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Peer reviewedGoodman, Yetta M. – Reading Teacher, 1972
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Research
Peer reviewedWinkeljohann, Rosemary – Reading Teacher, 1975
Reviews the literature available in the ERIC system describing the Anchor Test Study by the Office of Education. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Literature Reviews, Reading Research, Reading Tests
Peer reviewedEkwall, Eldon E. – Reading Teacher, 1974
According to this study using both physiological and word recognition error criteria to ascertain students' reading frustration level, repetitions should be counted as errors to obtain authentic reading level scores on informal reading inventories. (TO)
Descriptors: Informal Reading Inventories, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Research, Reading Tests
Peer reviewedRubeck, Patricia A. – Reading Teacher, 1975
Concludes that the extra attention paid to children during the administration of reading tests does not have a significant effect on test performance and that the Hawthorne effect does not influence reading test results. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement, Reading Research
Peer reviewedBalyeat, Ralph; Norman, Douglas – Reading Teacher, 1975
Research indicates that a special version of the cloze procedure is a reliable test of reading comprehension. (RB)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
Peer reviewedRedelheim, Paul S. – Reading Teacher, 1976
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Multidimensional Scaling, Reading Research, Reading Tests
Peer reviewedNewcomer, Phyllis L.; Hammill, Donald D. – Reading Teacher, 1975
A survey of the results of studies of the "Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities" finds the test of limited predictive value. (RB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Literature Reviews, Predictive Measurement
Peer reviewedMosenthal, Peter B. – Reading Teacher, 1987
Demonstrates how a universal taxonomy of reading goals might be related to a taxonomy of reading means. (FL)
Descriptors: Classification, Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
Peer reviewedDuffelmeyer, Frederick A.; Black, Jeffrey L. – Reading Teacher, 1996
Reports on a study testing the validity of the Names Test, an individually administered phonics assessment. Provides support for the Names Test's validity by showing it to be significantly correlated with established tests of word recognition and decoding ability. (SR)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Phonics, Reading Research
Peer reviewedAllington, Richard L.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1977
Concludes that the four reading comprehension tests examined in this study tend to measure general knowledge rather than comprehension skills. (Author/RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Oral Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
Peer reviewedDuffelmeyer, Frederick A.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1994
Describes a revision of the Names Test, an easy-to-administer phonics assessment. Describes what was done to increase the test's category reliability, to further examine the test's validity, and to enhance its usability. (SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Research
Peer reviewedKingston, Albert J.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1975
Concludes that the "Inventory of Teacher Knowledge of Reading" is valid in discriminating between the specialist and non-specialist in reading, but that it fails to verify the seven components that the authors claim to measure. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Measurement Instruments, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
Peer reviewedGroff, Patrick – Reading Teacher, 1975
Finds that auditory discrimination as most tests measure it has little to do with how well children learn to read. (RB)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Elementary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedDavis, John E. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Critical Reading, Intermediate Grades, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedKibby, Michael W. – Reading Teacher, 1979
Concludes that teachers should use less difficult reading material when administering oral reading tests for a true picture of a child's syntactic and contextual strategies. (MKM)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Education, Miscue Analysis, Oral Reading
