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READING THEORY AND THE ASSESSMENT OF READING ACHIEVEMENT

Journal of Educational Measurement, 1983
Recent research on human cognition has involved characterization of the processes, strategies, and knowledge that contribute to competent performance, and identification of the ways these change as competence develops. Such work is contributing not only to a better understanding of what learning involves, but also to a theoretical base for the ...
MARY E. CURTIS, ROBERT GLASER
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Vision and Reading Achievement

Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 1964
Summary Near point working distance measurements were taken on 692 public school children, ranging from kindergarten to grade eight. Two measurements were taken of the child's near point working distance: 1. The writing distance, while the child was sitting at his desk. 2.
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Early Achievement in Reading

The Elementary School Journal, 1942
Tmns article reports the results of tests of early reading abilities and analyzes the results in order to indicate those abilities which seem to be the more important in guiding the progress of young children in learning to read. One test of early abilities was the Gates Reading Readiness Tests. The other was the Wilson-Flemming Symbols Scales.
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Time Engaged in Reading: A Critical Factor in Reading Achievement

American Annals of the Deaf, 1992
The reading achievement of deaf children may be low not only as a result of factors related to the hearing loss, such as a lag in language development. Environmental factors such as the quantity and quality of reading instruction, for example, may also cause low reading achievement. This study looked at the amount of time spent reading and the types of
E A, Limbrick, S, McNaughton, M M, Clay
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Attention and Reading Achievement

2009
This study examines the cause and effect relationship between attention and reading achievement. The study design relies on a correlational research process. Two sets of data were collected on the same group of students; the data collected was on student attention and reading achievement.
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Dora opoku’s achievements made inspirational reading

Nursing Standard, 2011
I was shocked to learn of the death of midwife and educationalist Dora Opoku (obituary January 26).
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Measures of Reading Achievement

2012
This chapter presents the data related to reading skills for the VL2 Psychometric Toolkit Project. The data were generated using multiple reading tasks, including Reading Fluency and Paragraph Comprehension from the Woodcock-Johnson III (WJ-III) Tests of Achievement as well as the Reading Comprehension from the Peabody Individual Achievement Test ...
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Reading achievement progress across countries

International Journal of Educational Development, 2015
Abstract This paper discusses a method to compare progress in reading achievement across countries. The method uses measures of achievement in primary schools from PIRLS and compares them to secondary school results from PISA. Results describe an interval in which estimates of progress can lie, depending on the comparability of these two assessments.
Maciej Jakubowski, Artur Pokropek
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Achievement 1000 reads

2023
Orús-Lacort, Mercedes, Orus, Roman, Jouis, Christophe   +2 more
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Reading Readiness and Reading Achievement in First Grade

The Journal of Experimental Education, 1940
Recent studies have generally shown that placement in first grade is not advisable solely on the basis of a chronological age of six years. For example, Betts1 reports that investigators have found that a mental age of six to six and one-half is essential for suc cessful reading achievement. Hildreth2 states that children below the range from 6 yrs.
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