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Fontenot, Karen – Adult Literacy and Basic Education, 1983
This 8-item test is intended to help adult basic education teachers obtain a quick assessment of the prereading skills that their beginning adult readers have already mastered. The individual items of the test are designed to assess the following: ability to write one's own name; left-to-right orientation; perceptual hearing; sound-letter and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Students
Peer reviewedGalen, Nancy – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1980
The author analyzes four informal reading inventories (IRIs) designed for adult students. Evaluative data presented for each IRI include the following: information on word lists and passages and on comprehension questions, estimates of difficulty based on the Fry index of readability, and a summary of scoring and evaluation guidelines. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Diagnostic Tests, Informal Reading Inventories
