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Developing A Measure Of Student Literacy Competencies At A Tertiary Level Using Rasch Measurement, Barry Sheridan, Les Puhl
Developing A Measure Of Student Literacy Competencies At A Tertiary Level Using Rasch Measurement, Barry Sheridan, Les Puhl
Research outputs pre 2011
This paper reports an Australian investigation into concerns about student writing at University level and the construction of an objective measure of literacy. The English Skills Assessment (ESA) test, involving multiple choice items, and an essay, marked according to specified criteria, was administered to newly enrolled students (N = 495) in a University's Education programme. Analyses reveal inconsistencies between subtests of the ESA test, but the written test shows more promise. While some association is observed between the two measures, comparable subtests (such as spelling, punctuation, sentence structure) do not appear to be measuring the same thing.
A Study Of Time Orientation, Temporal Integration And Reading Comprehension: Back To The Future, Tacey L. Ruffner
A Study Of Time Orientation, Temporal Integration And Reading Comprehension: Back To The Future, Tacey L. Ruffner
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
Problem. Lower-track high school students' combination of poor reading comprehension, present time orientation and shortened temporal integration is an area that has been identified in a range of divergent literature, but little studied in terms of educational practice. Previous research into time orientation and temporal integration has failed to investigate a connection with reading comprehension. Purpose. The purpose was to determine if there is a relationship between time orientation, temporal integration, reading achievement/high school track level and reading comprehension. Procedures. Two measures, a Time Orientation Questionnaire and a Cloze Test of Reading Comprehension, previously identified and pilot tested, were employed. …
A Study To Determine If Telecommunications Can Be Used As A Medium To Teach Basic Literacy Skills To Illiterate Adults In Virginia, Joan Hairston Jones
A Study To Determine If Telecommunications Can Be Used As A Medium To Teach Basic Literacy Skills To Illiterate Adults In Virginia, Joan Hairston Jones
OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers
The following goals were selected to guide this study: 1. Determine which methods have been used and how successful they have been in the past to teach basic literacy skills to illiterate adults; 2. Determine the methods currently being used to supplement classroom instruction; 3. Determine how receptive adults are to self-paced, self-directed methods; 4. Determine the type of problems experienced using telecommunications to teach literacy skills.
A Study To Determine The Correlation Between School Attendance And The Passing Rate On The Virginia Literacy Passport Test At Rosemont Middle School 1990-1992, Victoria R. Porter
A Study To Determine The Correlation Between School Attendance And The Passing Rate On The Virginia Literacy Passport Test At Rosemont Middle School 1990-1992, Victoria R. Porter
OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers
Examination of the following questions established a relationship between school attendance and the passing rater of the test: 1. Did students with high attendance records earn higher test scores? 2. Did students with low school attendance records earn lower test scores? 3. Is there a relationship between Literacy Passport Test Scores and school attendance?
Let's Decode: Inservice Manual, P. J. Formentin
Let's Decode: Inservice Manual, P. J. Formentin
Research outputs pre 2011
This manual contains inservice material that was prepared for a research project that came to be known as Let's Decode. My motive for publishing the material in this form is to make it available to other teachers who may wish to apply the same principles and procedures in their own classrooms. Typically, they will be teachers who are concerned about children experiencing difficulty learning to read, and teachers responsible for students with special education needs. I am confident that regular classroom teachers will also find the material valuable for all children in the early stages of learning to read. My …
The Continuity Of Literacy Development: Kindergarten To Year 1, Lennie Barblett
The Continuity Of Literacy Development: Kindergarten To Year 1, Lennie Barblett
Theses : Honours
The purpose of this study was to investigate the continuity of strategies and provisions that teachers use to develop children's literacy in kindergarten and Year 1. In two metropolitan Ministry of Education districts, 27 kindergarten and 25 Year 1 teachers completed a questionnaire concerning issues relating to literacy development in these two educational settings. From this population four teachers were interviewed to investigate areas of interest that arose from the questionnaire. The results showed that kindergarten and Year 1 teachers differed in the selection of strategies and provisions to promote literacy in young children. There was a clear delineation between …