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A Study of Fourth Grade Students' Reading Comprehension Measures in Short and Long Passages of an Informal Reading Inventory.
Bowden, Nancy Butler; Lane, Wilson H. – 1979
The reliability of short versus long passages in informal reading inventories was compared. After 132 fourth grade students were tested with the Standard Reading Inventory, Form B, they read longer passages in either the oral or silent modes. Students with higher silent reading scores read long passages orally, while students with higher oral…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 4, Informal Reading Inventories, Reading Achievement
Reliability and Validity of Curriculum-Based Informal Reading Inventories.
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Fuchs, Lynn; And Others – 1981
A study was conducted to explore the reliability and validity of three prominent procedures used in informal reading inventories (IRIs): (1) choosing a 95% word recognition accuracy standard for determining student instructional level, (2) arbitrarily selecting a passage to represent the difficulty level of a basal reader, and (3) employing…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction