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Direct linkMacArthur, Charles A.; Konold, Timothy R.; Glutting, Joseph J.; Alamprese, Judith A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
The purpose of this study was to identify subgroups of adult basic education (ABE) learners with different profiles of skills in the core reading components of decoding, word recognition, spelling, fluency, and comprehension. The analysis uses factor scores of those 5 reading components from on a prior investigation of the reliability and…
Descriptors: Investigations, Learning Disabilities, Construct Validity, Validity
MacArthur, Charles A.; Konold, Timothy R.; Glutting, Joseph J.; Alamprese, Judith A. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
The purposes of this study were to investigate the reliability and construct validity of measures of reading component skills with a sample of adult basic education (ABE) learners, including both native and nonnative English speakers, and to describe the performance of those learners on the measures. Investigation of measures of reading components…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Construct Validity, Validity, Adult Basic Education
Download full textSackville, Patricia – 1994
The validity of the Southam News 1987 survey of literacy in Canada was questioned relative to its content and structure. The survey viewed literacy as a set of complex information processing skills and adopted a hierarchical view of these skills. This hierarchy model set up illiteracy as a deficiency. The Southam study's underlying assumption was…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Construct Validity, Content Validity
Schierloh, Jane M. – 1993
A qualitative study investigated the test-taking behaviors, knowledge, and perceptions of 20 urban, adult basic education students reading at third to fifth grade equivalency levels. The entire reading comprehension subtest of the Test of Adult Basic Education, levels E and M, was administered under standardized conditions. A combination of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Construct Validity, Reading Comprehension, Scores
Gorman, David; Ernst, Megan L. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2004
Lifelong learning has become an important goal of education over the last decade. According to the United States Department of Education (2001), nearly 3 million students over age 17 (excluding those institutionalized) enrolled in adult basic education, adult secondary education, or English as a second language classes in the United States.…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Adult Basic Education, Lifelong Learning, Test Reviews
Cumming, J. Joy, Ed.; van Kraayenoord, Christina E., Ed. – 1996
This document contains eight papers from an action research program to foster good practice in adult literacy provision and policy. "Introduction" (J. Joy Cumming, Christina E. van Kraayenoord) presents an overview of the action research project and individual reports. "Assessment: Making a Difference in Adult Literacy and Numeracy…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
