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Williams, Jazz C. – English in Education, 2015
Several inference types serving distinct purposes are established in the literature on reading comprehension. Despite this highlighting that inference is a non-unitary construct, reading tests tend to treat it as a single ability. Consequently, different tests can assess different inferential abilities. Professionals, knowing what is implicitly…
Descriptors: Inferences, Sentences, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests
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Ebell, Mark H.; Cervero, Ronald; Joaquin, Edward – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2011
Introduction: Our goal was to identify the clinical questions that health care professionals have at the point of care and explore whether these questions could be used to drive a needs assessment for continuing education programs. Methods: We gathered questions from 28 clinicians; 11 were directly observed for approximately 5 days per person,…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Needs Assessment, Test Selection, Physicians
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Ackerman, Peggy T.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1992
Forty children (ages 9-12) identified as having dyslexia on the basis of intelligence and achievement tests were evaluated. Results imply that a test of phonological sensitivity and another of nonsense word decoding identified children who were dysphonetic. Nondysphonetic disabled readers were older and had higher verbal intelligence quotients…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Classification, Decoding (Reading)