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Duran, Elva – 1980
Addressing the needs of Hispanic bilingual children with learning problems, the manual is arranged to help teach beginning students vowels and the concepts of shapes in a step-by-step manner based on Englemann's principles of direct instruction. Equivalent Spanish/English chapters are designed to teach pronunciation and identification of vowels…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Concept Teaching, Geometric Concepts, Grade 1
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1984
Contributors offer suggestions concerning parents as reading stimulators, book discussions, a test bank for the secondary school/college reading lab, standardized reading tests, television reading, plagiarism, vocabulary development, and book reports. (FL)
Descriptors: Books, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Higher Education, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1981
Readers' contributions include ways to make inservice meetings interesting, a checklist for designing and evaluating learning centers, ways to help low ability readers use public libraries by taping materials, how to encourage college students to attend state council conferences, and comments on misleading findings from the Nelson-Denny Reading…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Books, Cloze Procedure, Higher Education
Download full textOhio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. – 1996
A practice test has been prepared to give students experience with test items that are similar to those on the Ohio Ninth-grade Proficiency Tests. The practice test consists of one writing prompt, 20 reading questions, 20 mathematics questions, 25 citizenship questions, and 20 science questions. This manual contains instructions to the teacher, as…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Citizenship Education, Grade 9, Graduation Requirements
Horvath, Frank G.; Machura, Shirley – 1986
The development of the Alberta Diagnostic Reading Program (ADRP) was based on a current psycholinguistic theory that describes reading as a process in which the reader uses background information to communicate with the author. To ensure its usefulness and effectiveness, the developers of the ADRP sought the advice and direct involvement of many…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Individualized Instruction
Sacco, Steven J. – 1982
The "nuts and bolts" of test construction concern the following areas: (1) common problems in test construction, (2) successful test formats, (3) specific testing concerns in the French individualized program (IFP) at the Ohio State University, and (4) references to help the test constructor. The specific problems considered deal with whether or…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Second Language Programs, Cultural Awareness, French
Chula Vista City School District, CA. – 1977
Teachers in the Chula Vista Rosebank Title IV Project, Individual Diagnosis and Prescription for a Total School, use these test manuals and corresponding teaching guides to measure and improve reading and mathematics skills of students, kindergarten through junior high school. Parts I and III contain tests and directions for administering the…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Games
Consortium on Reading Excellence, Inc., Emeryville, CA. – 1999
This book contains a collection of formal and informal reading assessments for use with students in Grades K-8. These assessments assist the teacher in targeting areas of strength and weakness, in monitoring student reading development, and in planning appropriate instruction. The book's assessments (some in both English and Spanish) range from…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Elementary Education, Informal Assessment, Performance Based Assessment
Missouri State Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education, Jefferson City. Div. of Instruction. – 1999
This document includes the left-hand column ("What All Students Should Know") and the center column ("What All Students Should Be Able To Do") from "Missouri's Framework for Curriculum Development in Communication Arts K-12." Next to these two columns has been added a column which includes assessment notes for those…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11, Grade 3
Nelson, Carol; Smith, Carl, Comp. – 1990
Originally developed for the Department of Defense Schools (DoDDS) system, this learning package on assessing performance through informal techniques is designed for teachers who wish to upgrade or expand their teaching skills on their own. The package includes a comprehensive search of the ERIC database; a lecture giving an overview on the topic;…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1986
Intended for teachers and students, this document updates information about the design, sections, and scoring of the Grade 12 diploma examinations in English 30 and 33 for the 1986-87 school year in Alberta, Canada. It contains blueprints illustrating the relationship between the content and scoring of writing and reading test assignments and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Flood, James, Ed. – 1984
Designed to present a historical account of instructional approaches to the teaching of comprehension as well as insights into effective approaches for the present and the future, this collection of papers is divided into three parts, concerned respectively with: (1) instructional research in reading comprehension, (2) the reader and the text, and…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Literature Reviews
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation and Data Processing Branch. – 1987
A bulletin concerning Alberta's Grade 6 French language achievement test to be administered in June 1988 provides specific information about the test's design, items, and scoring. It begins with general information about the province's achievement test program in English and goes on to describe and illustrate the French language arts achievement…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Measurement, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries
Drummond, Don, Ed.; Wignell, Edna, Ed. – 1979
Offered as a guide to the teaching of reading and the development of reading skills, this publication provides information on assessment, teaching methods, and published resource materials and is directed to elementary school teachers and reading specialists. The ten chapters include information on the stages of reading, reading readiness, the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Independent Reading, Individualized Reading
Indiana Department of Education, 2005
The Informational Text Reading Inventory (ITRI) was created when the Center for Innovation in Assessment (CIA) observed that students in grade four experience a significant drop in performance in all of their subject areas. CIA researched solutions and identified the critical issue as the students' struggle to apply the reading skills they have…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Content Area Reading
