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Sabatini, John; Bruce, Kelly; Steinberg, Jonathan; Weeks, Jonathan – ETS Research Report Series, 2015
This technical report describes the conceptual foundation and measurement properties of the Reading Inventory and Scholastic Evaluation (RISE). The RISE is a 6-subtest, Web-administered reading skills components battery. The theoretical and empirical foundations of each subtest in the battery are reviewed, as well as item designs. The results…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Reading Skills, Test Construction, Research Reports
Shackford, Helen Greene – 1976
In order to assess the relationship between knowledge of language structure and reading comprehension, the English Language Structure Test was constructed. In this test, students had to reconstruct scrambled sentences of controlled complexity. The English Language Structure Test and the Stanford Reading Test were administered to 202 junior high…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Language Skills
Perkins, Kyle; German, Patricia – 1985
A study of the information gained by students in the process of taking a cloze test in English as a second language was conducted with 34 full-time undergraduate foreign students at a state university. The subjects came from a variety of native language backgrounds. A 35-item cloze test was developed in which every eighth word was deleted,…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Context Clues, English (Second Language)
Spearritt, D.; And Others – 1977
A battery of reading tests designed to identify the component skills involved in reading comprehension was administered to 624 sixth grade students in the metropolitan Sydney (Australia) schools. Factor analysis of the data showed that knowledge of word meanings, sentence comprehension, and semantic context are experimentally identifiable…
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Richek, Margaret Ann – 1975
Test questions were phrased according to different sentence structures in a study of the complexity level of items for 220 third-grade children. Both the sensitivity of wh-questions (who, what, where, etc.) as a dependent variable and differences between wh-questions eliciting subject and predicate nouns were investigated. Effects of paraphrase…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Difficulty Level, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
New Jersey Basic Skills Council, Trenton. – 1983
The New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test (NJCBSPT) is designed to measure basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills of students entering New Jersey colleges. The test consists of five sections: Essay, Reading Comprehension, Sentence Sense, Mathematical Computation, and Elementary Algebra. The test is intended to answer the question…
Descriptors: Algebra, Basic Skills, College Entrance Examinations, Computation
Evans, P.; And Others – 1983
Information on the Ontario Test of English Achievement is presented. Attention is directed to the background and objectives of the test, test development, subtest characteristics and properties, validity, and recommendations concerning test use. The objective of the test was to determine the language competence of incoming students to assist…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English, Expository Writing, Foreign Countries