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Shahar Dotan; Tami Katzir – Journal of Research in Reading, 2024
Background: "Screen inferiority" refers to a well-established phenomenon observed among adults and teenagers, wherein they demonstrate higher reading comprehension when reading from paper compared to screens. However, there is limited research focusing on readers in the initial stages of reading development. The current study aims to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 3, Hebrew
Sebastian Kiguel; Sarah Cashdollar; Meg Bates – Illinois Workforce and Education Research Collaborative, Discovery Partners Institute, 2024
In this report, we perform an analysis of kindergarten readiness in Illinois and relate it to students' third grade academic achievement. We study two cohorts of Illinois kindergarteners and follow them into third grade using data provided by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE). We summarize our key findings below: (1) Disparities appear…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Early Childhood Education, Test Bias, Culture Fair Tests
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Hoadley, Ursula; Muller, Johan – Curriculum Journal, 2016
Why has large-scale standardised testing attracted such a bad press? Why has pedagogic benefit to be derived from test results been downplayed? The paper investigates this question by first surveying the pros and cons of testing in the literature, and goes on to examine educators' responses to standardised, large-scale tests in a sample of low…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Developing Nations, Visual Discrimination