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Direct linkBiancarosa, Gina; Cummings, Kelli D. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
The primary objective of this special issue is to synthesize results from recent reading fluency research endeavors, and to link these findings to practical uses of reading curriculum-based measurement (R-CBM) tools. Taken together, the manuscripts presented in this issue discuss measurement work related to new metrics of indexing student reading…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques
O'Connor, Rollanda E.; Beach, Kristen D.; Sanchez, Victoria M.; Bocian, Kathleen M.; Flynn, Lindsay J. – Exceptional Children, 2015
We tested the effects of teaching reading skills through U.S. history content for 38 eighth-grade poor readers whose reading ability ranged from second-to fourth-grade levels. Half of the students received special education services, and half of the students were English language learners. Students were taught to decode multisyllabic words, learn…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Middle School Students, Reading Difficulties, Reading Improvement
Download full textO'Connor, Rollanda E.; Beach, Kristen D.; Sanchez, Victoria; Bocian, Kathleen M.; Flynn, Lindsay – Grantee Submission, 2015
We tested the effects of teaching reading skills through U.S. History content for 38 eighth-grade poor readers whose reading ability ranged from 2nd to 4th grade levels. Half of the students received special education services and half of the students were English Language Learners. Students were taught to decode multisyllabic words, learn…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Grade 8, Middle School Students, Reading Difficulties
National Assessment Governing Board, 2012
As the ongoing national indicator of what American students know and can do, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in Reading regularly collects achievement information on representative samples of students in grades 4, 8, and 12. Through The Nation's Report Card, the NAEP Reading Assessment reports how well students perform in…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, National Competency Tests, Reading Comprehension, Grade 4
Bowey, Judith A.; Rutherford, Jennifer – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2007
This current study introduced a new method to investigate the prevalence and correlates of significant imbalances in the relative accuracy with which eighth-graders read nonwords (e.g., "prauma") and exception words (e.g., "vaccine"). Substantial proportions of students showed imbalanced word-reading profiles, but these were…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Profiles, Verbal Ability, Dyslexia
National Assessment Governing Board, 2008
This document sets forth the design of a test of reading comprehension. The exam requires students to read passages of written English text--either literary or informational--and to answer questions about what they have read. In some cases, the questions deal with facts in the text or vocabulary. In other cases, a complete answer requires a clear…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Materials, Federal Legislation, State Standards
Williamson, Leon E.; And Others – 1980
A study investigated the reading responses of 60 eighth grade students to encoded inflectional, syntactic, grammatical, and semantic errors. The students were equally divided into three categories based on grade level reading competency and given three Aesopian fables to read. The text of the fables contained the following errors: (1) words to…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Grade 8, Miscue Analysis, Reading Research
Peer reviewedLey, Terry C.; And Others – Journal of Reading, 1979
Describes a study of the relationship between performance on word problems and general reading ability, certain problem-solving reading and thinking skills, and computation skills. (DD)
Descriptors: Computation, Elementary Education, Grade 8, Problem Solving
Loomis, Susan Cooper, Ed.; Bourque, Mary Lyn, Ed. – 2001
The purpose of this report is to increase understanding of the achievement levels for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), what they are, and what they are not. NAEP is a survey of American students' knowledge and skills in different subjects at grades 4, 8, and 12. NAEP combines the samples of performances to provide…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 12, Grade 4, Grade 8
Denner, Peter R.; Rickards, John P.; Albanese, Andrew J. – 2002
A study assessed the extent to which a generative prereading activity known as Story Impressions (SI), which entails composing a guess from clues, influenced passage recall relative to a more passive prereading activity of reading a content preview (CP). Using 8th grade students, the results indicated the CP groups equaled the reading only control…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Instructional Effectiveness, Junior High Schools, Reading Comprehension
CUTTS, WARREN G. – 1963
THIS BULLETIN PRESENTS RESEARCH STUDIES IN READING ON THE UPPER ELEMENTARY GRADE LEVEL DURING THE PERIOD FROM 1955 THROUGH 1960. THIS COMPILATION WAS UNDERTAKEN BY THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION IN AN ATTEMPT TO BRING TOGETHER THE UNPUBLISHED AS WELL AS PUBLISHED STUDIES OF THAT 5-YEAR PERIOD. THE 238 STUDIES WHICH ARE OUTLINED, SUMMARIZED, AND ANNOTATED…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Educational Methods, Grade 6, Grade 7
Dodd, Elizabeth – 1973
The purpose of this study was to investigate effects on comprehension of content material in the three subject areas of science, social studies, and literature. Sixty-nine eighth grade students from the same school served as subjects. The Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test, Survey E, Form 1M, Comprehension subtest, was used to group students into above…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Grade 8, Literature
Denner, Peter R.; McGinley, William J. – 1990
A study investigated the use of story impressions as a prereading writing activity to determine the story comprehension and recall of 96 seventh- and eighth-grade students. Students in the experimental group were given a set of story-relevant "impressions" (clue words) prior to reading a narrative passage and were asked to formulate a…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Reading Comprehension
Winograd, Peter N. – 1983
A study systematically examined the strategy differences between good and poor readers as they summarized what they had read. Subjects, 36 poor and 39 good eighth grade readers and 37 adults, completed tasks to measure their (1) awareness of the task demands involved in producing summaries, (2) ability to identify task important elements in a…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Processes, Grade 8, Junior High Schools
Gill, Patrick Ralston – 1972
This study was an experimental investigation designed to ascertain the effectiveness of a technique for predicting student success in a special reading program. The disparity between a student's score on a reading test taken silently and his score on an equivalent form which was read orally by the investigator as the student read it silently was…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Reading
