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The Relationship between Preservice Teachers' Reading Ability and Their Achievement on Teacher Certification Examinations
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Ward, Martin J.; Wells, Tim J. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2006
Graduates of teacher education programs throughout the nation must pass state-mandated standardized paper-and-pencil exit tests to become certified teachers. This study examines the relationship between the reading levels of preservice teachers enrolled in a south Texas university and their scores on the Texas Examinations of Educator…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Certification, Standardized Tests
Pre-school Reading-Related Skills and Later Reading Achievement: Further Evidence.
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Blatchford, Peter; Plewis, Ian – British Educational Research Journal, 1990
Presents results from 2 British studies relating preschool reading skills and reading attainment reached by age 11. Substantiates and extends earlier research that correlated early letter identification with reading ability at age seven. Also indicates no support for hypothesis that letter sounding rather than naming predicts subsequent reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Correlation, Early Reading, Foreign Countries
Academic Achievement and Reading Ability: Hispanics, Males and Females.
Rivera, Manuel G. – 1983
To determine the relationship of reading ability to age, sex, Hispanic ethnicity, and majors in economics, political science, history, and psychology, 141 students who completed summer social science courses at a California community college were given the Nelson Denny Reading Test, which scores for vocabulary and comprehension. Of the 141…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, College Students, Community Colleges