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"Success for All" ("SFA"®) is a whole-school reform model (that is, a model that integrates curriculum, school culture, family, and community supports) for students in prekindergarten through grade 8. "SFA"® includes a literacy program, quarterly assessments of student learning, a social-emotional development program,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Literacy Education, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Bowman, Harry L.; And Others – 1986
A study was conducted to investigate the reading comprehension and educationally related characteristics and relationships that describe the Navy's recruit population. The variable of primary interest was the recruit's reading comprehension grade level score; other variables were years of education, aptitude score, high school graduation status,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Data Analysis, Military Personnel, Reading Comprehension
Bowman, Harry L.; Webb, Emily J. – 1987
A study was conducted to investigate the reading comprehension and educationally related characteristics and relationships that describe the Navy's recruit population. The variable of primary interest was the recruit's reading comprehension grade level score; other variables were years of education, aptitude score, high school graduation status,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Data Analysis, Military Personnel, Reading Comprehension
Bowman, Harry L; And Others – 1989
A study investigated the reading comprehension and educationally related characteristics of the United States Navy's recruit population based on data for selected variables. The variable of primary interest was the recruit's grade level score on reading comprehension; other variable employed in the study were grade level score, years of education,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Data Analysis, Military Personnel, Profiles
Bowman, Harry L.; And Others – 1988
A study was conducted to investigate the reading comprehension and educationally related characteristics and relationships that describe the Navy's recruit population. The variable of primary interest was the recruit's reading comprehension grade level score; other variables were years of education, aptitude score, high school graduation status,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Data Analysis, Military Personnel, Profiles
Medley, Vickie; Jones, Paul L. – 1988
Project Literacy United States (PLUS) is a national service project initiated in December 1985 with the key goals of mobilizing and organizing community resources to deal with illiteracy on a local level and to raise awareness of the widespread illiteracy problem. Using concepts from the Navy's intensive reading immersion program, Memphis-Project…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Skills, High Risk Students, Literacy
Brown, Cheryl J.; Kincaid, J. Peter – 1982
This study was conducted to establish Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) cutoff scores for the assignment of the appropriate level of the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests to individual Navy recruits. The Word Knowledge (WK) and Paragraph Comprehension (PC) scores were combined to provide a composite score useful as a predictor of an…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Basic Skills, Military Training
Clarke, S. C. T.; And Others – 1978
As a companion project to the Edmonton Grade III Achievement: 1956-1977 Comparisons, this study had two purposes: to establish benchmarks of basic skills achievement and to compare the achievement of various subgroups. Third grade students in Alberta were administered the Gates MacGinitie Reading Tests--Vocabulary and Comprehension, and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Age, Arithmetic
Clarke, S. C. T.; And Others – 1977
To compare achievement standards of 1977 with those of 1956, three tests were administered in their original form to all third graders in a large school district. Approximately 3500 students in 1956 and 4500 in 1977 were administered the California Achievement Tests, the California Short Form Tests of Mental Maturity, and the Gates Advanced…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Arithmetic
Taylor, Maurice C. – 1990
Following a discussion of the basic skills required for an adaptable work force and how employers and workplace literacy providers determine which employees require basic skills training, this paper reviews three literacy instruments that can be used in workplace basic skills programs. A basic skills profile is drawn based on a review of the…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Educational Needs, Employment Practices
