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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Identifying an Indicator of Growth in Early Writing Proficiency for Elementary School Students.
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Lembke, Erica; Deno, Stanley L.; Hall, Kim – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2003
This study compared alternative measures of early writing performance with 15 second-grade students in a summer program for students at risk. Two- to three-minute samples were obtained of word copying, sentence copying, word dictation, and sentence dictation. Writing from word and sentence dictation correlated best with global judgments of…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Curriculum Based Assessment, Grade 2, Measures (Individuals)
Factor Structure of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests--Revised, Forms G and H.
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Williams, Thomas O., Jr.; Eaves, Ronald C.; Cox, Cynthia – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2001
This study analyzed the factor structure of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests Revised (WRMT-R), a test battery used to measure basic reading skills. Findings indicated that both forms of the WRMT-R contain a large unrotated general factor and, when rotated obliquely, two correlated factors representing basic skills and reading comprehension.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Structure, Psychometrics, Reading Difficulties
Reliability and Validity of the Writing Essential Skill Screener--Elementary Version (WESS-E).
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Erford, Bradley T.; Dorman, Stacy L.; Ivey, Elizabeth A.; Wingeart, Leah N. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2001
Four independent samples of children were used to study the reliability and validity of the Writing Essential Skill Screener, a measure designed to screen primary grade children at risk for writing difficulties. Among findings was that the measure is comprised of two dimensions, writing and name writing, that the factor structure did not fit the…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Factor Structure, Primary Education, Psychometrics