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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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Segev, Elad; Cahan, Sorel – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2014
Selection to programmes for gifted students in Israel, performed in the second grade, relies on raw ability and achievement test scores, irrespective of age, thereby ignoring the well-known effect of within-grade age differences on test scores. Employing the entire cohort of third graders of legal age (67,366 students, 1.4% of whom were enrolled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Age Differences, Academically Gifted, Special Education
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Salvador, Samantha Kane; Schoeneberger, Jason; Tingle, Lynne; Algozzine, Bob – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2012
Oral reading fluency is a critical feature and outcome of early literacy instruction and it has amassed great attention as a powerful predictor of success at all levels of schooling. We examined relationships between second grade oral reading fluency scores and third grade end-of-grade reading achievement scores for students (N = 9562) in a large…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading Achievement, Emergent Literacy