This 30-item annotated bibliography of documents concerning reading assessment in elementary education from the ERIC database, dating from 1983 to 1988, includes documents which give an overview of recent developments in reading assessment, presents standardized tests and alternative measures (including Informal Reading Inventories), and deals…

Agrues that the Reading Miscue Inventory (RMI) concepts are useful for analyzing oral reading errors made within the boundary set by Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) concepts.

Informal inventories offer an alternative to discredited standardized tests of reading achievement. (JH)

An informal learning modality inventory can give the teacher valuable information for purposes of diagnosis and planning. (JH)

The benefits accruing from a carefully administered Informal Reading Inventory make administering them well worth the time. (JH)

This paper provides information on black English to be used by teachers as they score errors and miscues on the oral part of informal reading inventories. The information is presented in order for teachers to understand items spoken in black English that are equivalents to standard English and that when spoken would indicate understanding of the…

Two groups of teachers testing with two different informal reading inventories were asked to give explanations for the miscomprehensions of two of their students (selected because of difficulty with comprehension unrelated to word recognition). Teacher explanations reflected diversity in description with the reader's lack of knowledge of key…

The purposes of this study were to determine if cloze tests would yield reading instruction levels identical to those obtained with an Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) and if there would be discrepancies in the reading levels yielded by the two instruments for subjects from a lower socioeconomic level. The investigator, with the assistance of one…

The Basic Reading Inventory, one method of evaluating reading performance and developing reading strategy, is an individually administered, informal reading test composed of a series of word lists and graded paragraphs which the child reads aloud to the teacher. Comprehension questions follow the reading of each paragraph. This manual explains the…

An evaluation of the reading laboratory clinic at the Sulzberger Junior High School, Philadelphia, is reported. On the basis of a group informal reading inventory (IRI) 120 from a total of 467 grade-7 students were assigned to the clinic. Pupils who scored below third-grade second-semester book level were considered eligible for the clinic…

Many problems can be alleviated through building-wide coordination of the schedule for teaching reading. Further, such coordination can balance the load and responsibility between regular classroom teachers and other specialists and can improve the quality of reading instruction for most children. Scheduling can be accomplished as follows: step…

An experiment was conducted in which a computer-simulated "workshop" was used in teaching Information Reading Inventory (IRI) techniques to college students. The computer simulated an instructor who guided students through constructing an IRI and a pupil to be tested with IRI. (JY)

Presents a study which examines elementary school students' performance on the JAT (Joels, Anderson, and Thompson) Reading Inventory, noting variable student performance on the different question types. Reports that the validity of the JAT as a diagnostic instrument is established. (ARH)

Reports on what started out to be a survey of the use of the informal reading inventory (IRI) by teachers that revealed the technique to be embedded in a complex environment. Concludes that the use of IRIs and other diagnostic methods can be limited when teachers do not have primary responsibility for making placement decisions. (FL)

Examines the interclass and intraclass reliability of three published informal reading inventories and their alternate forms and concludes that though acceptable, the reliabilities of the inventories suggest the need for cautious interpretation. (HOD)