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Goodwin, Amanda P. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
This study explores the effectiveness of integrating morphological instruction within comprehension strategy instruction. Participants were 203 students (N = 117 fifth-grade; 86 sixth-grade) from four urban schools who were randomly assigned to the intervention (N = 110; morphological problem-solving within comprehension strategy instruction) or…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
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Pyle, Katie; Jones, Emily; Williams, Chris; Morrison, Jo – Educational Research, 2009
Background: All national curriculum tests in England are pre-tested as part of the development process. Differences in pupil performance between pre-test and live test are consistently found. This difference has been termed the pre-test effect. Understanding the pre-test effect is essential in the test development and selection processes and in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pretesting, Context Effect, National Curriculum