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| Carroll, John B. | 3 |
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Carroll, John B. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1988
Refutes Leslie MacLean and Harvey Goldstein's charges (in the January 1988 "Kappan") that the National Assessment of Educational Progress Reading Proficiency Scale is based on a single assumption (reading proficiency) accounting for responses to all reading tasks. Characterizes the scale as developmental, with points corresponding to…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Skills, Reading Tests
Carroll, John B. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1987
Evaluates "The Reading Report Card" and application of Reading Proficiency Scale to that report with 1984-85 data on reading ability in adults between ages 21 and 25. Also discusses reading trends in relation to different segments of population and in terms of where decreases and increases in reading ability have occurred between 1974…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Adult Literacy, Data Analysis, Disadvantaged
Carroll, John B. – 1986
Two major issues are addressed in this commentary on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessment: the design of the reading proficiency scale and interpretation of test data; and the dimensionality of this scale and the possibility of supplying data on specific skill dimensions. An examination of NAEP data and the…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Equated Scores, National Surveys
