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Oxford-Carpenter, Rebecca L.; Schultz-Shiner, Linda J. – 1985
This paper addresses practical Army problems in reading assessment from a theory base reflecting the most recent research on reading comprehension. Military and occupational research shows that reading proficiency is related to job performance. Reading assessment is a key issue in the Army due to changes in the reading ability levels of the Army…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Military Personnel, Postsecondary Education, Psychometrics
Download full textBrown, Roger; Duffy, John – 1984
Once every three years, school districts receiving Chapter 1 funds are required to conduct a study of the sustained effects of their Chapter 1 programs. To meet this requirement, the Columbus Public Schools employed a fall-spring-fall test design to determine the degree to which pupils who participated in the Compensatory Language Experiences and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Longitudinal Studies
Livingston, Howard E. – Elementary English, 1974
Informal inventories offer an alternative to discredited standardized tests of reading achievement. (JH)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Informal Reading Inventories, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
Meehan, Trinita – Elementary English, 1974
An informal learning modality inventory can give the teacher valuable information for purposes of diagnosis and planning. (JH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grade 4, Informal Reading Inventories, Learning Modalities
Hollander, Sheila K. – Elementary English, 1974
The benefits accruing from a carefully administered Informal Reading Inventory make administering them well worth the time. (JH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Informal Reading Inventories, Linguistic Performance, Primary Education
Carroll, Karen – 1978
The purpose of this study was to evaluate seven reading comprehension tests according to the construct of comprehension which they claimed to measure. The 367 items from these tests were classified by two judges according to the following four levels indicated on a reading comprehension taxonomy: recognition and recall, inference, evaluation, and…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedCamp, Bonnie W.; Dahlem, Nancy W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975
By comparing a retarded reader's performance on paired associate and serial learning, results are expected to show the differences in types of learning problems. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Handicapped Children, Mental Retardation, Paired Associate Learning, Reading Difficulties
Fisher, Donald – 1980
The first of eight related documents, this booklet is part of a series of papers presented at the 1978 National Right to Read Conference examining issues and problems in literacy. In its examination of standardized reading competency tests, the booklet first offers a definition of the kind of test it will consider and the criteria the test must…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
Schell, Leo M., Ed. – 1981
Intended to help educators select diagnostic and criterion referenced reading tests for their specific purposes, this book contains reviews of nine individual and three group tests. The reviewed tests were selected for their "importance" from a list of 34 and were reviewed by experts according to their descriptions of content, test development,…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Tests
Yeh, Jennie P.; Herman, Joan L. – 1980
The results from the Oral Reading Test developed for the Early Childhood Education Program evaluation provided the opportunity to study some of the factors that might influence student's test-taking behavior. The Oral Reading Test requires individual students to demonstrate reading skills by reading aloud sentences typical of various grade level…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Examiners, Experimenter Characteristics, Grade 2
Flynn, Kathleen – 1979
A total of 94 ninth and tenth grade students participated in a study to determine which of the following six reading expectancy formulas predict actual reading achievement of secondary school students of average intelligence: the Dechant formula, the Harris I formula, the Science Research Associates'"Tests of General Ability," the Harris II…
Descriptors: Expectation, Masters Theses, Predictive Measurement, Predictive Validity
Bousquet, Robert J. – 1978
This paper provides information on black English to be used by teachers as they score errors and miscues on the oral part of informal reading inventories. The information is presented in order for teachers to understand items spoken in black English that are equivalents to standard English and that when spoken would indicate understanding of the…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Miscue Analysis
Powers, Stephen; Gallas, Edwin J. – 1980
Test scores for fall and spring administrations for two consecutive years for Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I students in the Tucson Unified School District are presented and compared. The students were given out-of-level tests: the 138 seventh-grade students and 106 eighth-grade students were given Level 2 of the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Educational Testing, Junior High Schools, Longitudinal Studies
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1980
This is a report on the results of the Citywide Reading Test administered in June, 1979, in the elementary, intermediate and junior high schools of New York City. The testing instruments used were the California Achievement Tests. Section A of this report presents information on pupil performance for the school system as a whole. Section B…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, Reading Achievement, Reading Skills
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1980
A guide for administrators' use in determining Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I eligibility of students in their schools is divided into five sections. Section I describes four rules which must be followed in identifying Title I students, and which will be monitored during the year by consultants visiting the school. Section II suggests…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Testing, Elementary Education, Federal Programs
