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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"reading ability testing"”.
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Challenges Of Studying Attributes Associated With African American Males Who Are Not Successful With Testing Measures
… of self-esteem, locus of control, test anxiety, reading ability, testing behaviors and the performance of African American males on high-stakes tests of educational achievement. Simultaneously, the study provides a reflection on the challenges faced by a practitioner when he studies an issue of …
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Reader-text match: The interactive effect of reader ability and text difficulty on comprehension monitoring
1 PDF file (vi, 184 pages)
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An invesitigation into teacher preparedness to teach initial literacy in Zambia indigenous languages under the new breakthrough to literacy programme: the case of Solwezi college of education and selected basic schools in the north-western province of Zambia
… with special education needs to attain early reading and writing skills. This course later spread to several parts of the world and Africa was no exception. Notably, in South Africa it was adopted by a nongovernmental project called Molteno Project and later spread to Botswana and Namibia with …
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An invesitigation into teacher preparedness to teach initial literacy in Zambia indigenous languages under the new breakthrough to literacy programme: the case of Solwezi college of education and selected basic schools in the north-western province of Zambia
… with special education needs to attain early reading and writing skills. This course later spread to several parts of the world and Africa was no exception. Notably, in South Africa it was adopted by a nongovernmental project called Molteno Project and later spread to Botswana and Namibia with …
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Calculating text difficulty for text reading fluency for 1st to 5th grade levels
Lestur er ein mikilvægasta færni nemanda í skóla og samanstendur af nokkrum þáttum, meðal annars nákvæmni í lestri og sjálfvirkni. Lestrarpróf eru notuð til að meta og fylgjast með lesfærni og samanstendur prófið af texta sem nemandinn les innan ákveðins tíma. Til að hægt sé að fylgjast með …
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Nature and prevalence of reading difficulties in the third grade : Lusaka rural and urban schools
… at investigating the nature and prevalence of reading difficulties in the third grade of Lusaka rural and urban schools. A sample comprising 106 pupils selected from Chongwe, Lusaka Boys, Lusaka Girls and Northmead Basic schools participated in this study. A number of instruments were used to …
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Cross-validation of new oral reading fluency criteria based on empirical data from Icelandic elmentary students
… criteria for Icelandic elementary students’ oral reading fluency (ORF), and to compare the new criteria to the present goal-oriented criteria (GOC). The new criteria were empirical based criteria (EBC). Data were provided by The Directorate of Education in Iceland. The data consisted of scores …
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Relationship between Adult Patient's Reading Levels and Comprehension of Consent Form
… of this study are to (a) determine the readability of a selected patient consent form using Fry and SMOG formulas, (b) determine the reading levels of the participants using WRAT-R Level 2 Reading subtest, (c) determine the participants comprehension of the consent form using the Cloze …
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Prediction of Reading Achievement Using Conservation Performance
1 PDF file (61 pages)
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Reliability and Validity of Arm Extension Testing in Diagnosing Reading Disorders
… purpose of this study was to investigate the reliability and validity of an arm elevation technique employed in the diagnosis of reading disability.
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The generation effect and word learning: a test of the effect of the language experience approach versus the text approach in the acquisition of new reading vocabulary
… grade one children was tested to determine their reading levels using the Stanford Diagnostic Reading Achievement Test. Based on these results and teacher input the students were paired according to reading ability. The students ages ranged from six years four months to seven years four months at …
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A study of the predictive validity of the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test and the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge at the 4th, 5th and 6th grade levels
… was to determine the predictive validity of reading achievement scores obtained using the <em>Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test</em> and student performance on the Language Arts Literacy section on the <em>New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge</em> using a sample of students from the …
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Determining the effectiveness of two new reading programs in the Lower Alloways Creek School
… study was to determine the effect of the two new reading programs on the improvement of students' reading scores and the enhancement of instruction in the Lower Alloways Creek School District using an action research design. Teachers involved in using the new programs were surveyed. Student grades …
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The Cloze Procedure: A Measure of Reading Comprehension Ability
… subtest of the McGraw-Hill Basic Skills System Reading Test and the cloze test developed for this project. Two classes of undergraduate education majors enrolled in “Foundations of Performance-Based Education” were administered both the cloze test and the multiple choice comprehension test. A …
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Testing Linguistic Capital: The Reproduction of Culture Through the Standardized Testing of Literacy
… theories of Bourdieu, this thesis shows how the ability to transmit complex language and possessing the knowledge of how to use language is part of having access to linguistic and cultural capital. Having this knowledge allows individuals to be accepted into the dominant culture and to …