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"I Skim and Find the Answers": Addressing Search-and-Destroy in Reading
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Huddleston, Andrew P.; Lowe, Tara N. – Reading Teacher, 2014
The authors present findings from a data-driven account in which they followed ten fifth-grade students receiving intervention in reading through Georgia's test-based grade retention policy. Under the policy, the students had little confidence in themselves as readers and felt that reading test passages was unnecessary and difficult. Consequently,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Learner Engagement
Georgia Criterion-Referenced Tests Objectives and Assessment Characteristics for Sixth Grade Mathematics and Reading Tests (Second Edition).
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Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. Office of Planning and Development. – 1984
Examples are given of criterion-referenced test items in mathematics and reading used at the sixth grade level in Georgia. Three skill areas are identified for mathematics: concept identification, component operations, and problem solving. Tests measure students' ability to: (1) recognize whole numbers, fractions, and decimals; (2) identify…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Grade 6
A Celebration of FLES: Sequential FLES, FLEX, and Immersion.
Lipton, Gladys C., Ed. – 1998
A collection of essays on FLES (foreign languages in the elementary school) includes: "Public Education in America and the Implications of Foreign Language and Second Language Acquisition" (Peter Negroni); "The People Factor in the Glastonbury Public Schools" (Christine Brown); "Public Relations: Inside and Outside"…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, FLES