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Download full textVaden-Kiernan, Michael; Caverly, Sarah; Bell, Nance; Sullivan, Kate; Fong, Carlton; Atwood, Erin; Borman, Geoffrey; Park, So Jung; Jones, Debra Hughes – SEDL, 2012
The Louisiana Striving Readers evaluation assessed the implementation and effectiveness of the Voyager "Passport Reading Journeys" (PRJ), a widely used supplemental literacy intervention for struggling adolescent readers that reflects the research-based practices recommended by the National Reading Panel (2000) and other more recent…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation, Fidelity, Grade 6
Perkins, Kyle; Duncan, Ann – 1989
To determine whether mastery of one reading comprehension task is a prerequisite to mastery of two or more reading comprehension tasks, a study examined the prerequisite relations existing in the item responses elicited from a sample of sixth grade students who took the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, Form G, Level 12 reading comprehension test. Test…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Prerequisites, Prior Learning
Peer reviewedWakefield, James A., Jr. – Journal of Educational Research, 1975
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives, Educational Testing, Grade 6
Perkins, Kyle; Duncan, Ann – 1987
An assessment analysis was performed to determine whether sets of items designed to measure three different subskills of reading comprehension of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBSs) did, in fact, distinguish among these subskills. The three major skills objectives were: (1) facts; (2) generalizations; and (3) inferences. Data from…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Elementary School Students, Functional Reading, Generalization
Grabe, Mark; Dosmann, Mark – Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, 1988
Considers the instructional potential of computer adventure games to develop text-processing skills. Design improvements to increase metacognitive skills are discussed, a prototype adventure game utilizing intact prose is described, and a study using the game with sixth-grade readers of varying ability is reported. (LRW)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Analysis of Variance, Computer Games, Connected Discourse
