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Yearby, Mary Elizabeth – 1975
The problem under investigation was to determine the differential effects of three types of treatment on students' test-taking skills. The study also investigated whether test-taking instruction would result in significant mean test score gains on a standardized reading test for white and black, high and low socioeconomic status (SES) third-grade…
Descriptors: Black Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 3, Predictor Variables
Deck, Dennis Dorian – 1975
Word-deletion items to be used as measures of comprehension were constructed by deleting a content word from an ambiguous target sentence constrained by an accompanying context sentence. One hundred twenty, third-grade students and 120 sixth-grade students each completed all of the items as one of three degrees of contextual constraint. Analysis…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
Warshavsky, Belle – 1975
The concurrent validity of the third grade, New York State Pupil Evaluation Reading Program (PEP) reading test was examined with the following standardized tests: the Durrell Silent Reading Test, the Gilmore Oral Reading Test, the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT), the Verbal IQ of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), and the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cloze Procedure, Elementary School Students, Grade 3