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Peer reviewedJohnston, Peter H.; Allignton, Richard L. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1983
Criticizes a study of the reliability and validity of curriculum-based reading inventories by L. S. Fuchs, D. Fuchs, and S. L. Deno and raises questions regarding the study's internal and external validity. (AEA)
Descriptors: Informal Reading Inventories, Readability Formulas, Reading Research, Research Methodology
Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 titles include studies of an informal reading inventory; an item-type to test phonic and context skills; reliability of residual gain scores based on means for a standardized reading achievement measure; alternatives to…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education
Eldredge, J. Lloyd; Butterfield, Dennie – 1984
Because of concern about the harmful effects of placing children in low reading groups, this study tested the following "sacred cows" in reading: (1) the use of informal reading inventories for grouping children in reading instruction, (2) the homogeneous grouping practices currently utilized in most classrooms in the United States, (3)…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Childrens Literature, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction
Parrish, Berta E.; And Others – 1978
The nine articles presented in this yearbook were drawn from Arizona State University's Annual Reading Conference which focused on new directions in reading. Four of the articles deal with evaluation techniques in reading and include discussions of developing culture-fair informal reading inventories, what oral language tests really measure, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading, Criterion Referenced Tests
