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Download full textGarlikov, Patricia M. – 1987
By exploring the kindergarten program found in two public elementary schools in a middle-class neighborhood in central Alabama, a study examined age at school entry as a critical factor in achievement in Alabama kindergartens. The sample consisted of 100 kindergarten students (53 boys/47 girls; 96 white/4 black)--77 were 63 months or older, and 23…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Kindergarten, Primary Education
Elijah, David V., Jr. – 1976
The purpose of this study was: (1) to determine to what extent teacher rankings of reading readiness compare with reading readiness test results, (2) to determine to what extent teacher rankings of reading readiness compare with pupil socioeconomic status, and (3) to determine to what extent readiness test results compare with pupil socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 1, Reading Readiness, Reading Readiness Tests
Anderson, Carolyn C.; Koenke, Karl – 1980
A study was undertaken to create and validate a diagnostic, task-based Informal Reading Readiness Inventory (IRRI). IRRI subtests were created to reflect four areas found to be important in reading readiness: awareness of self and media, language experience, reasoning, and phonics. Prereading curriculum components formed the basis for test item…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Informal Reading Inventories, Predictive Measurement, Primary Education
DeMao, Vicki Arnolt – 1976
Many young children are being placed in a formal reading program before they are cognitively ready. Jean Piaget's developmental theory challenges educators to begin viewing learning and cognitive development from the child's point of view. Interpreters of Piaget's theory have addressed themselves to the teaching of math and science concepts, but…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Physical Environment, Primary Education, Reading Comprehension
Kaufman, Maurice; Lynch, Mervin – 1979
A study was undertaken to identify the factor structure of a battery of readiness measures and to demonstrate the concurrent and predictive validity of one instrument in that battery--the Pre-Reading Screening Procedures (PSP). Concurrent validity was determined by examining the correlation of the PSP with the Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT),…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Factor Structure, Predictive Validity, Primary Education
Ryan, Ellen Bouchard; Ledger, George – 1981
The extent to which individual differences in pictograph recall performance are related to reading readiness and other aspects of language and cognitive development is examined in this paper. In each of three studies kindergarten children were taught names and toy enactions for approximately 30 pictographs. The kindergarteners were then…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Decoding (Reading), Kindergarten Children, Language Acquisition
Taylor, Nancy E.; Blum, Irene H. – 1981
A battery of four reading readiness assessment tasks was administered to 267 first grade students to determine if the tasks predicted reading achievement as well as the Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT). The four tasks, which were the best predictors in a previous study of seven readiness tasks, were the aural word boundaries task, the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Predictive Measurement, Predictive Validity
Donovan, Margaret A. – 1976
This review of the literature on kindergarten assessment and its relationship to primary reading achievement is divided into the the following sections: (1) studies which support early assessment; (2) studies which suggest the use of a battery over a single readiness test; (3) studies which utilize assessment data for treatment purposes; (4)…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Diagnostic Tests, Kindergarten Children, Literature Reviews
Greenlaw, M. Jean; Moore, David – 1978
A review of literature by reading authorities identified seven criteria necessary for meaningful research about reading readiness tests. These criteria were then used in analysis of 15 research studies dealing with the "Metropolitan Readiness Test" and first grade reading achievement. Five major findings resulted from this analysis:…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Evaluation Criteria, Individualized Instruction, Literature Reviews
Adams, B. Barbara; Ollila, Lloyd O. – 1977
Designed to explore new reading readiness predictors that are not found extensively in the more commonly used commercial group tests and to develop new indices to measure the level of reading readiness of beginning first graders, a study was undertaken involving 115 children. The factor of sex in reading readiness was also investigated. An…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Language Acquisition
Scheuneman, Janice; Mitchell, Blythe C. – 1979
Data collected during the standardization of the 1976 Metropolitan Readiness Tests (MRT) were examined to provide information on sex differences in prereading skills. The MRT are designed for administration either at the beginning of kindergarten or between kindergarten and first grade. Performance on the six subtests and the total test on both…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Females, Grade 1, Individual Differences
Doyle, Mary Anne – 1987
A study examined the relationship between reading instruction method, sex of learner, word learning proficiency and reading achievement in the first grade. Subjects were 78 males and 88 females chosen from two white, middle class suburban schools, one having a sight vocabulary instruction program, the other a phonic basal program. Students were…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Assessment, Grade 1, Phonics
Nurss, Joanne R. – 1977
Prereading assessment was first used to predict school readiness and was an assessment of the child's visual and oral vocabulary skills. By the 1970s, readiness assessment had changed from assessment of a child's developmental probability for success or failure in reading to an assessment of the child's skill development in relation to the reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Decoding (Reading), Learning Processes
Lang, W. Steve; Chew, Alex L.; Crownover, Carol; Wilkerson, Judy R. – Online Submission, 2007
Determining the cross-cultural equivalence of multilingual tests is a challenge that is more complex than simple horizontal equating of test forms. This study examines the functioning of a trilingual test of preschool readiness to determine the equivalence. Different forms of the test have previously been examined using classical statistical…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Reading Readiness Tests, Item Analysis, Item Response Theory
Speer, James Ramsey; And Others – 1983
The purpose of the two studies reported was to investigate why young children, especially kindergarteners, so often treat vague, ambiguous, or otherwise unclear instructions as though they were perfectly informative, instead of asking what they mean. It was hypothesized that when faced with vague instructions children might employ two ordered…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Communication Strategies, Comprehension
