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Dunn-Rankin, Peter – 1972
This paper reports initial results in the development of an inventory to measure visual reading difficulties. The instrument, called the Word Preference Inventory (WPI), asks the subject to choose between pairs of stimulus pseudo-words the one most like a given target word. An analysis of responses to the WPI from 922 children in grades K-6 and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Research, Reading Tests
Skiba, Russell; And Others – 1983
Research on the analysis of time-series data has shown that decisions reached through visual analysis of the data may be influenced by the statistical parameters of those data. The current study investigated the statistical properties of curriculum-based time-series data for 68 elementary resource room students in four Minnesota school districts.…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education, Reading Tests

Egeland, Byron; And Others – 1976
Thirty-five second-grade learning disabled children participated in a visual information processing training program designed to teach analysis of visual material into component parts, systematic scanning of visual arrays, pick-up, description, and memory storage of distinctive information, and efficient solution of visual match-to-sample…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Handicapped, Achievement Tests, Cognitive Processes