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Understanding How Language-Specific and Domain-General Resources Support Comprehension
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Ryan D. Kopatich; Joseph P. Magliano; Keith K. Millis; Christopher P. Parker; Melissa Ray – Grantee Submission, 2019
A large body of work has demonstrated that reader resources influence inference processes and comprehension, but few models of comprehension have accounted for such resources. The Direct and Mediational Inference model of comprehension (DIME) assumes that general inference processes mediate the effects of reader resources on general comprehension…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Models, College Students
Understanding How Language-Specific and Domain-General Resources Support Comprehension
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Ryan D. Kopatich; Joseph P. Magliano; Keith K. Millis; Christopher P. Parker; Melissa Ray – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
A large body of work has demonstrated that reader resources influence inference processes and comprehension, but few models of comprehension have accounted for such resources. The Direct and Mediational Inference model of comprehension (DIME) assumes that general inference processes mediate the effects of reader resources on general comprehension…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Intelligence Tests, Inferences, Reading Comprehension
Merit-Pay Model Pushed by Duncan Shows No Achievement Edge
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Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2010
The author reports the results of a study on the effectiveness of the Teacher Advancement Program in Chicago that contains performance-pay model pushed by the U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. The study by Mathematica Policy Research finds that student test scores were no better for schools following the national Teacher Advancement Program…
Descriptors: Teacher Promotion, Teacher Persistence, Reading Tests, Academic Achievement
Diagnostic Value Resulting from the IRT Modeling of IGAP Reading Data: Using A Graded Response Model To Retrieve and Utilize More Information.
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Evans, John Andrew; Ackerman, Terry – 1994
The strengths of item-response theory (IRT) are used to examine the degree of information individual test items provide, as well as to investigate how the individual item types contribute to the overall measurement accuracy of the Illinois Goal Assessment Program (IGAP) reading test. Using the graded-response model of Samejima (1969), the amount…
Descriptors: Ability, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students