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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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Leong, Che Kan; Ho, Man Koon; Chang, Jianfang; Hau, Kit Tai – Language Testing, 2013
The present study examined pedagogic components of Chinese reading literacy in a representative sample of 1164 Grades 7, 9 and 11 Chinese students (mean age of 15 years) from 11 secondary schools in Hong Kong with each student tested for about 2.5 hours. Multiple group confirmatory factor analyses showed that across the three grade levels, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 7, Grade 9
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van Steensel, Roel; Oostdam, Ron; van Gelderen, Amos – Language Testing, 2013
On the basis of a validation study of a new test for assessing low-achieving adolescents' reading comprehension skills--the SALT-reading--we analyzed two issues relevant to the field of reading test development. Using the test results of 200 seventh graders, we examined the possibility of identifying reading comprehension subskills and the effects…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Low Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests