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Greene, Jay P.; Winters, Marcus A. – Center for Civic Innovation, 2004
Nine states and three of the nation's biggest cities have adopted mandates intended to end "social promotion"? promoting students to the next grade level regardless of their academic proficiency. These policies require students in certain grades to reach a minimum benchmark on a standardized test in order to move on to the next grade. Florida,…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 3, Standardized Tests, Reading Tests
Schenck, E. Allen; Walker, Douglas R.; Nagel, Carrie R.; Webb, Loretta C. – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2005
The National Reading Panel (NRP) issued a report in 2000 that responded to a congressional mandate to help parents, teachers, and policymakers identify key skills and instructional methods central to reading achievement. The panel identified five areas that they found to be critical to effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, State Standards, Academic Standards, Student Evaluation
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Martin, Ruby W. – Journal of Reading, 1972
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, Black Teachers, College Instruction
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Somervill, Mary Ann; Jacobs, John F. – Negro Educational Review, 1972
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Dialect Studies, Educationally Disadvantaged
Funderburk, Henry M. – North Carolina Education, 1973
Surveys and evaluates Title I elementary reading programs in North Carolina and offers some recommendations for improving the program. (DM)
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Reading Difficulty, Reading Instruction
Carver, Ronald P. – J Educ Meas, 1970
Two studies analyze and evaluate the use of the chunk," a small group of meaningfully related words within a sentence, as a test item in reading and listening tests. (PR)
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Listening Comprehension Tests, Measurement Techniques, Multiple Choice Tests
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Byrne, Sister Mary Ann; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1971
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Divergent Thinking
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Ladd, Eleanor M. – Reading Teacher, 1971
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Diagnostic Teaching, Error Patterns, Item Analysis
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Bruininks, Robert H.; Lucker, William G. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1970
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Intelligence Tests, Longitudinal Studies
Foley, Dolores A. – Int Reading Assn Conf Proc Pt 1, 1968
Descriptors: Ability Identification, High Schools, Individualized Programs, Instructional Materials
Sullivan, Joanna – Int Reading Assn Conf Proc Pt 1, 1968
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Program Descriptions, Program Development, Reading Comprehension
Brigham, Bruce W. – J Reading Spec, 1970
Descriptors: Measurement Instruments, Performance Factors, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests
Dulin, Kenneth La Marr – J Reading, 1969
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Context Clues, Grade 10, Middle Class
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Backman, Joan – Reading Research Quarterly, 1983
Study results do not demonstrate that early reading is made possible by precocity in speech-sound segmentation, blending, or discrimination ability, but that the complex skill involving the manipulation of sounds in temporal order may be more closely related to early reading ability. (AEA)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Development, Early Reading, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Powers, Stephen; And Others – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1983
The validity of the equipercentile hypothesis of the Title I Evaluation and Reporting System norm-referenced evaluation model was examined using 3,224 seventh- and ninth-grade students. Findings from confidence interval procedures contradicted the equipercentile hypothesis. There was a pattern of large gains for students not receiving any special…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs, Hypothesis Testing
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