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Lipson, Marjorie Youmans – 1982
A study examined the relationship between types of miscues made by readers during oral reading and the errors made by the same readers on a cloze task. Subjects were 79 third and 78 fifth grade students in eight intact classrooms. Both the oral reading miscues and the cloze replacements were categorized using a modification of Y. Goodman's miscue…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language)
Li, Liu – 1989
A study investigated the process of learning French by Chinese students, as revealed by student errors in 48 compositions and 33 oral reports. Grammatical, or competency, errors were categorized by type and frequency. Analysis of the results shows the most frequent errors to be, in declining order of occurrence: in the use of articles; choice of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages), Error Patterns
Alme, Ann-Marie – 1985
A study of overt audible speech behavior in eight male and one female Swedish adults examined the relationship between disfluency and speaking modality, disfluency type in mild versus severe stutterers, and disfluency and psycholinguistic variables. Three conditions of experimental manipulation were used: reading aloud, reading the longer lines of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dialogs (Language), Error Patterns, Form Classes (Languages)
Advanced Technology, Inc., Reston, VA. – 1984
Edits that can be performed by the processor who applies for federal campus-based student aid programs are discussed, along with a longer-term approach to assessing the efficacy of recommended edit checks. Attention is focused on the accuracy of data submitted by institutions on the application portion of the Fiscal Operations Report and…
Descriptors: Computation, Data Collection, Error Patterns, Evaluation Methods
Studdert-Kennedy, Michael, Ed.; O'Brien, Nancy, Ed. – 1984
One of a regular series on the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation, and practical applications, this report covers the period of January 1-June 30, 1984. The 14 studies summarized in the report deal with the following topics: (1) sources of variability in early speech development, (2)…
Descriptors: Adults, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Children
Applied Management Sciences, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1979
A Pre-Award Validation Analysis was conducted in 1978-1979 to provide the federal government information about the accuracy of data provided by applicants for Basic Educational Opportunity Grants. New procedures involved: validation of selected applications by college financial aid officers using documentation such as Federal Income Tax forms;…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Disclosure, Eligibility
Sleeman, D.; And Others – 1984
In an attempt to initiate a new approach to the teaching of Pascal, a study was conducted to ascertain the difficulties students encountered when they attempt to learn this computer language. Screening tests were given to 68 students in grades 11 and 12 who had just completed a semester course in Pascal. The purpose of the test was to detect…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Error Patterns, Experimental Teaching, High School Students
Cauce, Ana M.; And Others – 1976
Most of the research on the assessment of the intelligence of Latinos in the United States appears to be based on some possibly erroneous or at least dubious assumptions. Among these are the following: (1) the assumption of bilinguality; (2) the assumption of equal proficiency in the English language; (3) the assumption of the equivalence of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Culture Fair Tests, Error Patterns, Ethnic Stereotypes
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 23 titles provide information on a variety of topics, including the following: (1) voice and the fictional narrative; (2) the effects of oral response groups before and after rough drafts on writing achievement and apprehension;…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Anxiety, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education
Birenbaum, Menucha; Tatsuoka, Kikumi K. – 1980
Much valuable information can be gained by analyzing the students' wrong responses. When a student answers a free response item she/he gives the response which she/he considers to be the correct one. Therefore, diagnosing the algorithm that led the student to his/her answer provides an important source of information for assessing his/her…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Algorithms
Levy, Paul S.; French, Dwight K. – 1977
Synthetic estimation is a statistical technique that estimates small-area statistics by combining national estimates of the relevant characteristics with estimates of other known characteristics of the small geographic area. The advantages of the synthetic estimation approach to local estimation are its intuitive appeal, its simplicity, and its…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Data Collection, Demography, Error Patterns
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British Council, London (England). English-Teaching Information Centre. – 1973
This selective bibliography lists 8 books and articles dealing with Russian-English contrastive studies and 2 articles on general Slavic studies. The entries range in date from 1953 to 1967. The books cited are European or American publications and the articles appeared in well-known European or American pedagogical language journals. (TL)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English
Varga, Laszlo – 1975
This is a contrastive analysis of British English, American English and Hungarian sentence prosody. The first part is an introduction stating the study's objective, scope and data, and briefly surveying the related literature. It outlines the study's view of prosodic features and its principles of comparison and prediction. Part Two inventories…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Error Patterns
Filipovic, Rudolf – 1974
A major problem in learning a second language is the interference of a structurally different native language. Contrastive analysis (CA) combined with learner error analysis (EA) provide an excellent basis for preparation of language instructional materials. The Yugoslav Serbo-Croatian-English Contrastive Project proved that full application of CA…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
LoCoco, Veronica Gonzalez-Mena – 1976
Three methods for second language data collection are compared: free composition, picture description and translation. The comparison is based on percentage of errors in a grammatical category and in a source category. Most results obtained from the free compositions and picture descriptions tended to be similar. Greater variation was found for…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Testing, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
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