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Kayla Bates-Brantley; Mackenzie D. Sidwell; Marsha Hasenoehrl – Communique, 2025
Reading and literacy skills are essential to fostering a child's development and academic success. Research has consistently highlighted the importance of early literacy proficiency as a strong indicator of later academic achievement, cognitive ability, and social-emotional well-being (Espinosa, 2002; Gottlieb et al., 2022). Unfortunately, reading…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Literacy, Child Development, Academic Achievement
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Sana Tibi; Ashley A. Edwards; John R. Kirby; Soheil H. Salha – SAGE Open, 2024
Reading anxiety measures are newly available in English, but none is available in Arabic. The goals of the present study were to adapt the English Reading Anxiety in College Students (RACS) scale to Arabic-speaking college students (RACS-Arabic), evaluate its reliability and other psychometric properties in comparison to the English US sample, and…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Reading, Arabic, Translation
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Nikola Ebenbeck; Morten Bastian; Andreas Mühling; Markus Gebhardt – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Computerised adaptive tests (CATs) are tests that provide personalised, efficient and accurate measurement while reducing testing time, depending on the desired level of precision. Schools have different types of assessments that can benefit from a significant reduction in testing time to varying degrees, depending on the area of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Special Schools
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Lou Champagne; Dima Safi; Bruno Gauthier – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: The Alouette-R (2005) by Lefavrais is one of the most widely used tools to assess reading skills in French. However, this instrument does not have normative data specific to the French-speaking population of Quebec, Canada. Aims: The validity of an assessment being strongly compromised when using inappropriate norms, the first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, French Canadians, French
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K. M. Rosheim; K. G. Tamte; M. J. Froemming – Reading Psychology, 2024
This 2-year exploratory study of Multilingual Learner's performance on literacy assessments is grounded in Culturally Responsive Teaching. By examining the protocols for universal screeners and progress monitoring at one midwestern elementary school, teachers and researchers learned more about language vs. literacy-related results and discovered…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, Student Evaluation, Culturally Relevant Education