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Download full textWestEd, San Francisco, CA. – 2002
The Secondary School Literacy Project (SSLiP) is a partnership between the Bay Area Coalition of Essential Schools (BayCES) and the Strategic Literacy Initiative at WestEd (SLI). SSLiP is a professional development and capacity building program for teams of teachers in the BayCES network of schools. During the 1999-2000 school year, seven school…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Literacy, Partnerships in Education, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedPaulson, Eric J.; Henry, Jeanne – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2002
Investigates the reading process as it pertains to readers taking the Degrees of Reading Power (DRP) assessment. Examines this process through analyses of readers' eye movements. Concludes that the DRP is not an accurate measure, or even a modest approximation of, the reading comprehension process. (SG)
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Eye Movements, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
Greenleaf, Cynthia L.; Mueller, Faye L. – 2003
Academic Literacy was a year-long course focused on reading strategy development for all ninth graders at Thurgood Marshall Academic High School in the San Francisco Unified School District. Course goals were to help students become engaged, fluent, and competent readers of the variety of texts necessary for them to master to be successful in high…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Course Evaluation, Experimental Programs, Grade 9
Price, Janet; Schwabacher, Sara – 1993
A pilot study systematically collected classroom assessment data in reading and compared that data to the students' test scores on the Degrees of Reading Power (DRP). A total of 61 teachers in 18 New York City public elementary schools gathered the data for 268 students in grades 2 through 6. Teachers identified the books their children could…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Snyder, Jon; And Others – 1993
A pilot study explored the nature of the relationship between test and classroom evidence and considered how these different sources of evidence were used in assessing and promoting student growth and development in reading. Test estimates of third-grade children in two public elementary programs in New York City were compared with estimates of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools, Grade 3
