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Developing A College-Level Speed And Accuracy Test, Jordan Gilbert, Marne Isakson, Zach Loud, Austin Miller Feb 2011

Developing A College-Level Speed And Accuracy Test, Jordan Gilbert, Marne Isakson, Zach Loud, Austin Miller

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Dr. Isakson has been studying literacy and reading for decades and has been working on the Speed and Accuracy test for about 11 years. I worked for her for the last year of the project to pull it all together and polish it up. The Speed and Accuracy Assessment is meant to give a brief insight into a college student's ability to read quickly and gain basic level comprehension of what is provided within a text. Dr. Isakson has been working with students for decades and sympathizes for freshmen in college who academically have done very well before but do …