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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 titles include studies of an informal reading inventory; an item-type to test phonic and context skills; reliability of residual gain scores based on means for a standardized reading achievement measure; alternatives to…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education
Eldredge, J. Lloyd; Butterfield, Dennie – 1984
Because of concern about the harmful effects of placing children in low reading groups, this study tested the following "sacred cows" in reading: (1) the use of informal reading inventories for grouping children in reading instruction, (2) the homogeneous grouping practices currently utilized in most classrooms in the United States, (3)…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Childrens Literature, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction