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An Exploration of Comprehension Instruction in Content-Area Elementary Classes
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King, Lashae Denise – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Scores on national and international tests for students in the United States indicated that students are not performing proficiently in reading. Furthermore, students are not able to comprehend complex reading tasks, which resulted in an adolescent literacy crisis (NGA & CCSO, 2010). In this collective case study, I explored ways four fifth…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Reading Instruction, Content Area Reading
Meeting the Needs of Struggling Readers: Using Reading Assessments in a Graduate-Level Reading Course
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Oslick, Mary Ellen; Lane, Hannah – Action in Teacher Education, 2014
The purpose of this research is to share the reading assessments that graduate students selected for their clinical practice with struggling readers. After a careful look at assessments, their place in the recent shift to Response to Intervention (RTI), specifically regarding reading instruction and the preparation of reading…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction, Reading Improvement
The Contribution of Selected Variables to the Diagnoses of Problem Readers by a Reading Specialist in the Areas of Phonics and Comprehension.
Bozman, Maurice Wilson – 1972
The purpose of this study was to assess the extent of the relationship between test data of problem readers diagnosed in a reading center and the kinds of recommendations made by a reading specialist at the center in the areas of phonics and comprehension. A second dimension was to assess the agreement of the diagnoses in the areas of phonics and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Centers
[College Reading Skills].
Pinette, Clayton, Ed.; Smith, Kent, Ed. – Forum for Reading, 1979
Issued twice yearly, this journal focuses on materials of interest to teachers of reading at the college level. The five articles in this issue deal with the following topics: basic skills instruction, judging the success of college reading programs, the effect of copying or paraphrasing structurally-cued topic sentences on passage comprehension,…
Descriptors: College Programs, College Students, Higher Education, Program Evaluation
Forum for Reading: The Journal for College Reading Improvement. Volume 11, No. 1.
Pinette, Clayton, Ed.; Smith, Kent, Ed. – Forum for Reading: The Journal for College Reading Improvement, 1979
Five essays for reading instructors at two-year colleges are provided in this issue of "Forum for Reading." First, Kent Smith notes the increased recruitment of underprepared students and argues that colleges are responsible for assuring that admissions personnel, administrators, and faculty know the types of students they can and cannot…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, High Risk Students, Open Enrollment, Program Effectiveness
Why American Students Do Not Learn to Read Very Well: The Unintended Consequences of Title II and Teacher Testing
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Stotsky, Sandra – Third Education Group Review, 2006
The 1998 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act requires states to report annually to the U.S. Department of Education the number of prospective teachers at each of their teacher training institutions who pass the state's tests for licensure. However, the law left decisions on what licensure tests to require, what to assess on them, and their…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Test Items, Reading Consultants, Teacher Competency Testing