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Direct linkIsakson, Richard L.; Isakson, Marné B.; Plummer, Kenneth J.; Chapman, Sara B. – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2016
The literature reveals that no adequate instrument exists to measure college students' attitudes toward academic reading even though such attitudes are crucial for reading compliance and learning from text. To remedy this, the authors created and refined an attitude survey, administering it to 855 university students across four iterations. The…
Descriptors: Surveys, Reading Attitudes, Higher Education, College Students
Griffin, Merilee; Falberg, Amy; Krygier, Gigi – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
The 2006 Spellings Commission report, "A Test of Leadership," stated that substandard high school preparation is compounded by poor alignment between high schools and colleges, which often creates an "expectations gap" between what colleges require and what high schools produce. This gap results in an annual expenditure of roughly one billion…
Descriptors: High Schools, Writing Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, At Risk Students
Kaminsky, Sally; And Others – Adult Literacy and Basic Education, 1988
Two Likert-type scales were used by 25 undergraduates to assess their reading and writing; assessments were compared to those of three judges. The study found a significant relationship between self-evaluation accuracy and reading and writing performance. Prior positive reinforcement did not significantly relate to reading or writing achievement.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Positive Reinforcement, Reading Achievement, Reliability
Woodcock, Richard W. – 1997
This boxed set contains a wide-range, comprehensive set of tests for measuring reading achievement and related abilities. The tests are administered individually, and norms are provided from age 4 to age 90. Special college/university norms are also provided. It consists of 10 measures. The scores from different combinations of these tests provide…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests
Manzo, Anthony V.; Casale, Ula Price – 1982
A test battery termed "Assessment of Reading and Language Maturity" (ALARM) contains 15 subtests designed to cover the major and minor elements involved in assessing and promoting progress toward reading-language-thinking and social-emotional maturity. Although still undergoing development, ALARM has been administered to and partially…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Intellectual Development, Maturity Tests
Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 13 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the preparation of eighth grade students for criterion referenced reading testing and its effect on standardized reading scores; (2) alternative cloze test…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Communication Research, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Assessment
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 20 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) reading readiness, linguistic awareness, and nonverbal problem solving ability in relation to first grade reading achievement; (2) predictive accuracy of third…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Doctoral Dissertations
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 30 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: use of short and long passages in informal reading inventories, components in decoding spelling patterns, the psycholinguistic analysis of oral reading miscues and…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, Doctoral Dissertations
