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Direct linkLorence, Jon – Educational Research Quarterly, 2010
The Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) test was the major source of data for the Texas educational accountability system from 1994 through 2002. Contrary to critics who claim that TAAS data are invalid and unreliable measures of student performance, structural equation analyses of TAAS reading data based on the 1994 Texas third grade…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, High Stakes Tests, Reading Tests, Scores
Download full textGhaith, Ghazi; Obeid, Hoda – Educational Research Quarterly, 2004
This study examines the effect of training in think alouds on literal and higher-order reading comprehension. Thirty-two (n = 32) eighth grade students of English as a foreign language (EFL) participated in the study. The participants were randomly assigned to control and experimental conditions. Descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Multivariate Analysis, Correlation, Grade 8
