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Chapter 1 Technical Assistance Center, Indianapolis, IN. Region B. – 1991
This workshop leader's guide is designed to assist Technical Assistance Center staff members and other inservice providers in conducting successful workshops on reading assessment for teachers, administrators, and others associated with Chapter 1 programs. The guide contains step-by-step procedures for preparing, organizing, and presenting a one-…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, High Risk Students, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Materials
Varcadipane, Vincent N. – 1992
This report describes the process used by a small, one-building kindergarten-through-grade-six school district in New Jersey to improve the reading scores of students who had fallen below their current grade in reading. Areas of need included improving the reading scores of students in regular education, special education, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Instructional Effectiveness, Peer Teaching
Bowlin, Flora Samantha; Clawson, Kenneth – 1991
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a preschool program on achievement of first through fourth grade students in reading and math. The subjects of this study were 208 elementary students from the Estill County (Kentucky) School District. All the students were white, from low to middle socioeconomic classes. The experimental…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High Risk Students, Intermediate Grades, Mathematics Achievement
Leach, Carol A. – 1993
A study determined if a paired reading program had an effect on reading achievement and reading attitude of a selected group of 10 third graders. Student pairing was based on the results of a Student Attitude Survey which was one component of portfolio assessment. Within the survey, "at-risk" readers identified "more able"…
Descriptors: Grade 3, High Risk Students, Instructional Effectiveness, Peer Teaching
Neeland, Sheryl – 1993
To determine the effects of a hot breakfast program on elementary school students' academic achievement, absenteeism, and lateness behaviors, a study was undertaken of standardized achievement test scores for 23 second-, fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders at an elementary school participating in a district-wide breakfast program. Specifically, the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Breakfast Programs, Correlation
Nunnery, John A.; And Others – 1993
To enhance understanding of classroom climate effects on language achievement at the elementary level, this exploratory study examined cross-level interaction effects between student characteristics and student achievement. A classroom climate scale, developed for this study, was administered to 942 students in 22 schools across Tennessee.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation Branch. – 1998
The summary information in this report provides teachers, school administrators, students, and the general public in Alberta, Canada with an overview of results from the June 1998 administration of the English 33 Diploma Examination. The information in the report is most helpful when used in conjunction with the detailed school and jurisdiction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Reader Response, Reading Achievement
Bowman, Leigh A.; Carpenter, Jan; Paone, Rose Ann – 1998
This project paper described a program for increasing reading comprehension. The targeted population consisted of sixth grade students at River Bend Elementary School in a middle class community located in western Illinois. The problem of a steady decline in reading comprehension was documented by the Illinois Goals Assessment Program, Iowa Tests…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cooperative Learning, Grade 6, Graphic Organizers
Driscoll, Anne K.; Moore, Kristin A. – 1997
Receipt of welfare is often negatively correlated with children's outcomes. However, because virtually all children who live in households that receive public assistance are poor, the question arises whether poor child outcomes are truly an effect of welfare, have only a spurious relationship to welfare receipt, or are a result of welfare…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Child Welfare, Children
Arroyo, Christine – 1992
A study examined the effect of extended use of computers on reading achievement. The study population consisted of 75 seventh-grade students at the J. N. Thorp Elementary School located in a predominantly low income socio-economic neighborhood of South Chicago. Of this total, 15 students were subjected to an intensive computer assisted instruction…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 7, Instructional Effectiveness, Junior High Schools
Ediger, Marlow – 1994
Reading as a skill permeates all curriculum areas--literature, social studies, science, mathematics, health, music, art, and physical education to some extent. Teachers should do much oral reading to young learners in particular. Pupils need to experience a wide variety of trade books at a reading center, while basal readers provide a quality…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Diagnosis
Binkley, Marilyn, Ed.; Rust, Keith, Ed. – 1994
This technical report covers almost every aspect of the United States component of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement's (IEA) International Reading Literacy Study, from the inception of the project to the production of the reports. The report notes that since much has already been learned from studies such…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Grade 4, Grade 9, Intermediate Grades
Johnson, Eugene G.; And Others – 1994
Documenting the design and data analysis procedures behind the 1992 Trial State Assessment in reading, this book also provides insight into the rationale behind the technical decisions made about the program. Chapters in the book are: (1) "Overview: The Design, Implementation, and Analysis of the 1992 Trial State Assessment Program in…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Grade 4, Grade 8
National Assessment of Educational Progress, Princeton, NJ. – 1993
The National Assessment of Educational Progress' (NAEP) 1992 reading assessment was administered to nationally representative samples of 4th-, 8th- and 12-grade students attending public and private schools, and to state representative public-school samples of 4th graders in 43 jurisdictions. In Colorado, 2,897 fourth-grade students in 122 public…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Public Schools
Howard, Walter J., III – 1994
A program was developed to improve the reading scores and communication skills of ninth-grade students from multicultural backgrounds. The students' socioeconomic status ranges from below the poverty level to upper middle class. The population of the high school in suburban Chicago (Illinois) is multiethnic, the English is not always the primary…
Descriptors: Action Research, Communication Skills, Cooperative Learning, Grade 9
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