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Reducing Reading Illiteracy by Improving Reading Materials
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Pyrczak, Fred – Reading Improvement, 1976
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Higher Education, Illiteracy, Readability
Skills Measured by Selected Reading Tests Designed for High School Use
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Pyrczak, Fred; Rasmussen, Marilyn – Reading Improvement, 1974
Indicates that standardized reading tests vary widely in terms of the number of skills measured and in terms of the relative emphasis on each skill in studies done at the high school level. (RB)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, High Schools, Reading Improvement, Reading Research
Readability of Directions on Potentially Hazardous Household Products
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Pyrczak, Fred – Reading Improvement, 1977
Reports study which found that some high school students were far from any reasonable level of mastery of the ability to comprehend directions on potentially hazardous household products. (JM)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, High School Students, Readability, Reading Ability
Reading Comprehension of Directions on Medication
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Pyrczak, Fred – Reading Improvement, 1973
A fourteen-item test designed to measure knowledge of the meanings of words used in directions for non-prescription medication was constructed to illustrate the use of criterion-referenced measurement in reading. (TO)
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Readability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
Special Factors to Consider when Selecting Reading Comprehension Tests and Exercises
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Pyrczak, Fred – Reading Improvement, 1973
Discusses passage content and style, accessibility of the passages, their completeness, the extent to which the items are passage-dependent, and the extent to which additional knowledge is required to answer the questions on reading comprehension tests and exercises. (TO)
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Test Construction, Test Selection
A Closer Look at the Quality of Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension Items.
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Pyrczak, Fred – Reading Improvement, 1981
Reports that when given only the choices to reading comprehension items, some students are able to identify the correct choices without reference to the associated passage or the item stems, a characteristic that threatens the validity of reading comprehension tests. (Author/FL)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Multiple Choice Tests, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests