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Peer reviewedBean, Rita M.; Lane, Suzanne – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1990
The study of curriculum-based measurement (CBM), involving 57 adults in a basic literacy program, found that narrative rather than expository passages exhibited higher reliability. Level of difficulty did not affect reliability. Validity data showed inconsistency between CBM and standardized test scores. The measures were sensitive to student…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adults, Evaluation Methods
Download full textDupuis, Mary M.; Askov, Eunice N. – 1977
In this appendix to the Content Area Reading Project report, five instruments administered to teacher participants are examined: two attitude surveys, a skill test, a questionnaire to obtain demographic information, and the Purdue Teacher Opinionaire, which is a measure of teacher morale. This work first presents the attitude surveys, skill test,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Content Area Reading, Demonstration Programs, Inservice Teacher Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 20 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: predictors of primary grade reading achievement; factor analysis of the WISC-R to distinguish disabled readers at three grade levels; a process model for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adults, Communication (Thought Transfer)
