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Assessing Reading Fluency in Kenya: Oral or Silent Assessment?
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Piper, Benjamin; Zuilkowski, Stephanie Simmons – International Review of Education, 2015
In recent years, the Education for All movement has focused more intensely on the quality of education, rather than simply provision. Many recent and current education quality interventions focus on literacy, which is the core skill required for further academic success. Despite this focus on the quality of literacy instruction in developing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Fluency, Reading Tests, Oral Reading
Assessing the Language Acquisition Progress of Limited English Proficient Students: Problems and a New Alternative.
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Royer, James M.; Carlo, Maria S. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1991
Measures of linguistic competence for limited-English-proficient students are discussed. The results for 134 students in grades 3 through 6 from a study of the reliability and validity of the Sentence Verification Technique tests as measures of listening and reading comprehension performance in native languages and English are reported. (TJH)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Comparative Testing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Technical Report: Tests of General Ability and Tests of Reading, Inter-American Series, Forms CE, DE, CEs, DEs.
Guidance Testing Associates, Austin, TX. – 1967
The purpose of this technical report is to describe the Tests of General Ability and Tests of Reading of the Inter-American Series, to give a brief account of their construction, and to present related statistical data. Norms and suggestions on the use and interpretation of the tests are published separately. The Inter-American Series discussed in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Biculturalism, Bilingualism