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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"reading test scores"”.
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The Relationship Between Birth Order and Standardized Reading Test Scores
… score significantly higher on a standardized reading test than siblings occupying other positions in the birth order. Eleventh grade students at a public high school in a southwestern county in Georgia were surveyed as to whether they were the only child, the eldest child, or occupied another …
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A Comparison of Standardized Oral Reading Test Scores and Standardized Informal Reading Inventory Results
… of the results obtained from two standardized reading tests with those acquired through that utilization of a standardized informal reading inventory to establish grade-equivalent scores of selected subjects in grade one. The subjects were twenty pupils attending a summer session designed for …
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The Effects of Bilingual Education on Reading Test Scores: Can Dual-immersion Support Literacy for All Students?
… both ELL and EFLS children over time. Students' scores on standardized tests (ITBS, TAKS, Logramos, Stanford 9, and Aprenda) were studied to assess the impact, if any, of dual-immersion instruction vs. regular/bilingual education on reading development. Scores from 2000 through 2004 were gathered …
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Parental involvement and its effects on student academic achievement
… and parent-teacher conference attendance. Reading test scores of students with high parental involvement were compared to students with low parental involvement using a comparison of test score means and Pearson correlations. Results indicated that there was no significant difference …
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The Creation of a Ninth Grade Literacy Course: One Teacher's Experiences in Teaching a Standards-Based Literacy Course
… course. In response to consecutively low reading test scores, the administration in a rural high school in South Central Kentucky established a literacy course for all ninth grade students. This research illustrates the teacher’s implementation and instruction of that course. In addition, …
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Impact of a state sponsored intervention program on reading comprehension scores
… Ramp-Up Literacy intervention program on reading comprehension test scores as measured by Mississippi's Subject Area Test Program (SATP) and the Mississippi Curriculum Test, Second Edition (MCT 2). There were 252 participants representing three school districts over three testing years. …
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The Influence Of Students' Cognitive Style On A Standardized Reading Test Administered In Three Different Formats
… of this study was to examine the means of scores on three forms of a standardized reading comprehension test taken by community college students in developmental reading classes. The three forms of the test were administered as a timed multiple-choice test, a constructed response test, and …
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A Correlational Study of the Relationship Between Cloze Procedures and Standardized Reading Tests For Intermediate Grades
… would be significantly correlated to standarized reading tests. The subjects for this study were sixty fourth and sixth grade students. The variables in this study were The Nelson-Reading Test, SRA Reading subtest and the cloze proceure independent level, instructional level, and frustrational …
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Essays in economics of education: free primary education, birth order and human capital development in Lesotho
… six pupils' standardised maths and (English) reading test scores from 2000 and 2007 to analyse changes in educational achievement and educational inequality, and the determinants of such changes. The analysis of the data shows that educational achievement increased significantly for both low- …
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Navigating Social-emotional Experiences for Readers: Stories of Two High-performing Urban Elementary Teachers
Reading proficiency rates for elementary students in the United States are extremely concerning, especially for students in urban contexts (National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2017). Due to accountability pressures and high-stakes testing, low-performing urban schools often take measures …
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The Relationship Between Academic Confidence and Academic Achievement of Selected First Time Students at Grand View College
… used College Student Inventory, Nelson Denny Reading Test scores, and GPA to investigate the relationship among academic achievement, confidence, and study habits for selected academically at-risk students at Grand View College. Procedures. Students scoring below the 35th percentile on the …
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A COMPARISON OF THE TWO WAY DUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BILINGUAL PROGRAMS ON TAKS READING ACHIEVEMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR SCHOOL LEADERS
… Dual or Developmental program, (b) who have been tested on the 2010 and 2011 TAKS reading test, (c) non-English language students who have been tested on the 2010 and 2011 TAKS reading test, (d) who have not been retained and (e) who did not receive special education services. The data for the …
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Kindergarten Entrance Age and Reading Achievement at the End of First and Third Grade
… entrance age and its relationship to reading achievement at the end of first and third grade. Standardized reading test scores of 463 third grade students in a southern Wisconsin school district were studied to test these hypotheses: 1. No significant relationship exists between …
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The Effects of Explicit Reading Strategy Instruction and Cooperative Learning on Reading Comprehension in Fourth Grade Students
… direct instruction and cooperative learning on reading comprehension in fourth grade students. A quasi-experimental design was used. There were six cognitive and three affective measures used to collect quantitative data. Cognitive measures included California State Test scores, Accelerated …
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Comparative Study of Reading First Schools Reading Achievement to Non-Reading First Schools.
… if there was any significant increase in the reading achievement of Reading First third grade students compared to the reading achievement of the third grade reading students in Non-Reading First schools located in southwest Virginia for 2004-2009. The Standards of Learning (SOLs) reading test …
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Teacher Education Admission Requirements and Student Teacher Evaluations: Relationships Among Grade Point Average, Praxis I Scores, and Student Teacher Final Evaluations
… influences also search for the best and brightest teacher candidates to become K-12 teachers. The result has been increased accountability measures to ensure quality. The selection process for admission to teacher education programs frequently involves quantitative measures such as cumulative …
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Essays on the economics of education
… effect is a two percentile point gain in math test scores and a one and a half percentile point gain in reading test scores. The effect is stronger for students in the lower end of the distribution of test scores, and is roughly similar to raising parent’s education by one year. I find evidence …
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The effects of summarization training on community college developmental English students
… previous research has documented improvement in reading recall when subjects were taught a hierarchical summary procedure, the study constitutes the first attempt to test whether this procedure can be used to train students to write better summaries. Developmental English students were chosen for …
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Middle School Principals' Time-on-Tasks and the Relationship to School Performance
… with student performance on mathematics and reading tests. When demographic factors are combined with the time-on-tasks categories, a regression analysis suggests that the strongest contributing factor to mathematics and reading test scores is the socioeconomic status of the school with a …
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Teacher Self-Efficacy and Student Achievement as Measured by North Carolina Reading and Math End-Of-Grade Tests.
… achievement with respect to North Carolina Reading and Math End-Of-Grade tests. Surveys were administered to teachers in grades three through eight, in eight Pre-K through 8<sup>th</sup> grade schools. Data collected focused on teachers' feeling of self-efficacy. This study employed …
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