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Meaghan McKenna; Hope Gerde; Nicolette Grasley-Boy – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
This article describes the development and administration of the "Kindergarten-Second Grade (K-2) Writing Data-Based Decision Making (DBDM) Survey." The "K-2 Writing DBDM Survey" was developed to learn more about current DBDM practices specific to early writing. A total of 376 educational professionals (175 general education…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten
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Christ, Theodore J.; Ardoin, Scott P. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
Fluency and rate-based assessments, such as curriculum-based measurement, are frequently used to screen and evaluate student progress. The application of such measures are especially prevalent within special education and response to intervention models of prevention and early intervention. Although there is an extensive research and professional…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Rate, Student Evaluation, Special Education
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Biancarosa, Gina; Cummings, Kelli D. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
The primary objective of this special issue is to synthesize results from recent reading fluency research endeavors, and to link these findings to practical uses of reading curriculum-based measurement (R-CBM) tools. Taken together, the manuscripts presented in this issue discuss measurement work related to new metrics of indexing student reading…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques
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Wilcox, Kristen Campbell; Jeffery, Jill V.; Gardner-Bixler, Andrea – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
This multiple case study investigated how the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for writing and teacher evaluation system based in part on CCSS assessments might be influencing writing instruction in elementary schools. The sample included nine schools: Six achieved above-predicted performance on English Language Arts (ELA) as well as prior ELA…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Common Core State Standards, Writing Instruction, Evaluation Methods
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Manolitsis, George; Tafa, Eufimia – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine longitudinally the development of letter-sound and letter-name knowledge and their relation to each other and to various aspects of phonological awareness in a sample of Greek kindergarten children who did not know how to read. One hundred twenty children aged 58-69 months were assessed on letter-sound and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Phonological Awareness, Kindergarten, Longitudinal Studies
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Rosenblum, Sara; Weiss, Patrice L.; Parush, Shula – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
The act of writing presents difficulties for 10-30% of elementary school children. This study's objectives were to compare the abilities of digitizer-based evaluation of the handwriting process and conventional evaluation of the handwriting product to discriminate between children with proficient and dysgraphic handwriting. Copied and dictated…
Descriptors: Dysgraphia, Grade 3, Writing Difficulties, Learning Disabilities
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Dale, Philip S.; Harlaar, Nicole; Plomin, Robert – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
Many research questions require the assessment of reading in large samples of children. We compared two nonconventional procedures for early reading assessment: test administration by telephone, and teacher assessment. Five thousand five hundred and forty four children participating in a longitudinal twin study were assessed by telephone using the…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Reading Skills, Young Children