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Toyama, Yukie; Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Pearson, P. David – Educational Assessment, 2017
This study investigated the complexity of leveled passages used in four classroom reading assessments. A total of 167 passages leveled for Grades 1-6 from these assessments were analyzed using four analytical tools of text complexity. More traditional, two-factor measures of text complexity found a general trend of fairly consistent across-grade…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Reading Skills, Student Evaluation, Difficulty Level
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Ortlieb, Evan; Sargent, Stephan; Moreland, Meagan – Reading Psychology, 2014
This study examined the effectiveness of using the online digital reading environment to increase elementary students' comprehension within a reading clinic. Preservice teachers at a four-year university in the Midwest worked one-on-one with 58 fourth-grade students from three schools who were assigned to one of three conditions: print-based text…
Descriptors: Reading, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension
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L'Allier, Susan K. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2013
This study examined how effectively candidates in an MSEd in literacy education with a focus on reading program used the results from the Basic Reading Inventory to develop key instructional recommendations. The results indicated that, overall, candidates made about two thirds of the key recommendations suggested by an expert in the area of…
Descriptors: Informal Reading Inventories, Data, Decision Making, Reading Instruction
Treat, Wendy Abigail – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Literacy acquisition is imperative to successful academic progress and to successful participation in our society. Students with identified learning disabilities are often among those who struggle to acquire literacy skills. The following dissertation shares the results of a reading intervention study in which nine students with identified…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Learning Disabilities, Intervention, Reading Instruction