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Kaake, Ray; And Others – Review and Evaluation Bulletins, 1982
An addition to the teacher's repertoire of silent reading tests is the formal cloze procedure. This test requires the reader to replace exactly individual words deleted from a reading passage. It serves to identify those students who are not reading at an expected level, but it does not suggest why this is so. However, with modifications to both…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cloze Procedure, Evaluation Methods, Identification
Download full textFurr, Oneta R. – 1977
Recent research has revealed that informal inventories of students' abilities can be useful in reading diagnosis. Teachers need to be aware of the occasions during the school day which permit informal observation or testing of skills related to reading. The purpose of this study was to determine if classroom teachers, through informal observation…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Informal Reading Inventories, Intelligence
Cavett, Dorcas C. – 1982
Noting that ratios can be used to great advantage in scoring informal reading tests, such as the cloze procedure and the informal reading inventory, this paper explains the procedures for calculating cross-ratios and percentages when computing scores for informal reading assessments. Examples are provided for using ratios to determine scores for…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Computation, Elementary Education, Informal Assessment
Neufeld, Karen; Lindsley, Ogden R. – 1978
The Standard Celeration Chart and its related research principles were used in a study to determine the reading level on the informal reading inventory that promotes highest speed or accuracy of learning. For ten school days, 49 fifth graders read and charted their progress at four levels: instructional level, one grade below, and two and six…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 5, Informal Reading Inventories, Learning Processes
Bowden, Nancy Butler; Lane, Wilson H. – 1979
The reliability of short versus long passages in informal reading inventories was compared. After 132 fourth grade students were tested with the Standard Reading Inventory, Form B, they read longer passages in either the oral or silent modes. Students with higher silent reading scores read long passages orally, while students with higher oral…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 4, Informal Reading Inventories, Reading Achievement
Davidson, Emma Sue – 1980
A study was conducted to explore the issue of testing to determine reading levels of students. A group of 624 fourth and sixth grade students from 13 schools participated in the study, which compared results from an informal reading inventory (IRI), a standardized achievement test, a group reading inventory (GRI), and a cloze test. Pupil…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories
Eberwein, Lowell D. – 1978
Teacher confusion about what reading skills to teach and how to teach them can be decreased by the use of a problem solving, questioning model for instructional decision making. The following 12 qeustions can be used as a procedure for structuring teacher observation of student performance on a daily basis. Is the skill essential to the student's…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Reading Achievement, Reading Diagnosis
Fowler, Elaine; Lamberg, Walter J. – 1977
To test the effects of prequestions and postquestions on word recognition and comprehension, two studies were conducted involving two groups of first through fifth grade students. An informal reading inventory using passages from Harper and Row's "Basic Reading Program" was administered and the results on the lowest instructional and frustrational…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Learning Processes
Georgia Association of School Superintendents. – 1964
Materials used in a one-day conference on teaching reading comprehension skills are summarized in this publication. Contents consist of three articles on teaching the comprehension skills, informal reading inventories in science and in geography, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address with comprehension questions, a checklist for the evaluation of teaching…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories
Glover, Michael – 1974
The reading test forms in this booklet are to be used primarily for determining students' reading grade level. In expanded forms, they can also serve as diagnostic tools for some reading and learning disabilities. All teachers should be able to administer these tests with relative accuracy and, when applicable, discover narrow areas which will…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Informal Reading Inventories
Kelly, Dean – 1969
A comparison was made of the effectiveness of a simulation-type inservice education program on teacher awareness of pupils' instructional reading levels in relation to the time of school year that the inservice program was conducted. Specific simulation processes, including sound films, audio tapes, overhead transparencies, and instructional…
Descriptors: Informal Reading Inventories, Inservice Teacher Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Level
Daugs, Donald Roger – 1971
There were no significant differences among the students of the three treatment groups selected from 21 fifth grade classrooms. The treatment groups included students who read at one of five levels as determined by an individual informal reading inventory, students who read at one of five levels as determined by a group informal reading inventory…
Descriptors: Achievement, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Elementary School Science
Blanton, William, Ed.; And Others – 1972
This booklet presents ideas for utilizing standardized reading tests and an informal inventory to determine the reading levels of secondary school students. Comprehensive reviews of the most commonly used standardized tests for high school students and information about their construction, standardization, administration, and use make up the bulk…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Developmental Reading, Informal Reading Inventories, Reading Instruction
Waltz, Pennie Alice – 1977
Five reflective and five impulsive fourth-grade boys were identified in a group of 56 fourth graders given the Matching Familiar Figures Test. The Reading Miscue Inventory was used to analyze the oral reading miscues of these pupils while reading a story of fifth-grade difficulty. Analysis of results indicated a trend toward significant…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo, Elementary Education, Grade 4
Johns, Jerry L., Comp.; And Others – 1977
An informal reading inventory (IRI), a nonstandardized individual test often constructed by the classroom teacher, can help teachers and clinicians in giving students appropriate reading materials and in diagnosing the strategies students use in reading. This annotated bibliography was designed to aid beginning teachers, as well as more…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Individual Testing, Informal Reading Inventories
