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Peer reviewedOlson, Mary W.; Gillis, M. K. – Reading Horizons, 1987
Suggests that informal reading inventories (IRIs) should include both narrative and expository passages. Describes a study of several reading inventories indicating that some current secondary school IRIs have been constructed with some consistency of text types, but failed to reveal a clear picture of text structure for the inventories. (HTH)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Expository Writing, Informal Assessment, Informal Reading Inventories
Download full textRakes, Thomas A.; McWilliams, Lana J. – 1978
The results from two informal measures (a cloze test and a group reading inventory and a standardized reading test were compared in a study of instruments available for measuring adult reading performance. The three instruments were administered to 158 undergraduates enrolled in reading improvement classes. From this group, 75 subjects were…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Anderson, Betty – 1986
Noting that most classroom teachers use informal reading inventories (IRI) as diagnostic instruments, a study examined what oral reading accuracy level is most appropriate for the instructional level and whether repetitions should be counted as oral reading errors. Randomly selected students from the second through fifth grades at two elementary…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Informal Assessment, Informal Reading Inventories, Oral Reading
Aiex, Nola Kortner – 1990
This digest is intended to help and inform those teachers who are contemplating using children's literature to teach reading, and provides a brief review of material in the ERIC database on literature-based reading instruction. The digest includes sections on recent research, basic resources, assessing literature based reading, diverse methods…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Informal Assessment
Garcia, Georgia Earnest – 1992
The first part of this report reviews the different types of formal assessment measures that have been used to evaluate the language and literacy performance of second-language learners of English in the United States, including language proficiency tests, reading readiness tests, standardized reading tests, basal reading tests, and statewide…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Class Activities, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Noble, Cynthia – 1982
To accumulate the data necessary for making recommendations for the improvement of middle school reading programs in Massachusetts, such programs were assessed by computer searches, informal interviews, and random questionnaires. "TRANS," Teaching Reading Acquisition Natural to Subject Areas, embodies the kind of program needed to meet…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Informal Assessment, Instructional Improvement
