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Kreeft, Henk; Sanders, Piet – 1983
In the Dutch national examinations, reading comprehension tests are used for all languages. For the native language, reading comprehension is tested with reading passages and related questions to which the test-taker provides his own response, not choosing from a group of alternatives. One problem encountered in testing with these items is…
Descriptors: Dutch, Evaluation Methods, Evaluators, Foreign Countries
Carroll, John B. – 1986
Two major issues are addressed in this commentary on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessment: the design of the reading proficiency scale and interpretation of test data; and the dimensionality of this scale and the possibility of supplying data on specific skill dimensions. An examination of NAEP data and the…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Equated Scores, National Surveys
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1986
The Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) was developed by the Texas Education Agency (TEA), in response to Texas House Bill 72 (1984), which mandated a new basic skills assessment program for mathematics, reading, and writing at grades 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11. This is one in a series of Instructional Strategies Guides designed to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Grade 5, Instructional Development
Download full textAlberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1985
Intended for both teachers and students, this bulletin presents specific information about the design, parts, and scoring of the Grade 9 English Language Arts Achievement Test for the 1985-86 school year in Alberta, Canada. General information is presented regarding the (1) purpose and nature of the Achievement Testing Program (ATP), (2) students…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Ingle, Judith K. – 1985
Since 1984, the Language Arts Lab at Irmo High School (Columbia, South Carolina) has provided: (1) remediation in reading and writing to students with low standardized test scores; and (2) assistance to other students in the areas of study skills, college entrance exam preparation, term papers, reading and reading assignments, grammar, and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, High Schools, Language Arts, Language Skills
Greif, Ivo P. – 1981
Doubts about the reading vocabulary adequacies of today's high school graduates led to an experiment with a list of 199 difficult words culled from the "Reader's Digest." College juniors and seniors (298 in the first stage and 388 in the second stage) were asked to indicate whether they knew the pronunciation and the meaning of the…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, College Students, Context Clues, Definitions
Steele, D. Joyce – 1985
This paper contains a comparison of descriptive information based on analyses of pilot and live administrations of the Alabama High School Graduation Examination (AHSGE). The test is composed of three subject tests: Reading, Mathematics, and Language. The study was intended to validate the test development procedure by comparing difficulty levels…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level, Graduation Requirements
Phillips, Linda M. – 1988
The design and development of a test of inference ability in reading comprehension for grades 6, 7, and 8 (the Phillips-Patterson Test of Inference Ability in Reading Comprehension) are described. After development of a contemporary theoretical framework for the test of inference ability in reading comprehension, the design, item development, and…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 6
Ketcham, Clay A., Ed. – 1963
The proceedings of the sixth annual meeting of the College Reading Association included the following papers: (1) "President's Report: Retrospect and Prospect" (Mrs. H. E. Ketcham); (2) "Can Reading Instruction Meet the Present Academic Challenge?" (P. D. Leedy); (3) "Hereditary Factors in Certain Reading…
Descriptors: Closed Circuit Television, College Programs, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
Layton, Kent – 1983
A study was conducted to determine if a teacher-constructed cloze procedure correlated significantly with two standardized tests of reading achievement, thereby testing G.D. Spache's claim that most teachers are unable to design valid and reliable assessment materials. Subjects were 60 fourth and sixth grade students who were administered the…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Grade 4, Grade 6
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1988
Intended for students taking the English 30 Grade 12 Diploma Examinations in Alberta, Canada, this test (to be administered along with a questions booklet) contains the reading selections portion of Part B, the reading component of the June 1988 tests. Representing the genres of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, the 10 selections consist of:…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1988
Intended for students taking the English 30 Grade 12 Diploma Examinations in Alberta, Canada, this booklet contains 80 multiple choice test items related to the 10 selections in the reading booklet of Part B, the reading component of the June 1988 tests. The questions examine students' skills in: (1) understanding meanings; (2) recalling materials…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1988
Intended for students taking the English 33 Grade 12 Diploma Examinations in Alberta, Canada, this test (to be administered along with a questions booklet) contains the reading selections portion of Part B, the reading component of the June 1988 tests. The following short selections taken from fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and day-to-day…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Bensoussan, Marsha; Mauranen, Anna – 1989
Parallel studies at universities in Israel, Finland, Canada, and the United States used a "selected deletion gap-filling test," a variation on the cloze procedure designed to measure reading comprehension by testing the reader's familiarity with cohesive links and grasp of text coherence. The test design responded to the growing demand for a more…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis
Gomez, Mary Louise – 1986
The At-Risk Student Program Area, part of the National Center on Effective Secondary Schools, will study how at-risk secondary school students are affected by special programs, efforts toward school improvement, and policies of admission and attendance. This paper describes the testing procedures that will be used. Data will be collected in six…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attendance, Discipline Problems, Dropout Rate
