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Direct linkDay, Rim; Naeb, Rola – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2022
This paper draws on the findings of a qualitative study exploring the reading assessment materials and criteria used in pre-A1 ESOL classes in the UK and their suitability to low-literate language learners. Open-ended questionnaires and multifunctional analysis of materials were used to investigate current practices and views. The findings reflect…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Tests, Second Language Learning, English Language Learners
Johnson, Helen; McNally, Sandra; Rolfe, Heather; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer; Savage, Robert; Vousden, Janet; Wood, Clare – Centre for Economic Performance, 2018
Many students still leave school without a good grasp of basic literacy, despite the negative implications for future educational and labour market outcomes. We evaluate a programme that involves changing how resources are used within classrooms to reinforce the teaching of literacy. Specifically, the programme involves training teaching…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Classroom Techniques, Literacy Education, Program Evaluation
Siddiqui, Nadia; Gorard, Stephen; See, Beng Huat – Educational Research, 2018
Background: Educational interventions are often complex, and their outcomes could be due to factors not focused on in the impact evaluation. Therefore, educational evaluations using a randomised control trial (RCT) design approach need to go beyond obtaining the impact results alone. Purpose: Process evaluation is embedded in the evaluation design…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Educational Research, Disadvantaged, Reading Tests
Arnold, Sharon; Reed, Phil – British Journal of Special Education, 2016
Schools have an obligation to assess the literacy skills of their students, and the provision of reading instruction to students includes the ability to measure progress in this area. However, the design of reading tests includes the ability not only to read words, but also the ability to verbalise them. This presents a particular challenge for…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Summative Evaluation, Special Education, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Devine, Amy; Soltesz, Fruzsina; Nobes, Alison; Goswami, Usha; Szucs, Denes – Learning and Instruction, 2013
Developmental dyscalculia (DD) is a learning difficulty specific to mathematics learning. The prevalence of DD may be equivalent to that of dyslexia, posing an important challenge for effective educational provision. Nevertheless, there is no agreed definition of DD and there are controversies surrounding cutoff decisions, specificity and gender…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Learning Disabilities, Evaluation Criteria, Elementary School Students
Bloor, Andrew J. – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2009
Three classes in different primary schools in a west London borough were given four tests, two with music and two with silence, to see if the music had a measurable effect on the behaviour and attainment of the children during tests. The results were then cross-referenced with the children's self-evaluation of their own musicality to ascertain if…
Descriptors: Music, Reading Tests, Mathematics Tests, Elementary School Students
