ERIC Number: ED094358
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Publication Date: 1974
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Measuring Reading Performance.
Blanton, William E., Ed.; And Others
Designed to provide solutions to some of the problems related to measuring reading behavior, this publication explores some of the problems of test selection and usage which confront educators. Contents include "Reading Testing for Reading Evaluation" by Walter R. Hill, "Reading Tests and the Disadvantaged" by Thomas J. Fitzgibbon, "What Is Criterion-Referenced Measurement?" by Frank B. Womer, "Criterion-Referenced Tests: A Critique" by Frederick B. Davis, "Reading Tests and Performance Contracting" by Thomas P. Hogan, and "Comments on Impertinent Pertinent Problems with Content Validity in Reading Tests: A Response to Hogan" by J. Jaap Tuinman. (RB)
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Measurement Instruments, Performance Contracts, Reading Ability, Reading Tests, Test Selection
International Reading Association, 800 Barksdale Road, Newark, Delaware 19711 (Stock No. 718, $3.50 non-member, $2.50 member)
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Authoring Institution: International Reading Association, Newark, DE.
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