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Wangsgard, Nichole – Reading Improvement, 2019
Current reading assessments put emphasis in the five components of reading competency, neglecting the self-efficacy needs of students. When students struggle with one of or all five components of reading competency, they could have negative feelings about themselves as a reader. This article offers teachers and effective user friendly assessment…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Self Concept, Reading Skills, Reading Difficulties
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Pyrczak, Fred; Rasmussen, Marilyn – Reading Improvement, 1974
Indicates that standardized reading tests vary widely in terms of the number of skills measured and in terms of the relative emphasis on each skill in studies done at the high school level. (RB)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, High Schools, Reading Improvement, Reading Research
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McNinch, George; Carmichael, Mary Ann – Reading Improvement, 1973
Suggests that informal word analysis inventories be used to determine a pupil's skill mastery level and, because of the flexibility of informal tests, that they are perhaps superior to standardized measures. (TO)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Evaluation Methods, Informal Reading Inventories, Reading Skills