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Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading, Aligned to the Language Arts Florida Standards, FAIR-FS, Grades 3 through 12. Technical Manual
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Foorman, Barbara R.; Petscher, Yaacov; Schatschneider, Chris – Florida Center for Reading Research, 2015
The FAIR-FS consists of computer-adaptive reading comprehension and oral language screening tasks that provide measures to track growth over time, as well as a Probability of Literacy Success (PLS) linked to grade-level performance (i.e., the 40th percentile) on the reading comprehension subtest of the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT-10) in the…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Screening Tests, Reading Comprehension, Oral Language
Teacher Evaluation Study. Norming Study, Generic Competence Revision, Feedback Proposal, Cognitive Examinations, and Specialized Domains. Report for 1983-1984.
Florida Coalition for the Development of a Performance Measurement System, Tallahassee. – 1984
The work of the Florida Teacher Evaluation Project was based upon the assumption that one of the most promising approaches to the improvement of student learning is through the study and modification of teacher behavior. The work has produced products in the areas of domain documents, handbooks, and manuals. This report is an extension of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Evaluation Criteria, Performance Factors, Program Development
The Effect of Sex-Dependent Norms on Aggregated Reading and Mathematics Test Scores.
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Gramenz, Gary W.; And Others – Florida Journal of Educational Research, 1986
Differences between school reading and mathematics means, rank orderings, and change scores obtained from total-group and sex-dependent norms were examined for students in grades 2 through 9 in a Florida school district. A preliminary study investigated sex-related differences between verbal and quantitative performance of boys and girls on seven…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 3, Mathematics Achievement
Florida Journal of Communication Disorders, 1998.
Victor, Shelley J., Ed.; Lundy, Donna S., Ed. – Florida Journal of Communication Disorders, 1998
This annual volume is a compilation of research, clinical, and professional articles addressing innovative technology, new diagnostic tests, physiological basis for treatment, and therapeutic ideas in the fields of speech-language pathology and audiology. Featured articles include: (1) "Development of Local Child Norms for the Dichotic Digits…
Descriptors: Adults, Audiology, Children, Cultural Differences
Comparative Performance of Florida Seniors on the GED Test Battery.
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Stoker, Howard W. – Florida Journal of Educational Research, 1985
Two studies investigated the performance of Florida high school seniors on the Tests of General Educational Development (GED Tests). The GED Test Battery, as revised in 1980, consists of 290 items in 5 subject areas (writing, social studies, science, reading, and mathematics). In the first study, the performance of 1,200 Florida students was…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Equivalency Tests, Functional Literacy
LILAC: A Program Enabling Primary-Age Spanish-Dominant Children to Learn the Language of Instruction.
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Adams, Brian F. – 1987
A school on Florida's west-central coast was selected as the site for the Language Intensive Lab Accelerated Classroom (LILAC) program which was developed to address the need for a county-wide, objective-based educational program for non-English proficient (NEP) and limited-English proficient (LEP) Hispanic children in grades K-2. The number of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Dropouts, Educational Finance