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Peer reviewedStrang, Harold R.; Wolf, Montrose M. – Child Study Journal, 1971
To improve reading skills, an automated tutorial program with immediate feedback and a token rewards incentive system, was given to a sixth grade class of culturally disadvantaged retarded readers. Significant improvement in reading skills was shown after a 4-month program period. (MK)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Automation, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 6
Bianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students, Equated Scores, Grade 4
Download full textSlaughter, Helen B.; Gallas, Edwin J. – 1978
Concern was expressed for the possible effects of testing Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I students with norm-referenced tests that may be so difficult that many students will have scores in the chance range. The likelihood of such students obtaining equal scaled scores if they were tested with easier out-of-level tests was…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Disadvantaged Youth, Equated Scores
