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Cavanagh, Sean – Education Week, 2007
Many of the states that claim to have large shares of their students reaching proficiency in reading and mathematics under the No Child Left Behind Act have set less stringent standards for meeting that threshold than lower-performing states, a new federal study finds. The study, "Mapping 2005 State Proficiency Standards Onto the NAEP…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, State Standards, National Standards
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Stringaris, Argyris K.; Medford, Nicholas C.; Giampietro, Vincent; Brammer, Michael J.; David, Anthony S. – Brain and Language, 2007
In this study, we used a novel cognitive paradigm and event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (ER-fMRI) to investigate the neural substrates involved in processing three different types of sentences. Participants read either metaphoric ("Some surgeons are butchers"), literal ("Some surgeons are fathers"), or non-meaningful sentences…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Lateral Dominance, Neuropsychology
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Fletcher, Jack M. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2006
The five articles in this special issue are a blend of experimental and correlational approaches that exemplify advances in contemporary approaches to assessment of reading comprehension. They illustrate how inferences about reading comprehension are determined in part by the material presented for comprehending and the format that is used for…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Correlation, Inferences
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Liao, Chi-Wen; Livingston, Samuel A. – ETS Research Report Series, 2008
Randomly equivalent forms (REF) of tests in listening and reading for nonnative speakers of English were created by stratified random assignment of items to forms, stratifying on item content and predicted difficulty. The study included 50 replications of the procedure for each test. Each replication generated 2 REFs. The equivalence of those 2…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Item Analysis, Test Items, Difficulty Level
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Kitmitto, Sami; Bandeira de Mello, Victor – National Center for Education Statistics, 2008
This report examines the relationship between various characteristics of students with disabilities and the probability that they would participate in the NAEP assessments, given the current methods of accommodation adopted by their state. The report describes the methodological approach which calculates for each state an expected inclusion rate…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Student Participation, Student Characteristics, National Competency Tests
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Jallad, Nasreen Y.; Bani Abdelrahman, Abdallah A. – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2008
This study aimed at investigating the effect of multiple intelligences strategies comprising logical-mathematical intelligence, verbal-linguistic intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence and interpersonal intelligence on ninth grade students' reading comprehension achievement in an EFL setting. The population of the study consisted of all ninth…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Multiple Intelligences, Reading Comprehension, Foreign Countries
Costello, Bill – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2008
According to the 2004 National Assessment of Educational Progress, males who have made it through 12 years of school have significantly poorer reading skills than their female peers. In every age group, boys have been scoring lower than girls annually for more than three decades on U.S. Department of Education reading tests. The longer boys are in…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Age Differences, Reading Tests, National Competency Tests
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Massa, Jacqueline; Gomes, Hilary; Tartter, Vivien; Wolfson, Virginia; Halperin, Jeffrey M. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2008
Background: Research has shown that early identification of children with language issues is critical for effective intervention, and yet many children are not identified until school age. The use of parent-completed rating scales, especially in urban, minority populations, might improve early identification if parent ratings are found to be…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Impairments, Reading Tests, Validity
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Lee, Okhee; Maerten-Rivera, Jaime; Penfield, Randall D.; LeRoy, Kathryn; Secada, Walter G. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2008
This study is part of a 5-year professional development intervention aimed at improving science and literacy achievement of English language learners (or ELL students) in urban elementary schools within an environment increasingly driven by high-stakes testing and accountability. Specifically, the study examined science achievement at the end of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Elementary Schools, Science Achievement, Achievement Gains
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Young, John W.; Cho, Yeonsuk; Ling, Guangming; Cline, Fred; Steinberg, Jonathan; Stone, Elizabeth – Educational Assessment, 2008
English language learners (ELLs) constitute one of the fastest growing subpopulations of students in the United States. It is important to determine whether the assessments used by states in determining students' proficiencies are valid and fair for ELLs. This study focused on several standards-based assessments in mathematics and science…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, State Standards, Word Lists, Construct Validity
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Vellutino, Frank R.; Scanlon, Donna M.; Zhang, Haiyan; Schatschneider, Christopher – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2008
Entry-level kindergartners in classrooms from five middle class school districts were given a test of letter identification and children who scored at or below the 30th percentile on the test were classified as "at risk" for early reading difficulties. Half of these children were randomly assigned to a project-based intervention condition where…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Middle Class, Intervention, Early Reading
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National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
Each state and jurisdiction that participated in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2009 reading assessment receives a one-page snapshot report that presents key findings and trends in a condensed format. Overall results, achievement level percentages and average score results, comparison of the average score in 2009 to other…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Gap, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
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National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
Each state and jurisdiction that participated in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2009 reading assessment receives a one-page snapshot report that presents key findings and trends in a condensed format. Overall results, achievement level percentages and average score results, comparison of the average score in 2009 to other…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Gap, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
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National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
Each state and jurisdiction that participated in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2009 reading assessment receives a one-page snapshot report that presents key findings and trends in a condensed format. Overall results, achievement level percentages and average score results, comparison of the average score in 2009 to other…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Gap, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
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National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
Each state and jurisdiction that participated in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2009 reading assessment receives a one-page snapshot report that presents key findings and trends in a condensed format. Overall results, achievement level percentages and average score results, comparison of the average score in 2009 to other…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Gap, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
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