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Peer reviewedMacGinitie, Walter H. – Reading Teacher, 1973
Examines bias in testing, especially in relation to the goals of reading. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Readability, Reading Achievement, Reading Habits
Peer reviewedPflaum, Susanna W. – Reading Teacher, 1979
Describes a new system for scoring informal reading inventories that helps eliminate problems inherent in other scoring systems. (DD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Oral Reading, Reading Diagnosis
Peer reviewedJongsma, Kathleen Stumpf – Reading Teacher, 1989
Discusses several new educational assessment procedures implemented in Illinois and Michigan school districts. (MM)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedCotter, Robert B., Jr. – Reading Teacher, 1988
Describes and evaluates the Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests--Revised (1987), discussing test administration, scoring, technical data, validity, and reliability. Concludes that this test is a reliable instrument for measuring some aspects of the reading process, but recommends its use in conjunction with more theoretically valid holistic-oriented…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Tests
Peer reviewedWinograd, Peter; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1991
Provides a rationale for why literacy assessment is in need of improvement. Presents guidelines for improving literacy assessment. Describes a model for implementing changes in literacy assessment. (MG)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs
Peer reviewedMavrogenes, Nancy A.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1976
Contains an annotated list of tests for the diagnosis of learning disabilities related to reading. (RB)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Measurement Instruments
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 reviewedChall, Jeanne S.; Curtis, Mary E. – Reading Teacher, 1987
Provides insights and procedures used in clinical approaches to reading diagnosis and suggests ways classroom teachers might use them. (FL)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Elementary Education, Reading Centers, Reading Diagnosis
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 reviewedBaumann, James F.; Stevenson, Jennifer A. – Reading Teacher, 1982
Offers a procedure that will allow classroom teachers to use standardized reading achievement test scores in order to make appropriate decisions about placing students in instructional programs. (FL)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests
Peer reviewedJongsma, Kathleen S.; Jongsma, Eugene A. – Reading Teacher, 1981
Provides a critical and comparative analysis of the major commercially produced informal reading inventories. Offers recommendations for those who are considering purchasing or using one of the inventories. (FL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Reading Instruction
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 reviewedPikulski, John J. – Reading Teacher, 1990
Discusses curtailing the misuse and misinterpretation of standardized tests, and suggests ways to improve existing tests while reviewing the Test of Early Reading Ability-2, Tests of Reading Comprehension, and Effective Reading Tests. (MG)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Literacy Education, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedKapinus, Barbara – Reading Teacher, 1994
Discusses the differing responses of two groups of administrators and teachers to a new statewide reading assessment--one group saw the ideal and one group experienced the reality. (SR)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Tests, State Programs
Direct linkHollingworth, Liz – Reading Teacher, 2007
What can teachers do in their classrooms to help students prepare for a high-stakes, standardized, multiple-choice reading test without sacrificing what they know to be best practice? Decreasing class sizes or other solutions that require substantial changes in school finance are not usually realistic options. This article outlines five…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Educational Change
