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Download full textMartin, Michael O., Ed.; Mullis, Ina V. S., Ed.; Hooper, Martin, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2017
"Methods and Procedures in PIRLS 2016" documents the development of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) assessments and questionnaires and describes the methods used in sampling, translation verification, data collection, database construction, and the construction of the achievement and context questionnaire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Grade 4, International Assessment
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Direct linkLarsen, Linda; Kohnen, Saskia; Nickels, Lyndsey; McArthur, Genevieve – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2015
Children who have difficulty learning to read are at increased risk for academic failure, poor self-esteem, anxiety and depression, and unemployment. To help reduce these risks, it is important to identify and treat weaknesses in a child's reading as early as possible. The aim of this study was to develop a valid and reliable comprehensive…
Descriptors: Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Reading Tests, Standardized Tests, Test Reliability
Asil, Mustafa; Brown, Gavin T. L. – International Journal of Testing, 2016
The use of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) across nations, cultures, and languages has been criticized. The key criticisms point to the linguistic and cultural biases potentially underlying the design of reading comprehension tests, raising doubts about the legitimacy of comparisons across economies. Our research focused…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Reading Achievement, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
Castles, Anne; Coltheart, Max; Larsen, Linda; Jones, Pip; Saunders, Steven; McArthur, Genevieve – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2009
We present administration details and normative data for a new version of the word and nonword reading test originally developed by Castles and Coltheart. The new test contains an expanded set of items, with 40 each of regular words, irregular words and nonwords, rather than the original 30 items of each type. The new items extend the upper-end of…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Test Items, Test Construction, Test Norms
Wheldall, Kevin; Madelaine, Alison – Australasian Journal of Special Education, 2006
The aim of this study was to develop a means of tracking the reading performance of low-progress readers on a weekly basis, so as to inform instructional decision-making. A representative sample of 261 primary school children from Years 1 to 5 were tested on 21 different text passages taken from a developing passage reading test, the Wheldall…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Difficulty Level
Griffin, Patrick – 1990
Results of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) battery trials in Australia are reported. The IELTS tests of productive language skills use direct assessment strategies and subjective scoring according to detailed guidelines. The receptive skills tests use indirect assessment strategies and clerical scoring procedures.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grammar, Interrater Reliability
Spearritt, D.; And Others – 1977
A battery of reading tests designed to identify the component skills involved in reading comprehension was administered to 624 sixth grade students in the metropolitan Sydney (Australia) schools. Factor analysis of the data showed that knowledge of word meanings, sentence comprehension, and semantic context are experimentally identifiable…
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
