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Download full textLieny Jeon; Nat Dewey; Xiangyu Zhao; Briana Bostic; Marc Stein – Baltimore Education Research Consortium, 2023
This report provides an overview of kindergarten readiness of six Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) kindergarten cohorts from the 2016-17 to the 2021-22 school year. This report is accompanied by the Annual Digest of City Schools Kindergarten Statistics, 2022 Edition (Baltimore Education Research Consortium [BERC], 2022), which provides…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Success, Public Schools, School Readiness
Direct linkYuan, Kun; Le, Vi-Nhuan – RAND Corporation, 2014
In 2010, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's Education Program has established the Deeper Learning Initiative, which focuses on students' development of deeper learning skills (i.e., the mastery of core academic content, critical-thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, communication, and "learn-how-to-learn" skills). Two test…
Descriptors: Test Items, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Skill Development
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
Frank, Alan R.; Gerken, Kathryn C. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1990
Three mildly retarded 11 year olds were administered reading probes for a period of 4 months, and number of words read correctly were compared to student performance on a criterion-referenced mastery test. Findings questioned whether such probes alone yield sufficient information for making program decisions during the course of instruction.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Competency Based Education, Diagnostic Teaching, Informal Reading Inventories
Peer reviewedNorton, Marian; Falk, Ian – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1992
This paper describes adult literacy pedagogy and philosophy in Australia and reports on two studies of adult reading disabilities. The first study, with 102 asthma patients, showed important differences among different tests of reading comprehension. The second study, using 11 case studies, indicated the need to integrate adult literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adults
Brozo, William G.; And Others – 1985
The comparative effects of instruction in self-questioning, summarizing, and question-answer relations on reading comprehension test performance were studied with 49 juniors and seniors enrolled in a remedial reading course at Georgia State University. The objective was to find a method to help students pass a statewide college reading exit…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Instruction, College Students, Competency Based Education
Rose, Janet S.; Gustin, William C. – 1986
This paper details the development of the high school general mathematics examination and reading comprehension tests for grades one through eight for the curriculum referenced testing program in Charleston County School District, South Carolina. While the basic developmental approach was similar, problems encountered in developing the two types…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Educational Testing
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2000
The National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) Adult Reading Components Study (ARCS) was the first large-scale attempt to describe the reading of students enrolled in adult basic education (ABE) and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) using a battery of individually administered reading and language tests.…
Descriptors: Site Selection, Language Tests, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education
Bell, Martha J., Ed.; And Others – 1983
The articles in this collection address basic questions about college reading theory, curriculum, and assessment. Major article titles and authors are as follows: (1) "Reading Achievement," by Anthony R. Petrosky; (2) "Excerpt from 'A Proposal for Reading Stages'," by Jeanne S. Chall; (3) "Finding a Sense of Wonder in Language and Literacy," by…
Descriptors: College Students, Compensatory Education, Course Content, Critical Thinking
