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Australian Council for Educational Research, Hawthorn. – 1989
Designed for use in the selection of apprentices, trainees, technical and trade personnel, and any other persons who need to read and understand text of a technical nature, this Applied Reading Test specimen set contains six passages and 32 items, has a 30-minute time limit, and is presented in a reusable multiple choice test booklet. The specimen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multiple Choice Tests, Occupational Tests, Postsecondary Education
Johnson, Marjorie Seddon; And Others – 1987
Representing a comprehensive description of the use of informal reading inventories (IRIs), this book is designed to provide teachers and reading specialists with practical strategies for forming diagnostic impressions that are useful for planning reading instruction. Respectively, chapters discuss (1) the purpose and nature of IRIs; (2)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Reading Achievement
Download full textMorris, Darrell – 1986
In accordance with current recommendations concerning teaching reading to kindergarten children, this paper presents a kindergarten reading curriculum. Included are a description of major instructional techniques, a time-line illustrating how instruction might evolve across the school year, and finally, a battery of informal tasks for assessing…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Kindergarten, Language Experience Approach
Wiley, Patricia Davis; Boser, Judith A. – 1987
A study involving two groups of graduate teacher-education students was undertaken to compare the effectiveness of traditional post-baccalaureate teacher training with that of a funded, innovative, selective program for liberal arts graduates known as the Lyndhurst Program. The performance of these two groups of subjects on the Pre-Professional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Tests
Webb, Mel – 1984
A study was conducted at Florissant Valley Community College (FVCC) to compare three standardized tests--the Iowa Silent Reading Test (ISRT), the Nelson-Denny Reading Test (NDRT), and the Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test (SDRT)--for use in assessing student reading skills. The study population of 402 students included 216 students who agreed to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Grades (Scholastic), Predictive Validity, Reading Achievement
Johnson, Berman E. – 1984
Since 1979, DeKalb Community College has used the Reading, English and Mathematics (REM) Test, which combines testing materials from three different sources, as an admissions and placement instrument. In spring 1984, a study was conducted to verify the results of a previous investigation, which had revealed significant correlation between REM Test…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Community Colleges, Correlation, Predictive Validity
Feeley, Joan T.; Wepner, Shelley B. – 1984
A study was conducted to determine the effects of exposure to the topics included on the comprehension subtest of the Nelson-Denny Reading Test (ND), Form F, on college freshmen's performance on the test. In addition, the study investigated whether those students with background information would indicate their awareness of this knowledge on a…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Higher Education, Interaction, Performance Factors
Cintavey, Kathleen – 1989
A study investigated the relationship between attendance and reading ability and the difference in attendance or reading ability attributed to gender or race. The measuring instrument was the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests. An interracial group comprised of 33 students, 18 males and 15 females, was placed in a semester-long reading improvement…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Attendance, High School Students, High Schools
Marzano, Robert J. – 1987
To study the relationship between inferences made on standardized reading tests and item difficulty, 50 items on the reading comprehension section of the Metropolitan Achievement Test were analyzed independently in this study by two raters using four general categories of inferences: (1) reference inferences, (2) between proposition inferences,…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Inferences, Language Processing, Learning Strategies
Manning, Gary; And Others – 1985
This study investigated the relationship between and among the results of three types of reading assessments in the first grade: a standardized reading test (the Stanford Achievement Tests); an informal reading inventory (the Classroom Reading Inventory); and teacher judgment of student rank in reading achievement. The study included 165 first…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Grade 1, Informal Reading Inventories, Primary Education
Swartz, Richard; Whitney, Douglas R. – 1985
The primary purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between scores on the multiple-choice General Educational Development (GED) Writing Skills test and scores on holistically graded essays. Secondary purposes included the following: (1) examining the relationship of essay scores to scores on the multiple-choice GED Reading Skills…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, High School Equivalency Programs, Reading Tests, Test Reliability
Kaake, Ray; And Others – Review and Evaluation Bulletins, 1982
An addition to the teacher's repertoire of silent reading tests is the formal cloze procedure. This test requires the reader to replace exactly individual words deleted from a reading passage. It serves to identify those students who are not reading at an expected level, but it does not suggest why this is so. However, with modifications to both…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cloze Procedure, Evaluation Methods, Identification
Miles, J.; And Others – Slow Learning Child, 1973
Descriptors: Children, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Performance Factors
Furr, Oneta R. – 1977
Recent research has revealed that informal inventories of students' abilities can be useful in reading diagnosis. Teachers need to be aware of the occasions during the school day which permit informal observation or testing of skills related to reading. The purpose of this study was to determine if classroom teachers, through informal observation…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Informal Reading Inventories, Intelligence
Peer reviewedKolers, Paul A. – Cognitive Psychology, 1975
The role of a hypothetical metalinguistic semantic component is assessed and contrasted with the role of a semantic component derived from the very words on the printed page, and this in turn is contrasted with the influence of the graphemic, pattern analyzing component of sentence memory. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Bilingual Students, College Students, Pattern Recognition
