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Peer reviewedFuchs, Lynn S.; Deno, Stanley L. – Exceptional Children, 1992
This study assessed the effects of curriculum on technical features (criterion validity and developmental growth rates) within curriculum-based measurement in reading with 91 elementary level handicapped and nonhandicapped students. Correlations between oral reading samples and reading comprehension as well as developmental growth rates were…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Child Development, Curriculum, Difficulty Level
Download full textTindal, Gerald; And Others – 1983
The purposes of this study were to examine the reliability and validity of a basal reading series mastery test, and to explore the appropriateness and usefulness of two strategies for investigating the reliability and validity of criterion-referenced tests. Subjects were 47 sixth graders, who were tested on the SRA Reading Achievement Test, the…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Criterion Referenced Tests, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Fuchs, Lynn; And Others – 1983
The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of a basal reading series mastery test. Subjects were 47 fifth graders, who were tested on the SRA Reading Achievement Test, the Ginn 720 End-of-level 11 Mastery Test (MT), and the Word Reading Test. A subgroup of 22 children was tested a second time on the MT. Traditional…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Criterion Referenced Tests, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Tindal, Gerald; And Others – 1983
The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of a basal reading series mastery test. Subjects were 25 fourth graders, who were tested once on the SRA Reading Achievement Test, twice on the Scott-Foresman End-of-Book 9 Criterion-referenced Test (CRT), and once on the Word Reading Test. Traditional psychometric correlational…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Criterion Referenced Tests, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Fuchs, Lynn S.; And Others – 1983
The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of a basal reading series mastery test. Subjects were 21 fourth graders, who were tested once on the SRA Reading Achievement Test, twice on the Holt Basic Reading Series Management Program Level 13 Test (MPLT), and once on the Word Reading Test. Traditional psychometric…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Criterion Referenced Tests, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedHintze, John M.; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1994
Evaluation of literature-based and traditional basal reading series for sensitivity of repeated curriculum-based measurement with 48 third-grade students found that passage probes from the literature-based series were less sensitive to indexing growth over time than were passage probes from the traditional basal series. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Childrens Literature, Curriculum Based Assessment, Elementary Education
Tindal, Gerald; And Others – Diagnostique, 1992
This study examined the construct validity of curriculum-based measures of oral reading fluency from basal reading programs. Twelve special education students (grades 2-5) were monitored for oral fluency using 2 reading curricula (their instructional curriculum and the mainstream reading curriculum) throughout the academic year. Performance…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basal Reading, Construct Validity, Curriculum
