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Download full textBlasingame, Virginia G. – 1982
To find out what study skills were used by successful students at an urban commuter school whose primary degree program is business, the College Reading and Study Skills (CRSS) inventory was validated on 150 students. First the CRSS inventory was evaluated and revised slightly. The language of the statements was made positive and jargon free. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Nontraditional Students, Reading Research, Reading Skills
Chall, Jeanne – Todays Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Developmental Reading, Reading Materials
Quattrini, J. – 1980
Drawing from an overview of cloze research, this paper sets forth the thesis that the validity of the cloze technique and its usefulness as a measuring device have been clearly established, but its usefulness as a teaching device has not been so determined. Salient points of research are summarized as follows: (1) if rates of developing…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Error Analysis (Language), Reading Comprehension
Bourque, Mary Lyn – 1979
A study was conducted to compare two methodologies for establishing hierarchical relationships--the Dayton and Macready model and the White and Clark procedure--using criterion referenced test data. Several phonics and structural analysis skills were selected from a reading skills battery. The opinions of reading "experts" were solicited in order…
Descriptors: Classification, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Education, Organization
Calfee, Robert; Juel, Connie – 1977
After reviewing the information that teachers and other decision makers need to have about student achievement and some recent advances in the theory and practice of reading assessment, the author makes a number of recommendations for improving assessment programs. These include: do less massive, broad-band testing, but improve the reliability and…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Strang, Ruth – 1968
This monograph includes an extensive review and evaluation of the research literature and offers teachers and clinicians background for understanding reading diagnosis, the correlates and causes of reading disabilities, diagnostic techniques, and remediation. The following topics are discussed: (1) the nature and levels of diagnosis, (2) the…
Descriptors: Reading Diagnosis, Reading Difficulties, Reading Difficulty, Reading Improvement
Takahashi, Barbara L. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to compare the performance of ninth-grade slow readers with ninth-grade good readers and with sixth grade readers on a test of syntactic comprehension. The significant difference between the ninth-grade good readers' and the ninth-grade slow readers' performance on A Test of Sentence Meaning (ATSM), developed by…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Reading, Reading Comprehension
Busch, Robert F. – 1974
The problem investigated in this study was to determine the best combination of tests or subtests in a research battery which, when administered to beginning first-grade students, would enable the most efficient prediction of reading achievement. A total of 1052 children were randomly selected from first-grade classrooms within the State of…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Intelligence Tests, Predictive Measurement, Primary Education
Canter, Andrea Sherril – 1975
This study investigated the developmental relationships between a battery of cognitive tasks--including Piagetian operations of conservation, classification, and seriation--and early reading achievement. Subjects were 128 kindergarten through third-grade students at a suburban elementary school. They were administered a battery of cognitive tests…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations, Early Reading, Primary Education
Riverside Research Inst., New York, NY. – 1973
This feasibility study for developing a measure of effectiveness in reading contains five sections. "The Need and Requirements for a Measure of Effectiveness in Reading" presents the problem, functional specifications for a measure of effectiveness in reading, the minimum number of tasks required to uild an effectiveness measure, approaches to the…
Descriptors: Readability, Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement
Glock, Marvin D. – 1970
Three basic concerns in measurement were selected, and their importance for the classroom teacher were illustrated. These were test validity, reliability, and problems in measuring achievement gains. Test validity was dependent upon content, type and quality of the questions, adequacy with which the test sampled reading skills, and the care with…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Measurement, Measurement Techniques, Questioning Techniques
Johnson, Clifford I. – 1969
To predict success in reading achievement, 148 first graders from three schools representing a cross section of the economic structure of a southeastern U.S. community were administered, in September, the following tests: the Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception, the Gates Reading Readiness Test, the Metropolitan Readiness Test, and the…
Descriptors: Followup Studies, Grade 1, Grade 3, Predictive Measurement
Jacobson, M. Victoria – 1974
The major purpose of this study was to provide insights into some of the reasoning strategies that may be used by students in obtaining meaning from the printed page. The study was designed to collect and analyze the verbal protocols of 11 seventh grade students involved in introspection as they responded to standardized measures of reading…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Grade 11, Linguistics
Calby, Diana Heywood – 1971
The effects of specific directions on the reading comprehension of sixth-grade students were investigated. Two passages on different topics, each with 20 percent of the sentences relevant to the topic, were materials for two informal tests administered to 92 six-grade students. Half of the students were given specific directions to learn about the…
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Grade 6, Informal Reading Inventories, Learning Processes
Fram, Ralph D. – 1972
This review of the literature related to the cloze procedure includes most of the studies reported from 1953 to 1971. One hundred ninety-eight documents are included and are divided into four categories, studies in which the cloze procedure has been applied (1) as a measure of readability, (2) as a measure of comprehension, (3) as a measure of…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Literature Reviews, Readability, Reading
