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Toyama, Yukie – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
In this study, I investigated the simultaneous effects of the reader, the text, and the task factors, and their interactions, on reading comprehension, using explanatory item response models. Analyses of a large data set from a commercially available online assessment system with a wide range of readers (n = 10,547) and passages (n = 48) uncovered…
Descriptors: Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension, Item Response Theory, Sentence Structure
Karen R. Harris; Young-Suk Kim; Soobin Yim; April Camping; Steve Graham – Grantee Submission, 2023
This randomized controlled trial with first- and second-grade students is the first experimental study addressing long-running disagreements about whether primary grade students should develop transcription and oral language abilities before learning to compose. It is also the first study at these grade levels to teach close reading (using science…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Primary Education, Handwriting, Writing Skills
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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
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McNamara, Danielle S.; Crossley, Scott A.; McCarthy, Philip M. – Written Communication, 2010
In this study, a corpus of expert-graded essays, based on a standardized scoring rubric, is computationally evaluated so as to distinguish the differences between those essays that were rated as high and those rated as low. The automated tool, Coh-Metrix, is used to examine the degree to which high- and low-proficiency essays can be predicted by…
Descriptors: Essays, Undergraduate Students, Educational Quality, Computational Linguistics
Boyer, Jean-Yves – 1990
A study investigated whether or not the global structure of a text influences its readability and how that influence might be related to the already recognized influences of vocabulary and sentence length. The subjects, 250 fourth-grade students in Quebec, each read four texts representing four different structures, four subjects, and two levels…
Descriptors: Classification, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 4
Eisenhardt, Catheryn T. – 1974
Just as a reader must bring an experiential conceptual background to the printed page, so must he bring an ability to recognize the graphic cues that signal meaning. The graphic cues or structural meaning works as a system the description of which can be outlined in three parts as the vocabulary, the structure, and the sound. What has been…
Descriptors: Intonation, Linguistics, Punctuation, Reading
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Davies, Peter – Reading, 1977
Suggests that, for the assessment of performance in low and intermediate levels of reading, sentence-completion tasks can play an informative role and that, for students who have acquired these skills, the tests are valuable for ascertaining vocabulary acquisition or comprehension of syntactic structures. (JM)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
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Cain, Kate; Oakhill, Jane; Bryant, Peter – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2004
The authors report data from a longitudinal study that addresses the relations between working memory capacity and reading comprehension skills in children aged 8, 9, and 11 years. At each time point, the authors assessed children's reading ability, vocabulary and verbal skills, performance on 2 working memory assessments (sentence-span and digit…
Descriptors: Memory, Inferences, Story Grammar, Reading Ability
MacGinitie, Walter H.; Tretiak, Richard – 1969
An attempt to predict reading difficulty with various grammatical measures showed that the relatively crude measure of sentence length is still the most indicative. Yngve's phrase structure measurement and Allen's "sector analysis" were used on 80 selected passages and were compared to the Lorge Readability Formula in terms of tests based on the…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Linguistics, Phrase Structure
Pavlak, Stephen A. – 1973
The purpose of this study were to survey scientific research, professional literature, and doctoral dissertations on reading comprehension done from 1948 to 1972, to identify the reading factors believed to affect reading comprehension, to analyze the identified reading factors by studying the major available research and related literature, to…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Literature Reviews, Questioning Techniques, Reading Ability
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Hansell, T. Stevenson – Journal of Reading, 1976
Raises doubts about the validity of readability formulas. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Measurement Instruments, Readability, Readability Formulas
Geyer, James R. – Journal of the Reading Specialist, 1970
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Evaluation, Measurement Instruments, Predictive Validity
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Mukattash, Lewis – English Language Teaching Journal, 1981
Describes relationship between curriculum and learner evaluation in Jordan of English language teaching. Claims Oxford Secondary English Course for Jordan tests are defective, speaking is ignored in tests, reading comprehension is neglected and tests are exclusively discrete-point tests. Suggests use of cloze tests and translation. (BK)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Language Tests, Reading Comprehension
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Bell, James H.; Johnson, Reta E. – TESL Canada Journal, 1992
The vocabulary, sentence structure, and organization of a pharmacy education handout were lowered, main ideas were highlighted, and special introductions were written. There was no statistically significant difference in reading comprehension scores between subjects receiving the modified pamphlet and subjects receiving the standard version. (21…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Van Rooy, Lois – 1973
The purposes of this paper are (1) to assist Career Development for Children Project (CDCP) writers in developing more readable curriculum materials and (2) to better identify research and development priorities. The first part surveys two contrasting methods that have been found useful in predicting the readability of written texts. The second…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Curriculum Development, Readability, Reading
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