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Download full textManning, Maryann; And Others – 1985
The results of different types of reading achievement measures were compared for 58 low-income urban black third graders. Two formal tests were administered: the norm-referenced California Achievement Tests (CAT), and the criterion-referenced Alabama Basic Competency Test (ABCT). Informal measures included the Houghton-Mifflin Informal Reading…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Achievement Rating, Black Students, Cloze Procedure
Wichita Public Schools, KS. Curriculum Services Div. – 1981
Designed for teachers, administrators, and supervisory personnel for use in planning, developing, and evaluating reading programs, this curriculum guide has been prepared to describe significant features of the classroom reading program for teaching reading from kindergarten through eighth grade. Following a general introduction are 9 sections…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Course Content, Curriculum
Achilles, C. M.; DuVall, Lloyd – 1983
Pupils at three elementary schools and one junior high school among Area 1 inner-city schools of St. Louis Missouri, were identified as scoring well below norms on standardized tests. An effort to change the educational programs at these schools netted financial support and the creation of Project SHAL (named for the schools involved). Inservice…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, Educational Change
Larkin, Paul G. – 1977
Faced with the need to replace a "waiting list" system of nursing program admissions with a more equitable selection process, Prince George's Community College examined the criteria leading to successful completion of the five-part State Board Examinations (SBE). Resultant criteria would then be used to place applicants into a…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Allied Health Occupations Education, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations
Goldman, Margery – 1980
Designed to provide supplementary learning materials for use in a teaching unit on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and to present materials which utilize an integrated approach to learning, this curriculum project for junior high and high school students includes student materials, a teacher's guide, and a play about the Pueblo Revolt. Following the…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Studies, American Indians
Martin, Wanda; And Others – 1981
Designed to help vocational teachers aid students in reading vocational education class materials, this handbook contains six sections of background information and suggested activities geared to various aspects of reading and a section of ideas for use in improving the reading skills of vocational students. While most of the examples in the…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Informal Reading Inventories, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 34 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) elementary school reading comprehension instruction; (2) a language experience approach to remedial reading instruction with junior high school students, (3)…
Descriptors: Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, Doctoral Dissertations
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 13 titles deal with the following topics: the evaluation of the elementary reading specialist; the validity of the Visual-Aural Digit Span Test as a predictor of word recognition and spelling in learning disabled children; the…
Descriptors: Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Content Area Reading, Criterion Referenced Tests
Dissemination and Assessment Center for Bilingual Education, Austin, TX. – 1978
The teacher's manual, written in Spanish, is a detailed guide for using the reader and workbook of the same title. Taken together, the three books comprise the second level of a series of supplementary materials to teach reading in Spanish to second grade students. The teacher's guide contains an introduction explaining the series in its entirety,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Course Objectives, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Games
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 20 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: predictors of primary grade reading achievement; factor analysis of the WISC-R to distinguish disabled readers at three grade levels; a process model for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adults, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Bormuth, John R. – 1979
A procedure is demonstrated for constructing tables showing, for each score on a commercial reading achievement test, the percentage of real-world materials that the testee is likely to comprehend with at least a criterion level of proficiency, the percentages of students in a local or national sample who can competently comprehend a given…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Equivalency Tests, Expectancy Tables
BERMAN, MARK L. – 1966
AS ONE PHASE OF RESEARCH IN APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY, YAQUI INDIAN AND MEXICAN MEN IN ARIZONA HAVE PARTICIPATED FOR THREE YEARS IN EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMED COURSES IN BASIC ENGLISH AND ARITHMETIC. THE STUDENTS HAD PREVIOUSLY HAD AN AVERAGE OF FIVE YEARS' FORMAL SCHOOLING. A BATTERY OF STANDARD OBJECTIVE TESTS WAS GIVEN TO MEASURE IQ AND ABILITY TO READ…
Descriptors: American Indians, Analysis of Variance, Educational Background, Educationally Disadvantaged
Thurston, Eric L., Ed.; Hafner, Lawrence E., Ed. – 1965
Focusing on the philosophical and sociological bases of reading, the papers in this volume were drawn from the fourteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1964. Among the topics covered in the 27 papers are the following: the philosophy and sociology of reading; reading reform; adult literacy; paperback books; factors in…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Cloze Procedure, College Students
Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1970
This is the first of two volumes containing papers focusing on reading processes and pedagogy that were drawn from the nineteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1969. Among the topics discussed in the 42 papers are the following: underlining, individualized reading instruction, reading improvement programs in industry…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Critical Reading
New York Univ., NY. Inst. for Developmental Studies. – 1965
The tests described in this index are used by the Institute for Developmental Studies in its principal areas of research and do not include recently developed tests. The research at the Institute is concerned with (1) the relationship of differing environments to language development, (2) classroom communication between teachers and children of…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Tests, Behavior Rating Scales, Child Development
