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Lee, Dorris M.; Allen, R. V. – 1963
This book discusses a plan for "learning to read through experience." It is a plan for developing reading ability as an integral part of the development of all the communication skills. It is intended to build on and to continue to provide individual experiences for each child while increasing the common group experiences. Although the plan…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Communication Skills, Diagnostic Teaching, Group Testing
Download full textRodman, Joan I. – 1973
The development of 10 preschool children who attended the Southeast Kansas Demonstration Child Development Center was compared with the development of 10 preschool children who did not attend a child care center to ascertain the value of the center's program. Both groups were tested with the Denver Developmental Screening Test at the beginning and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Development Centers, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Reynolds, Irene; Williams, Virginia – 1974
The DPI Criterion-Referenced Pre-Reading Screening Test is to be used as one means of identifying some strengths and weaknesses in certain areas of pre-reading skills. It is intended to be used as a screening instrument for beginning first graders. The areas of pre-reading skills to be screened are (1) auditory perception, (2) letter knowledge,…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Basic Vocabulary, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Diagnosis
Farnsworth, Linda L.; And Others – 1975
A total of 211 kindergarten children, aged 63 to 81 months, were classified into two groups according to the risk of failure in first grade predicted for them on the basis of their performance on the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) and the Draw a Person (DAP) test. According to prediction, Group I children without intervention would probably…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Diagnosis, Grade 1, Intellectual Development
Woods, Carol; And Others – 1974
The purpose of this study was to assess the influence of parental participation in school on the assistance parents could give their children outside of the classroom. A Parent Involvement Program was developed in the Mesa, Arizona Title I schools to help raise the consistently low reading readiness scores of the kindergarteners in these schools.…
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Disadvantaged Youth, Intervention, Kindergarten Children
Olson, Arthur V.; Rosen Carl L. – 1971
A variety of factor analysis techniques were employed to explore the structure of five reading readiness instruments (Gates Reading Readiness Test, Developmental Tests of Visual Perception, Metropolitan Readiness Tests, Specially Constructed Readiness Test by Olson, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) as predictor variables of performance on…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Early Childhood Education, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
Coombe, Christine A., Ed. – 1998
Papers from the 1997 and 1998 Current Trends in English Language Testing (CTELT) conferences include: "Computer-Based Language Testing: The Call of the Internet" (G. Fulcher); "Uses of the PET (Preliminary English Test) at Sultan Qaboos University" (R. Taylor); "Issues in Foreign and Second Language Academic Listening…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Second Language Programs, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
Ekstrom, Ruth B. – 1976
The Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study (BTES), Phase II, was a research project on effective teaching behavior--what teachers do that significantly affects what and how pupils learn. The purposes of Phase II were to (1) develop an assessment system for measuring teacher and student behaviors and other factors which could influence each of them and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Style
Brooks, Greg; Davies, Rachael; Duckett, Laura; Hutchison, Dougal; Kendall, Sally; Wilkin, Anne – 2001
The progress made by adults in dedicated mainstream basic skills provision in England and Wales and factors associated with students' progress were examined. Of the 2,135 students from 71 colleges of further education and local education authorities who took the reading pretest, 1,224 (57%) took the reading posttest. Writing scripts were received…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
González, Rosa María – Online Submission, 2006
This report summarizes Austin Independent School District's (AISD's) 2005-2006 bilingual and English as a second language programs.
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Powers, Stephen; Price-Johnson, Connie – Online Submission, 2006
Background: The Waterford Early Reading Program (WERP), a technology-based program for early elementary grades, was provided through Arizona all day kindergarten funds to kindergarten students in 15 Title I elementary schools in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) in the 2005-06 school year. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests
Greenlaw, M. Jean; Moore, David – 1978
A review of literature by reading authorities identified seven criteria necessary for meaningful research about reading readiness tests. These criteria were then used in analysis of 15 research studies dealing with the "Metropolitan Readiness Test" and first grade reading achievement. Five major findings resulted from this analysis:…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Evaluation Criteria, Individualized Instruction, Literature Reviews
Bougere, Marguerite B. – 1968
The relationship between first-grade reading achievement and selected experimental language measures was investigated. The measures selected for study were (1) number of T-units (communication units) spoken in an experimental situation, (2) mean length of T-unit, (3) ratio of subordinate clause length to T-unit length, (4) ratio of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Kernel Sentences, Language Patterns
Olson, Arthur V.; Rosen, Carl L. – 1971
The technique of factor analysis was used to explore the structure of five batteries of readiness tests (Gates Reading Readiness Test, Developmental Tests of Visual Perception, Metropolitan Readiness Tests, Specially Constructed Readiness Test by Olson, and Wechsler Intelligence for Children) as predictor variables for the Stanford Achievement…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Associative Learning, Auditory Perception, Concept Formation
Nashville - Davidson County Metropolitan Public Schools, TN. – 1970
This report evaluates Higher Ground, an ESEA Title I project conducted in and by the metropolitan public schools of Nashville, Tennessee. The project focused on five activity areas: reading improvement programs, kindergarten programs for 5-year-olds, health and nutrition services, outdoor education, and multidisciplinary team intervention.…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Schools
