementary students' competency in process skills used in making decisions and solving problems in the social studies. The skills tested are those identified by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and include observing, classifying, measuring, using numbers, using space and time…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Decision Making Skills, Elementary Education, Interpretive Skills
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