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Direct linkHoadley, Ursula; Muller, Johan – Curriculum Journal, 2016
Why has large-scale standardised testing attracted such a bad press? Why has pedagogic benefit to be derived from test results been downplayed? The paper investigates this question by first surveying the pros and cons of testing in the literature, and goes on to examine educators' responses to standardised, large-scale tests in a sample of low…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Developing Nations, Visual Discrimination
Fuhrken, Charles – Stenhouse Publishers, 2011
Tests require a special kind of savvy, a kind of critical thinking and knowledge application that is not always a part of classroom reading experiences. Who better to teach you how to prepare your students for reading tests than someone who has written them? Charles Fuhrken has spent years working with several major testing companies and…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Reading Tests, Testing, Standardized Tests
Zipke, Marcy – Reading Psychology, 2007
While it is generally acknowledged that metalinguistic awareness plays a role in decoding ability (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2000), less is known about the role metalinguistic awareness plays in comprehension. In the present study, structural riddles and ambiguous sentences differing in the source of linguistic…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 6, Reading Comprehension, Role
Peer reviewedHudgins, Bryce B.; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1979
Intermediate students scored better on reading comprehension tests when questions on content were interspersed in the text. (JD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Intermediate Grades, Questioning Techniques, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedWipf, Joseph A. – Foreign Language Annals, 1976
Significant test concepts are discussed and guidelines are given for planning and constructing test items. Examples are given for evaluating reading comprehension and suggestions are made for pre- and post-test activities. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Language Tests, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills
HARRIS, THEODORE L.; AND OTHERS – 1965
METHODS OF TESTING, EVALUATING, AND TEACHING READING IN THE FOURTH, FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADES ARE DESCRIBED. CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTAL TESTS OF VARIABILITY IN READING SPEED ARE DISCUSSED. DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE RATIONALE THAT A MEANINGFUL READING-TIME SCORE DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE SUBJECT'S PURPOSE FOR READING. WHILE READING SPEED MAY…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Intermediate Grades, Psychometrics, Psychomotor Skills
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Educational Testing. – 1977
The Degrees of Reading Power test (DRP) and its related technology are described in this publication. It contains a brief description of the DRP, which was designed to measure the most difficult level of text that a student can read with comprehension; a report on the validation of the test; sample DRP passages; an instructional viewpoint as it…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
Barrentine, Shelby J., Ed.; Stokes, Sandra M., Ed. – International Reading Association (NJ3), 2005
How do teachers respond to the competing pressures of school accountability, high-stakes testing, classroom assessment and instruction? This updated collection of articles from The Reading Teacher can help. Readers will find tools for: (1) Building school assessment policies; (2) Helping students succeed on high-stakes tests; (3) Using assessment…
Descriptors: Testing, Reading, Reading Tests, Elementary Education
Hamlin, Mike – Use of English, 1986
Examines the evolution of reading comprehension in English classrooms and examination rooms and considers active and collaborative approaches to teaching reading comprehension. (HOD)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Trends
Download full textLeicht, Kenneth L. – 1973
This project determines the extent to which similarity of teacher and student structuring of class materials is related to student performance on tests covering the materials. Information about how student and teacher structure the materials was obtained through a matching test. During the second stage of the project, three alternative procedures…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Classification, College Students
Smith, Carl B.; And Others – 1969
One of four books directed to reading specialists, the text provides information on methods for identifying problems that can be efficiently treated in a remedial reading group and on methods for handling these problems. Consideration is given to the scope of the problem and to three categories of disabilities. Levels of diagnosis, types of tests,…
Descriptors: Classrooms, Dyslexia, Educational Diagnosis, Exceptional Child Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 35 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) cloze procedure; (2) the monitoring and facilitation of reading growth; (3) the effect of immediate item feedback on the reliability and validity of verbal…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills, Cloze Procedure, Communication Skills
Morley, Joan, Ed. – 1976
This collection of papers on teaching English as a second language includes the following: (1) "Testing: A Case for Cooperation," by Paul A. Angelis; (2) "Developing a Learning Syllabus in ESL by Teacher Consensus," by Donald Byrd; (3) "Using Debate in ESOL," by Janet Constantinides and Mary Fry; (4) "Non-Verbal Films for Discussion," by Stephen…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Communication Skills, Debate, English (Second Language)
HAYES, ANN; AND OTHERS – 1967
IN THE GREATER CHICAGO AREA A STUDY WAS MADE OF TEACHING MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR LITERACY EDUCATION. AN ANNOTATED, SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHED MATERIALS WAS COMPILED OF PROFESSIONAL BOOKS, BASAL MATERIALS INCLUDING PUBLISHERS' SERIES, AND SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS. TEACHERS ARE CAUTIONED TO ASSUME A SELECTIVE APPROACH BECAUSE NO BASAL…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Annotated Bibliographies, Counseling, Evaluation
California State Univ., Los Angeles. National Dissemination and Assessment Center. – 1978
This journal consists of guides to instructional materials and articles on subjects of interest to teachers in bilingual education programs. The following articles and regular features appear in this issue: (1) "Social Class or Culture? -- A Fundamental Issue in the Education of Culturally Different Students," by Frank Angel, an excerpt from a…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Behavior Change, Biculturalism
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