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Hermes, Liesel – 1987
This paper describes the experience of a German teacher of English as a second language (ESL) in using recreational reading as an integral part of ESL instruction and gives suggestions for materials and techniques to use in the classroom. The discussion begins with a description of foreign language instruction in the German school system and…
Descriptors: Audiotape Cassettes, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design, Dictionaries
Fallon, Gerald; Morse, Marie – 1987
Alberta's curriculum guide for French immersion programs outlines the programs' rationale and objectives and the content of the oral language, reading, and writing components for six years. An introductory section discusses the aim of developing language competence and recent theory on competence. The role of language as an instrument of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Difficulty Level, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
Ridgeway, Gretchen Freiheit – 1982
A one-parameter latent trait model was the basis of the test development procedures in the Basic Skills Assessment Program (BSAP) of the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS). Several issues are involved in applying the Rasch model to an assessment program in a large school district. Separate sets of skills continua are arranged by…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Dependents Schools, Difficulty Level
Ziomek, Robert L.; Wright, Benjamin D. – 1984
Techniques such as the norm-referenced and average score techniques, commonly used in the identification of educationally disadvantaged students, are critiqued. This study applied latent trait theory, specifically the Rasch Model, along with teacher judgments relative to the mastery of instructional/test decisions, to derive a standard setting…
Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Difficulty Level, Educationally Disadvantaged, Intermediate Grades
Norris, Stephen P.; King, Ruth – 1984
This report describes the design of a test of one aspect of critical thinking ability, the ability to correctly appraise observations. Intended for classroom use with senior high school students, the 50 item Test on Appraising Observations is based on a comprehensive set of principles modified from Robert Ennes' conception of good observation…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Critical Thinking, Diagnostic Tests, Difficulty Level
Cahen, Leonard S. – 1976
The "A" testing program of the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study, Phase III-B, is summarized. A sample of 150 second grade and 134 fifth grade students completed the reading and mathematics achievement battery, as well as affective scales regarding reading, mathematics, and school. The administration procedures, test results, and psychometric…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Affective Measures, Difficulty Level
Tamor, Lynne – 1977
Traditionally, studies of beginning reading have focused either on between-subjects' differences or on changes in reading performance characteristics induced by specific training procedures. A third approach to reading is a within-subjects' comparison of individual performance characteristics at varying difficulty levels. The present study…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Difficulty Level
Brittain, Mary M. – 1981
An 11 page chapter from a sixth grade social studies text was used in a study assessing the complexities of comprehending social studies materials and the sensitivity of prospective and experienced teachers to these complexities. A sentence-by-sentence analysis of the thinking operations required for mastery of the material showed that numerous…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Difficulty Level, Elementary School Teachers
Graves, Michael F.; And Others – 1980
A study was conducted to investigate children's ability to deal with multiple meaning words in isolation and in context. Four low-ability students and four high-ability students from grades two, four, and six were shown nouns rated at the prefourth, presixth, and pretenth grade levels, and asked to give the meaning of the words. Students received…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Grade 2
Douglass, James B. – 1981
Relationships between item bias, item difficulty invariance, Rasch tests of item fit, and item position in a speeded 72-item Michigan State University Vocabulary Placement Test were investigated using 143 black males, 289 black females, 2,953 white males and 3,271 white females. Measures of item bias and item difficulty invariance were determined…
Descriptors: Black Students, Computer Programs, Correlation, Difficulty Level
Koch, Diane A.; And Others – 1979
This study sought to explore the possible relationship between parental style of psychological defense and children's social competence in 50 families in which one parent had been hospitalized for a psychiatric disorder. The children sampled were nine 4-year-olds, eleven 7-year-olds and thirty 10-year-olds. Based upon a formal analysis of the…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Difficulty Level, Institutionalized Persons
Ross, Steven M.; And Others – 1979
Undergraduates in two experiments learned ten mathematical rules under different strategies of adapting instruction to individual needs. An adaptive model developed by Hansen was structured to use multiple predictors for two purposes: (1) to classify students into four independent learning style groups, thus allowing for group-based adaptation;…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Contingency Management, Difficulty Level, Higher Education
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Utande, Emmanuel A.; Dornbusch, Sanford M. – 1977
The frequency of evaluation across organizational levels (i.e., evaluation of inferiors by superiors) is related to three variables: the existence of bureaucratic rules, availability of information across levels, and interaction among participants. In a processual perspective, as opposed to a structural one, evaluation is viewed as a key mechanism…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Board of Education Policy, Bureaucracy, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Uzgiris, Ina C. – 1977
This paper describes seven interrelated studies concerned with children's understanding of sequential actions and with the effects of observing a model on this understanding. A total of 546 elementary and secondary school students served as subjects for the studies. The tasks for all of the studies involved deriving the pattern for a sequence from…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
Jones, Elizabeth; Prescott, Elizabeth – 1978
The experiences of one non-profit day care center are used as illustrative material in this discussion of preschool teaching-learning environments. Chapter 1 introduces the volume with a brief argument stressing the importance of play in the preschool. Chapter 2 describes the problems at a non-profit day care center and presents staff dialogue…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Responsibility, Classroom Design, Classroom Techniques
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