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Reading Comprehension Tests Vary in the Skills They Assess: Differential Dependence on Decoding and Oral Comprehension
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Keenan, Janice M.; Betjemann, Rebecca S.; Olson, Richard K. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2008
Comprehension tests are often used interchangeably, suggesting an implicit assumption that they are all measuring the same thing. We examine the validity of this assumption by comparing some of the most popular reading comprehension measures used in research and clinical practice in the United States: the Gray Oral Reading Test (GORT), the two…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Age, Oral Reading
Effects of Curriculum within Curriculum-Based Measurement.
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Fuchs, Lynn S.; Deno, Stanley L. – Exceptional Children, 1992
This study assessed the effects of curriculum on technical features (criterion validity and developmental growth rates) within curriculum-based measurement in reading with 91 elementary level handicapped and nonhandicapped students. Correlations between oral reading samples and reading comprehension as well as developmental growth rates were…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Child Development, Curriculum, Difficulty Level
The Maze as a Classroom-Based Reading Measure: Construction Methods, Reliability, and Validity.
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Parker, Richard; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1992
Twenty years of research on the Maze, a classroom-based reading measure for students with learning disabilities, is summarized. Overall, the research is supportive of the Maze. However, the most common version requires revision to obtain minimum construct validity, and additional research is needed on reliability and usefulness of alternate forms.…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Construct Validity, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
Greater Validity for Oral Reading Fluency: Can Miscues Help?
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Parker, Richard; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1992
This study examined the criterion-related validity of oral reading fluency (ORF), number of words read correctly per minute, with 64 regular, remedial, and special education elementary-level students. Comparison with two miscue-based assessment measures did not support modification of traditional ORF but did suggest practical value of selected…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Evaluation Methods
The Reading Process in Content Fields: A Psycholinguistic Investigation.
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Guzzetti, Barbara J. – American Educational Research Journal, 1984
This examination of the reading processes of 36 fifth graders focused on the reader's attempts to gain meaning from three content passages using syntactic and semantic cue systems. The reading strategies of high, average, and low ability readers appeared not to vary with content. Prior knowledge and interest influenced comprehension. (Author/BS)
Descriptors: Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Miscue Analysis, Oral Reading
The Effects of Repeated Reading on Two Types of CBM: Computer Maze and Oral Reading with Second-Grade Students with Learning Disabilities.
Swain, Kristine D.; Allinder, Rose M. – Diagnostique, 1996
Three second-grade students with learning disabilities were measured twice a week for 12 weeks on 2 types of curriculum-based measurement (computer maze and oral reading) and an intervention of repeated readings was implemented. Data indicated that the repeated reading intervention affected oral reading CBM, but not performance on the maze…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Curriculum Based Assessment, Informal Reading Inventories, Intervention
Curriculum-Based Measurement and Developmental Reading Models: Opportunities for Cross-Validation.
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Potter, Margaret L.; Wamre, Heidi M. – Exceptional Children, 1990
The paper outlines the rationale and development of curriculum-based measurement (CBM) and its empirical support; summarizes two reading models (Chall's stages of reading development and LaBerge and Samuels' model of automaticity); and discusses how CBM, with its use of oral reading rate measures, and the reading models may validate each other.…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Models
Technical Adequacy of Alternative Reading Measures as Performance Assessments.
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Tindal, Gerald; Marston, Douglas – Exceptionality, 1996
Two studies focused on concurrent validity and instructional decision making in using alternative reading measures with elementary regular and special education students. The first study examined the relation of oral reading performance to several other reading measures; the second study investigated teacher decision making, using quantitative and…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Concurrent Validity, Decision Making, Elementary Education
Reading and Study Skills and Instruction: Preschool and Elementary: Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations Published in "Dissertation Abstracts International," July through December 1983 (Vol. 44 Nos. 1 through 6).
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 18 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) predicting kindergarten children's success with specific reading methods using group readiness tests; (2) the types of discourse included in basal reading…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations