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Valencia, Sheila W.; Smith, Antony T.; Reece, Anne M.; Li, Min; Wixson, Karen K.; Newman, Heather – Reading Research Quarterly, 2010
This study investigated multiple models for assessing oral reading fluency, including 1-minute oral reading measures that produce scores reported as words correct per minute (wcpm). We compared a measure of wcpm with measures of the individual and combined indicators of oral reading fluency (rate, accuracy, prosody, and comprehension) to examine…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Tests, Test Validity
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Burns, Edward – Reading Research Quarterly, 1982
Explains the origin and use of reading expectancy formulas and examines to what extent different formulas can actually predict reading achievement. (AEA)
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Difficulties, Reading Readiness Tests
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Tuinman, J. Jaap – Reading Research Quarterly, 1973
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Test Construction
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Farr, Roger; Tuinman, J. Jaap – Reading Research Quarterly, 1972
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Predictive Measurement, Predictor Variables, Reading Research
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Martinez, Joseph G. R.; Johnson, Peder J. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1982
Points up the importance of encoding time to the global act of reading. (AEA)
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
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Andrich, David; Godfrey, John R. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1978
Results from 188 subjects indicate that most of the items on the test conform to a Rasch latent trait model, but tend to cluster into levels consistent with a hierarchical structure of skills. (AA)
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Reading Research
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Hanna, Gerald S.; Oaster, Thomas R. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1978
Traces a major source of confusion in the literature on passage dependence and integrates the relevant concepts into a general theory of context dependence. Sample items and data illustrate practical applications of the theory. (AA)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Literature Reviews, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
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Shanahan, Timothy; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1982
Suggests limitations on the sensitivity of cloze procedures to measure the ability of college students to use information across sentence boundaries. (AEA)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
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Kretschmer, Joseph C. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1973
Discusses a study of reading comprehension of fourth grade students by an instrument constructed by the investigator and based upon Piaget's developmental construct of intelligence. (TO)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Grade 4, Intellectual Development
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Pyrczak, Fred – Reading Research Quarterly, 1972
Descriptors: Item Analysis, Multiple Choice Tests, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
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Henk, William A. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1982
Critically reviews an earlier published study that assessed the sensitivity of the cloze procedure to intersentential integration. (AEA)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Reading Tests
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Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Meisinger, Elizabeth B.; Wisenbaker, Joseph M.; Kuhn, Melanie R.; Strauss, Gregory P.; Morris, Robin D. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2006
The goals of this study were to (a) develop an empirically based model regarding the development of fluent and automatic reading in the early elementary school years and (b) determine whether fluent text-reading skills provided benefits for reading comprehension beyond those accounted for by fluent word decoding. First-, second-, and third-grade…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Reading Fluency, Elementary Education, Reading Skills
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Pryczak, Fred – Reading Research Quarterly, 1975
Descriptors: Item Analysis, Measurement Instruments, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
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Horton, Raymond Joseph – Reading Research Quarterly, 1974
Describes an International Reading Association award-winning dissertation designed to determine the construct validity of the cloze procedure on paragraph reading of science and social studies materials. (RB)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Doctoral Dissertations, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension
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Hunt, Barbara Carey – Reading Research Quarterly, 1974
Analyzes errors made by 65 innercity third and fourth graders on the "Gray Oral Reading Test." (RB)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 3, Grade 4
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