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I. Birkan Guldenoglu; Tevhide Kargin; Paul Miller – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
The purpose of this study was to compare the word processing and reading comprehension skilled in and less skilled readers. Forty-nine, 2nd graders (26 skilled and 23 less skilled readers) participated in this study. They were tested with two experiments assessing their processing of isolated real word and pseudoword pairs as well as their reading…
Descriptors: Word Processing, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Comparative Analysis
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Shermis, Mark D.; Shneyderman, Aleksandr; Attali, Yigal – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2008
This study was designed to examine the extent to which "content" accounts for variance in scores assigned in automated essay scoring protocols. Specifically it was hypothesised that certain writing genre would emphasise content more than others. Data were drawn from 1668 essays calibrated at two grade levels (6 and 8) using "e-rater[TM]", an…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Test Scoring Machines, Essays, Grade 8
Kercher, Lydia; McClurg, Patricia – 1985
This paper explores the issue of how, when, and where to teach keyboarding at the elementary school level through a review of the keyboarding literature and descriptions of three studies conducted with fifth grade students in the laboratory school at the University of Wyoming. The literature review briefly summarizes findings on the following…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Comparative Analysis, Creative Writing, Grade 5