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Direct linkEmily Tucker – ProQuest LLC, 2021
To better understand Tennessee's new standardized science assessments, this quantitative study utilized a nonexperimental, descriptive-comparative design to compare the readability of the long-used science TCAP assessment with the newly created science TNReady assessment in grades three, four, and five. As new standards in the state boast higher…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Standardized Tests, Achievement Tests, Readability
Peer reviewedEnnis, Robin Parks – Education and Treatment of Children, 2016
Students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) often struggle to be effective writers. Self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) is one approach to writing instruction that has demonstrated success for students with EBD. However, there is little research exploring its utility to teach writing to students with EBD in social studies. The…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Writing Skills, High School Students
Schirmer, Barbara R.; Schaffer, Laura; Therrien, William J.; Schirmer, Todd N. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2011
The researchers investigated the effect of the Reread-Adapt and Answer-Comprehend intervention (Therrien, Gormley, & Kubina, 2006) on the reading fluency and achievement of d/Deaf and hard of hearing elementary-level students. Children in the third, fifth, and sixth grades at a state school for d/Deaf and hard of hearing students received a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Deafness, Partial Hearing, Reading Achievement
Curcic, Svjetlana; Johnstone, Robin S. – Computers in the Schools, 2016
This study examined the effects of an intervention in writing with digital interactive books. To improve the writing skills of seventh- and eighth-grade students with a learning disability in reading, we conducted a quasi-experimental study in which the students read interactive digital books (i-books), took notes, wrote summaries, and acted as…
Descriptors: Intervention, Writing Skills, Learning Disabilities, Cartoons
Forsyth, Robert – 1976
The readability level of passages from three subtests of the Iowa Tests of Educational Development (ITED), Forms X-6 and Y-6, were compared with the readability level of passages selected from the Des Moines Resister, Reader's Digest, Time, Newsweek, Saturday Review, and 18 high school textbooks from the fields of social studies, science, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Content Area Reading, Literature, Natural Sciences
