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50 Years of ERIC
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Effects of Technology Enhancements and Type of Teacher Support on Assessing Spanish-Speaking Children's Oral Reading Fluency in Second Grade
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York, Mary J.; Foorman, Barbara R.; Santi, Kristi L.; Francis, David J. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2011
We examined student-, classroom-, and school-level effects in predicting second-grade Spanish-speaking children's oral reading fluency in Spanish. Teachers in 67 randomly selected urban schools administered the Tejas LEE to 1,537 first- and second-grade students. Oral reading fluency was measured in the passages students read for comprehension.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Bilingual Students, Mentors, Reading Fluency
The Importance of Predictive Power in Early Screening Assessments: Implications for Placement in the Response to Intervention Framework
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Petscher, Yaacov; Kim, Young-Suk; Foorman, Barbara R. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2011
As schools implement response to intervention to identify and serve students with learning difficulties, it is critical for educators to know how to evaluate screening measures. In the present study, "Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills" Oral Reading Fluency was used to compare the differential decisions that might occur in screening…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Learning Problems, Intervention, Reading Fluency
Development of Spelling and Differential Relations to Text Reading in Grades 3-12
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Foorman, Barbara R.; Petscher, Yaacov – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2010
The authors claim that assessing spelling in Grades 3-12 has utility. They base their claim on data from 875,040 students in Grades 3-12 in 52,923 classes in 840 Florida schools who took the Reading Comprehension, Maze, and Word Analysis spelling portions of the "Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading" during the 2009-2010 school year. The…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Spelling, Grades (Scholastic), Spelling Instruction
Second Graders as Spellers: What Types of Errors Are They Making?
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Arndt, Elissa J.; Foorman, Barbara R. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2010
Beginning second-grade students (N = 60) were administered a researcher-developed, dictated spelling test. Spelling errors of students were analyzed by grade-level spelling patterns and linguistic characteristics: phonological, orthographic, orthographic image, transposition, and morphological. Results revealed that morphological spelling pattern…
Descriptors: Spelling, Knowledge Level, Grade 2, Error Patterns