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Reading was assessed using the WORD test of reading accuracy (score range 0-52, mean = 28.78, s.d.= 9.05) administered by trained psychologists in research clinics at age 7.5 years.
The first was a test of reading proficiency – the Wide Range Achievement Test – Revised (WRAT-R [ 38]), which is widely used as a putative measure of premorbid intellectual functioning [ 39- 41].
The first is the phonics check – the brief test of reading ability the DfE introduced for year 1 pupils.
Mr. Clinton proposed a voluntary national test of reading in fourth grade and of mathematics in eighth grade.
The timing of the "phonics check", a test of reading progression that currently takes place at the end of year one, is also being reconsidered.
The government is seeking to impose a standard, minimum syllabus.Early in his first term, applicants for teaching jobs were set a voluntary test of reading proficiency and logic.
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The Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults and its shortened version are timed tests of reading comprehension of medical information [ 11, 12].
Do standardized tests of "reading comprehension," along with all of the other elements of reading instruction — the ranking and leveling of books and readers, the timed reading requirements, the vocabulary and the readers full of stories by authors never heard of before or since — really affect whether children learn to love to read?
The intervention effects were measured with tests of reading comprehension assessment of literary and nature themes, through a pre and post test experimental design.
Along similar lines, another study that investigated the comparability of conventional and computerized tests of reading in a second language was Sawaki (2001).
Although Alderson did not explicitly mention that cloze tests could substitute grammar and vocabulary tests, he clearly stated that cloze tests did not measure high-order reading comprehension skills because they were not highly correlated with tests of reading comprehension.
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