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PDF pending restorationBianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Equated Scores, Grade 4, Graphs
PDF pending restorationBianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Equated Scores, Grade 5, Graphs
PDF pending restorationBianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Equated Scores, Grade 5, Graphs
PDF pending restorationBianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Equated Scores, Grade 6, Graphs
PDF pending restorationBianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Equated Scores, Grade 6, Graphs
Walter, Richard Barry – 1973
This study investigated the relationship between instructional level scores as determined by a cloze test and instructional level scores as determined by an informal reading inventory (IRI). Fifty male and 50 female subjects were randomly selected from the total fifth grade population of five schools chosen from a total of 22 midwestern elementary…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Grade 5
Download full textHagstrom, Jon M. – 1974
The purpose of this project was to compare the reading levels of students in vocational programs in a two-year community college with the readability levels of the materials they were required to read in their daily learning activities. The Diagnostic Reading Test, Form A, was administered to 120 students in five different occupational courses.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Learning, Readability, Reading
Benjamin, Robert L. – 1972
A rhetorical question is an interrogative statement made under circumstances indicating that the speaker or writer does not seek a reply. It is used as a persuasive device or occasionally as a transitional phrase, but there has been little attention paid to the manner in which listeners perceive or categorize rhetorical questions. In an…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Usage, Listening Comprehension, Literary Devices
Campbell, Billy Randolph – 1972
Reported is an investigation of the relationship of reading ability and subject comprehension of 455 students in elementary grades. One set of hypotheses was related to student ability (reading and comprehension) and assigned textbooks and another related to student ability and selected materials in social studies and science at readability levels…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Elementary School Science
Bozman, Maurice Wilson – 1972
The purpose of this study was to assess the extent of the relationship between test data of problem readers diagnosed in a reading center and the kinds of recommendations made by a reading specialist at the center in the areas of phonics and comprehension. A second dimension was to assess the agreement of the diagnoses in the areas of phonics and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Centers
Dawson, Mildred A., Comp. – 1968
This book is a compilation of selected papers on comprehension and critical reading that have appeared in the annual "Proceedings in Invitational Addresses, 1965," or have been published in the journals of the International Reading Association. The articles have been grouped under several headings: (1) the nature of comprehension in reading; (2)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conference Reports, Critical Reading, Developmental Reading
Schreiner, Robert L. – 1973
The purpose of this study was to determine if verbalizing while attempting to seek the solution to a typical reading comprehension question would enhance pupil performance on a standardized measure of reading comprehension. Sixty-one seventh graders from an urban public school were selected as subjects; fifty-one were randomly assigned to eight…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Learning, Reading, Reading Comprehension
Turner, Darwin T. – 1973
Teachers of literature do not merely guide students; they also serve as critics. Teachers should remember that their classroom role as literary critics is to serve the needs of students who may not become future scholars of literature. Consequently, in deciphering the complexities of literature, teachers must focus on what the students need in…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, English Instruction, Literary Criticism, Literature
Wares, Margaret Bonds – 1971
A remedial program was developed at Nashville State Technical Institute to provide individualized instruction in mathematics, English, and reading. Students scoring less than a composite 50 percent on the five sections of a developed diagnostic reading test were assigned to the remedial reading program. The IBM Model 30 Computer was used to assign…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Conference Reports, Diagnostic Tests, Individualized Instruction
Eccles, J. J.; Moodie, A. G. – 1971
In an evaluation of the Reading Efficiency course at Windermere Secondary School, the experimental group made greater gains (statistically significant at the .01 level) in the Reading Rate subtest of the Nelson-Denny Reading Test than did the control group. The experimental group also made greater gains than the control group in reading rate on…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Grade 12, High School Students, Program Evaluation
