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Mesmer, Heidi Anne E.; Williams, Thomas O. – Reading Psychology, 2014
This study tested a hypothesized model examining reading proficiency across first grade. It addressed how alphabetics at the beginning of the year were mediated by applied and automated skills at the middle of the year to explain actualized reading at the end of the year. The alphabetic skills of 102 first graders were measured in October and the…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Reading Fluency
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Meadows, Sara; Herrick, David; Feiler, Anthony – British Educational Research Journal, 2007
The aim of the UK National Literacy Strategy is to raise standards in literacy. Strong evidence for its success has, however, been lacking: most of the available data comes from performance on tests administered in schools or from Office for Standards in Education reports and is vulnerable to suggestions of bias. An opportunistic analysis of data…
Descriptors: Literacy, Grade Inflation, National Curriculum, Reading Ability