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Region 16 Comprehensive Center, 2023
Alaska's last literacy blueprint was written in 2011. A lot has changed in 12 years. Since then, Alaska adopted new English Language Arts standards to reflect the advanced literacy students need to be ready for college and careers. The Alaska Department of Education & Early Development (DEED) adopted the Alaska Native Cultural Standards for…
Descriptors: Literacy, Language Arts, Academic Standards, Culturally Relevant Education
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Zuilkowski, Stephanie Simmons; Piper, Benjamin; Kwayumba, Dunston; Dubeck, Margaret – Journal of Research in Reading, 2019
Background: Governments in low-income countries and donors have invested the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars in enhancing reading outcomes. Although reliable measures exist to assess emergent literacy skills in international contexts, there is little consensus on the assessment of reading comprehension. Methods: Using data from 5,389…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Foreign Countries, Private Schools
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Hodge, Marie Antoinette; Chan, Esther; Sutherland, Rebecca; Ong, Natalie; Bale, Gillian; Cramsie, Jane; Drevensek, Suzi; Silove, Natalie – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2022
Tele-assessments may enable specialist evaluation of students in schools and their progress following intervention. The aim of this project was to evaluate the feasibility of using videoconferencing technology to assess students with reading difficulties in the school setting and obtain the perspectives of teachers supporting the students during…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Technology, Videoconferencing, Student Evaluation
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Morrison, Jennifer D.; Wang, Chuang; Costa, Priscila J. B. M. – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2022
The Charlotte Bilingual Preschool (CltBP), situated in the 17th largest urban area of the US, has found itself at the intersection of its community's agendas to provide high quality preschool services to Spanish-speaking families, improve opportunities for upward mobility, and foster literacy gains for children from birth through third grade. This…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Elementary School Students, Spanish Speaking
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Lohmann, Julian F.; Zitzmann, Steffen; Voelkle, Manuel C.; Hecht, Martin – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
One major challenge of longitudinal data analysis is to find an appropriate statistical model that corresponds to the theory of change and the research questions at hand. In the present article, we argue that "continuous-time models" are well suited to study the continuously developing constructs of primary interest in the education…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Structural Equation Models, Time, Achievement Tests
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McCarron, Sean Patrick; Kuperman, Victor – Journal of Research in Reading, 2022
Background: Previous studies show that students improve communication skills throughout post-secondary study proportionately to first-year ability, yet important questions remain. How does post-secondary affect the development of reading comprehension and related skills? How does this development vary between L1 and L2 speakers, and how much…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Reading Skills, Native Language
He, Wei – NWEA, 2022
This report documents the norming study procedure used to produce the achievement and growth user norms for English MAP Reading Fluency Foundational Skills. It also provides snapshots of the achievement and growth norms for each grade and domain.
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Reading Tests
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Dhyaaldian, Safa Mohammed Abdulridah; Al-Zubaidi, Sura Hasan; Mutlak, Dhameer A.; Neamah, Nour Raheem; Albeer, Ali A. Mohammed Ali; Hamad, Doaa A.; Al Hasani, Saad Fadhil; Jaber, Mustafa Musa; Maabreh, Hatem Ghaleb – International Journal of Language Testing, 2022
Cloze tests are gap-filling tests designed to measure overall language ability and reading comprehension in a second language. Due to their ease of construction and scoring, cloze tests are widely used in the context of second and foreign language testing. Previous research over the past decades has shown the reliability and validity of cloze…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Cloze Procedure, Reading Tests, Language Skills
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Edwards, Ashley A.; Steacy, Laura M.; Siegelman, Noam; Rigobon, Valeria M.; Kearns, Devin M.; Rueckl, Jay G.; Compton, Donald L. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Set for variability (SfV) is an oral language task that requires an individual to disambiguate the mismatch between the decoded form of an irregular word and its actual lexical pronunciation. For example, in the task, the word wasp is pronounced to rhyme with clasp (i.e. /waesp/), and the individual must recognize the actual pronunciation of the…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Decoding (Reading), Pronunciation, Phonemic Awareness
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Moradi, Elahe; Ghabanchi, Zargham; Pishghadam, Reza – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
Given the significance of the test fairness, this study aimed to investigate a reading comprehension test for evidence of differential item functioning (DIF) based on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' gender and their mode of learning (conventional vs. distance learning). To this end, 514 EFL learners were asked to take a 30-item…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Test Bias, Test Items, Second Language Learning
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Zhong, Yao; Suwanthep, Jitpanat – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This study aimed to explore the effects of a lexical approach to Chinese English major students' reading comprehension ability as well as students' opinions of this approach. A quasiexperimental study was carried out in a Normal University in southern China for 11 weeks. An intact class of 45 first-year English major students at intermediate level…
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning
Stephen Posselt – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This action research study focused on establishing a professional learning community of secondary special educators to explore authentic meaning-based reading experiences with struggling readers. The term meaning-based reading experience encompasses both holistic reading evaluations in the form of miscue analysis, and more meaning-focused strategy…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Materials, Teacher Attitudes, Learning Disabilities
Gema Del Moral – ProQuest LLC, 2022
English Language Learners (ELLs) are at an academic disadvantage with the rest of general education because they are linguistically challenged, especially in reading. Educators are recommended to use best practices to provide a good quality education to ELLs through the use of instructional tools. One instructional tool that is recommended to use…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Materials, Academic Achievement, English Language Learners
Neba Afanwi Nfonsang – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study used a propensity score approach to estimate treatment effects in a multilevel setting. The propensity score approach involves the estimation of propensity scores for covariate balancing and the estimation of treatment effects. This study aimed at understanding how propensity scores estimated through a simple logistic regression compare…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Scores, High School Students, Grade 10
Kathryn S. McCarthy; Rod D. Roscoe; Laura K. Allen; Aaron D. Likens; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2022
The benefits of writing strategy feedback are well established. This study examined the extent to which adding spelling and grammar checkers support writing and revision in comparison to providing writing strategy feedback alone. High school students (n = 119) wrote and revised six persuasive essays in Writing Pal, an automated writing evaluation…
Descriptors: High School Students, Automation, Writing Evaluation, Computer Software
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