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…

A sample of 175 students, constituting grades 10, 11, and 12 of two high schools, was used in the validation of a new Syllabication Skills Test. On the first day, the students completed four forms of the syllabication test; on the second, they completed Survey F of the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests. Means and standard deviations were similar for…

This study explored the validation of a criterion or reference score for determining the adequacy of any individual's cloze score. The hypothesis tested in this research was that a cloze preformance of 40 percent on materials ranging in difficulty from grades 4 to 8 will predict a 75 percent criterion level of reading comprehension based on a…

A questionnaire was designed to study the uses made of reading tests by classroom teachers in Indiana with at least one year of experience in their respective classrooms. Of the 185 questionnaires distributed by local reading councils, 51 questionnaires were returned. The teachers responding taught in grades one through seven. They reported using…

The seven papers in this booklet include "Continuous Progress in Reading," which discusses managing continuing progress programs, clarifies the rationale underlying continuous progress programs, outlines a developmental checklist of objectives, and offers suggestions for arranging for continuous assessment of progress and providing for…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether students who had been diagnosed as reading learners (by scoring above the mean on the advanced California Reading Test) or listening learners (by scoring above the mean on form Am of the Brown Carlsen Listening Comprehension Test) achieve at the same level using programed material presented in a…

The Informal Reading Inventories included in this booklet are designed to determine the independent, instructional, and frustration levels of a student. An inventory may be used as a quick means of determining the reading levels for a new student, as a means of determining reading groups, and as a simple diagnostic tool for determining deficient…

A study designed to identify specific reading skill development among children generally described as disadvantaged is reported. In October 1966 1,057 children in grades 3 through 6 from two New Orleans elementary schools were tested in intact classroom groups using the reading subtest of the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT), the Silent Reading…