The "Test Development Notebook" is a resource designed for the preparation of tests of literal comprehension for students in grades 1 through 12. This volume contains 120 multiple-choice cloze exercises taken from front page stories, feature stories, and editorials of newspapers; and the accompanying answer key. Each exercise carries the code…

Describes an informal test for determining a student's ability to use context clues in decoding unfamiliar words. (TO)

The Group Embedded Figures Test and the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills were administered to 222 sixth grade students to explore the relationship between field-dependent/field-independent cognitive styles and reading achievement; scores from the Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Tests were used to control IQ. The 60 students with the highest scores and the…

The Minnesota Reading Examination for College Students and the Minnesota Speed of Reading Test were administered to 865 University of Minnesota freshmen in 1978. When these test results were compared to the scores on the same tests that 1,313 freshmen and 4,191 high school seniors received in 1928, the 1978 students scored significantly lower than…

Three components of the Detroit Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) Basic Projects are evaluated here: (1) Individualization of Instruction: Elementary and Middle School Sub-Component; (2) Total Curriculum Reading Thrust: Elementary and Middle School Sub-Component; and (3) Parent Training: Home Curriculum Specialists and Assistants Sub-Component. All…

The procedures used to establish the validity of the Minnesota Reading Assessment (MRA) are described in this paper. The MRA is described as a measure designed for use with students in community colleges, business schools, technical schools, and other secondary and postsecondary training institutions in order to measure student competence in…

Reporting on the construction and validation of instruments for the evaluation of students in the first stages of reading and spelling instruction, this paper first discusses how teachers themselves can determine a student's learning progress with the help of evaluation instruments. Distinguishing between formative evaluation and diagnostic…

Errors in oral reading tests result from inaccuracies that tend to creep in because children are not totally consistent while taking a test and from inaccuracies caused when the examiner does not catch a word recognition error, giving credit for an answer that is more wrong than right or vice versa. Every test contains a standard error of…

After employees of private firms completed several rapid reading classes and achieved remarkable gains on the Nelson-Denny Reading Test, the question was raised as to whether the increases in scores were due to the increased number of items attempted on the posttest. A preliminary analysis indicated that students attempted an average of 14.6 and…

This taxonomy is designed to be used by teachers who are preparing New York state students to take the Tests of General Educational Development (GED). The skills included in this taxonomy are representative of those skills which must be mastered in order to pass the reading skills test of the current six-hour GED. Educational objectives in the…

FIFTY-ONE SURVEY-TYPE GROUP READING TESTS DESIGNED FOR USE WITH HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE SUMMARIZED AND REVIEWED BRIEFLY. INFORMATION IS GIVEN ON THE RELIABILITY, VALIDITY, CONTENT, NUMBER OF FORMS, GRADE LEVEL, WORKING AND ADMINISTRATION TIME, DATA, PUBLISHER, GENERAL ABILITIES MEASURED, AND AUTHORS OF EACH TEST. COMMENTS ABOUT TEST…

UNDER TWO GRANTS FROM THE NEW EDUCATIONAL MEDIA BRANCH OF THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT THE AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH FROM 1963 THROUGH 1967 EXAMINED MAJOR VARIABLES IN LISTENING COMPREHENSION WHEN COLLEGE-AGE STUDENTS ARE EXPOSED TO RATE-CONTROLLED SPEECH. THE TECHNIQUE USED TO ALTER THE RATE OF PRESENTATION OF…

This exercise set provides access to the 134 items released from the first National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessment conducted in 1970-71 with students aged 9, 13, and 17. The exercises are intended for use by state and local education agencies who may want to build their own assessment instruments. An overview of the…

The one parameter latent trait theory of Georg Rasch has two assumptions: that student abilities can be measured on an equal interval scale, and that the success of a student with a given item is a function of student achievement and item difficulty. The grade four Michigan Educational Assessment Program reading test was designed to measure…