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Direct linkDavid J. Francis; Paulina A. Kulesz; Shiva Khalaf; Martin Walczak; Sharon R. Vaughn – Grantee Submission, 2022
Intervention research in education is sometimes criticized for the use of experimenter developed assessments, especially when these are over aligned with treatment. At the same time, intervention researchers sometimes prefer locally developed assessments because they appear to be more sensitive to treatment effects even when the test is not…
Descriptors: Intervention, Standardized Tests, Test Items, Grade 8
Wood, Carla L.; Bustamante, Kristina N.; Schatschneider, Christopher; Hart, Sara – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine construct validity of methods of calculating lexical diversity in written narrative samples relative to children's performance on a reading vocabulary measure. For 234 children in first to fifth grade, written narratives were examined and compared between grades for number of different words (NDW), total…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Construct Validity, Elementary School Students, Correlation
Hock, Michael F.; Brasseur-Hock, Irma F.; Hock, Alyson J.; Duvel, Brenda – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
Reading achievement scores for adolescents with disabilities are markedly lower than the scores of adolescents without disabilities. For example, 62% of students with disabilities read "below" the basic level on the NAEP Reading assessment, compared to 19% of their nondisabled peers. This achievement gap has been a continuing challenge…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Middle School Students, Learning Disabilities
Swanson, Elizabeth; Wanzek, Jeanne; Vaughn, Sharon; Fall, Anna-Maria; Roberts, Greg; Hall, Colby; Miller, Veronica L. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
This study aimed to determine the efficacy of a content knowledge and reading comprehension treatment implemented by 8th-grade social studies teachers over the course of 1 school year. We randomly assigned 8th-grade students with reading difficulties to the intervention treatment condition (n = 45) or the business-as-usual comparison condition…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Grade 8, Social Studies
LEIBERT, ROBERT E. – 1967
A STUDY DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY SOME OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE RESPONSES ON THE GATES ADVANCED PRIMARY READING TEST AND THE KINDS OF RESPONSES OBTAINED FROM AN INFORMAL READING INVENTORY (IRI) IS REPORTED. SUBJECTS WERE 65 THIRD-GRADE PUPILS IN WEST BABYLON, NEW YORK. PUPILS AT THE SAME INSTRUCTIONAL LEVEL SCORED HIGHER IN THE RECOGNITION TEST…
Descriptors: Informal Reading Inventories, Reading Tests, Standardized Tests, Test Interpretation
Gilbert, Katherine J. – 1972
The alternate program at McBride School was an organizational and curricular modification that offered optional activities, community recreation, semestering of some subjects, and unstructured time. It involved four intermediate grade classes. Questionnaires were distributed to students who were enrolled in the alternate program and to their…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Intermediate Grades, Parent Attitudes
