Indicates that the assessment of reading comprehension should be evaluated in the light of potentially differential benefits resulting from the test form and its interactive effects on children with particular trait dispositions. (Author)

The article outlines some practical and theoretical weaknesses of the concept of 'reading age'. (Author)

Suggests an easy method to check phonic skills and learn what help the child needs to improve his reading ability. (TO)

Article investigated the effectiveness of a procedure designed to accurately reflect a student's reading level. (Editor/RK)

Studies the concept of the communication of positive expectancies in the classroom by examining the effects of different sources of expectancy on reading performance for compensatory program pupils. (Author/DEP)

Investigates the assumption that youth culture orientation adversely affects school performance, using rock music as the youth culture component. (Author/DEP)

Reviews the Sucher-Allred Reading Placement Inventory (S-ARPI), a commercially produced test that is similar in many respects to informal reading inventories. (RB)

For use by those preparing statewide competency testing programs and those developing basic skills examinations at the postsecondary level, this paper provides guidelines for writing items for tests of basic reading skills. Following a discussion of how to choose appropriate items, how to word items, and how to select appropriate reading passages,…

Testing reading by testing the bits and pieces of reading leads to teaching the bits and pieces instead of teaching reading. Reading is a total skill rather than a subject, and a skill can best be tested by performance. Some of the purposes for reading tests include showing test score improvement, diagnosis, satisfying parents, grouping or sorting…

THE TEST WAS DESIGNED TO ASSESS SPEED OF READING COMPREHENSION. IT CONSISTED OF NUMBERED PASSAGES, ONE TO THREE SENTENCES IN LENGTH, ARRANGED IN PARAGRAPH FORM TO SIMULATE THE NORMAL READING EXERCISE. TOWARD THE END OF EACH PASSAGE, A WORD WAS INSERTED WHICH SPOILED THE MEANING OF THE PASSAGE. THE PUPILS WERE INSTRUCTED TO FIND THE WORD THAT…

One hundred and seventy-four Texas Christian University developmental reading students participated in an investigation which applied the residual gain technique to individual reading gains as measured by the cloze procedure. Comparisons were made between cloze crude gains and cloze residual gains and between cloze tests constructed with lexical…

The Inventory of Teacher Knowledge of Reading was administered to a sample of 60 freshmen, 60 juniors, and 60 seniors in elementary education at the University of Illinois. In addition, it was administered to 60 experienced teachers who had not attended the University of Illinois as undergraduates. An analysis of variance of the test scores was…

This monograph presents a comprehensive bibliography of all reading tests published in English-speaking countries as of May 1, 1968, as well as a classified index to all tests and reviews in the six Mental Measurements Yearbooks (MMY). The MMY Test Index is a master index or key to all tests, reviews, excerpts, and references to be found in The…