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Direct linkTruckenmiller, Adrea J.; Yohannan, Justina; Cho, Eunsoo – Communique, 2020
When students struggle with reading, school-based teams seek more information about why those students are struggling in order to provide instruction that will meet the students' needs. This process occurs for students needing Tier 2 or 3 instruction and students with disabilities who have reading goals. Reading specialists, special education…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Data Use, Educational Planning, Reading Difficulties
Keenan, Janice M.; Betjemann, Rebecca S.; Olson, Richard K. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2008
Comprehension tests are often used interchangeably, suggesting an implicit assumption that they are all measuring the same thing. We examine the validity of this assumption by comparing some of the most popular reading comprehension measures used in research and clinical practice in the United States: the Gray Oral Reading Test (GORT), the two…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Age, Oral Reading
Download full textThompson, Lesley D.; Dobkins, Eve, Ed. – 1999
An assessment model is presented that breaks reading down into six discrete skill areas that are both teachable and assessable. The six traits of an effective reader are: (1) decoding conventions; (2) establishing comprehension; (3) realizing content; (4) developing interpretation; (5) integrating for synthesis; and (6) critiquing for evaluation.…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Models
Peer reviewedKondziela, James M. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
A technique for measuring comprehension of lengthy prose is presented. The "textual segmentation" procedure requires subjects to partition text into complete, meaningful units such as paragraphs, chapters, and books. Potential applications of textual segmentation include measurement of reading comprehension, readability, and criteria for…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, High Schools, Prose, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedLange, Una A.; And Others – Reading Horizons, 1983
Describes the rationale for The Informal Reading-Language Test, then presents the test. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Primary Education
Smith, Edwin H.; Palmer, Barbara C. – 1979
Designed to assess the ability to interpret the major types of figurative language or tropes such as similes, metaphors, proverbs, and personification, the two forms of this instrument each contain 50 items in a two-part, multiple-choice format. Part I tests the meaning of figures of speech in isolation; part II tests the meaning in the context of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Figurative Language, Higher Education, Measures (Individuals)
Metz, Elizabeth – 1989
Intended to help adult education teachers and administrators select the type of adult literacy program that works best for their students, this digest surveys nine different programs and discusses the assessment methods used for each program. The programs examined are: (1) Time to Read; (2) Center for Literacy program; (3) Federal Prison System…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
Peer reviewedStewart, Oran; Green, Dan S. – Reading Teacher, 1983
Discusses test-taking skills and their application to tests of reading achievement. Presents a rationale for teaching these skills, lists a comprehensive set of skills relevant to standardized reading tests, and offers suggestions for teaching the skills and helping children use them. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Reading Tests
Peer reviewedFrench, Martha – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1996
Describes a program to assess the reading skills of deaf elementary school students, focusing on four concerns: areas and abilities to be assessed, sources of information, record keeping, and use of evaluation information to guide instruction. The assessment materials are available free of charge in exchange for feedback about their usefulness.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Young, Petey – 1980
Designed to be used along with a multiple-choice instrument for further assessment of the immediate and delayed comprehension of a 1,300 word expository passage on the Kalahari Desert, the instrument is a 35-item posttest, divided into five clusters, each composed of six to eight lettered phrases. Twenty verbatim phrases from the passage are…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Measures (Individuals)
Johnson, Marjorie Seddon; And Others – 1987
Representing a comprehensive description of the use of informal reading inventories (IRIs), this book is designed to provide teachers and reading specialists with practical strategies for forming diagnostic impressions that are useful for planning reading instruction. Respectively, chapters discuss (1) the purpose and nature of IRIs; (2)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Reading Achievement
Pedersen, Elray L. – 1980
Designed to assess a reader's achievement in various reading skills for the purpose of instructional placement, the instrument contains three forms (A, B, C), each of which contains 50 items. The items test comprehension of idioms and direct statements, with emphasis on drawing inferences. Administration time for each test is 25 minutes. (This…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Idioms, Measures (Individuals)
McNair, Shirley; Bischoff, Velma – Teacher, 1976
Can a classroom teacher find happiness with a remedial reading specialist in a coordinated curriculum? (Editor)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Educational Problems, Reading Instruction
Rye, James – 1982
By examining the full range of uses of the cloze procedure, this book intends to help teachers use the procedure to better understand the reading behavior of their students and to assist their students in making reading progress. Chapter 1 defines the cloze procedure and discusses the similarities and differences in reading processes when using…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Readability
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 2001
This publication contains released test items for grade 4 reading from the 2001 Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL). It is designed to assist teachers and administrators in the analysis of specific test items in order to identify patterns, trends, weaknesses, and strengths of student performance on the Essential Academic Learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Guides, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
