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Nese, Joseph F. T.; Alonzo, Julie; Biancarosa, Gina; Kamata, Akihito; Kahn, Joshua – Grantee Submission, 2017
Text complexity has received increased attention due to the CCSS, which call for students to comprehend increasingly more complex texts as they progress through grades. Quantitative text complexity (or readability) indices are based on text attributes (e.g., sentence lengths, and lexical, syntactic, & semantic difficulty), quantified by…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Readability, Sentence Structure
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Nese, Joseph F. T.; Alonzo, Julie; Kamata, Akihito – Grantee Submission, 2016
The purpose of this study was to compare traditional oral reading fluency (ORF) measures to a computerized oral reading evaluation (CORE) system that uses speech recognition software. We applied a mixed model approach with two within-subject variables to test the mean WCPM score differences and the error rates between: passage length (25, 50, 85,…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Tests
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Nese, Joseph F. T.; Kamata, Akihito; Alonzo, Julie – Grantee Submission, 2015
Assessing reading fluency is critical because it functions as an indicator of comprehension and overall reading achievement. Although theory and research demonstrate the importance of ORF proficiency, traditional ORF assessment practices are lacking as sensitive measures of progress for educators to make instructional decisions. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Accuracy, Reading Rate