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Piasta, Shayne B.; Farley, Kristin S.; Phillips, Beth M.; Anthony, Jason L.; Bowles, Ryan P. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2018
The Letter-Sound Short Forms (LSSFs) were designed to meet criteria for effective progress monitoring tools by exhibiting strong psychometrics, offering multiple equivalent forms, and being brief and easy to administer and score. The present study expands available psychometric information for the LSSFs by providing an initial examination of their…
Descriptors: Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Preschool Children, Progress Monitoring, Test Validity
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Säre, Egle; Luik, Piret; Fisher, Robert – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
The purpose of this study was to design an instrument for five- to six-year-old children to help measure their verbal reasoning skills and assess the validity and reliability of the resulting instrument. For this purpose, the researchers have created the Younger Children Verbal Reasoning Test (YCVR-test) and a control instrument, which have been…
Descriptors: Educational Researchers, Verbal Ability, Thinking Skills, Verbal Tests
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Shamir, Adina; Baruch, Dorit – Educational Media International, 2012
Mathematical learning difficulties can originate at an early age. However, research on young children's math development, especially those who are at risk, is in its early stages. The current study is the first to examine the effects of an activity with an educational e-book on emergent math with 52 preschoolers at risk for learning disability…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Beck, Isabel L.; McKeown, Margaret G. – Elementary School Journal, 2007
This article reports on 2 studies with kindergarten and first-grade children from a low-achieving elementary school that provided vocabulary instruction by the students' regular classroom teacher of sophisticated words (advanced vocabulary words) from children's trade books that are typically read aloud. Study 1 compared the number of…
Descriptors: Verbal Tests, Vocabulary, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten