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Direct linkBarnes, Marcia A.; Ahmed, Yusra; Barth, Amy; Francis, David J. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2015
The integration of knowledge during reading was tested in 1,109 secondary school students. Reading times for the second sentence in a pair (Jane's headache went away) were compared in conditions where the first sentence was either causally or temporally related to the first sentence (Jane took an aspirin vs. Jane looked for an aspirin).…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Grade 7, Grade 8
Reed, Deborah Kay – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This measurement study examined the construct validity of the retell component of the Texas Middle School Fluency Assessment (Texas Education Agency, University of Houston, & The University of Texas System, 2008a) within a confirmatory factor analysis framework. The role of retell, provided after a one-minute oral reading fluency measure, was…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Construct Validity, Interrater Reliability, Identification
Holleman, I. Thomas, Jr. – 1976
The study investigated whether significant differences resulted from a bilingual-bicultural reading program as compared to the results of a traditional monolingual reading program. During the third spring semester of a four year bilingual project, 86 third, 84 fifth, and 96 eighth grade bilingual Mexican American students from the same South Texas…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Comparative Analysis
Download full textEducation Trust, Washington, DC. – 2003
This report compares Texas's reading and mathematics performance on the most recent administrations of the state assessment with performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). To indicate how Texas is doing in narrowing the academic achievement gap between African American and Latino students and their white, middle class…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Asian American Students, Black Students
