The placement test scores in reading indicate a large number of students entering Florida's community colleges are not prepared for college-level courses. In addition, the results of this study indicated that the placement test did very little to discriminate between levels of students' actual ...
When Inside Higher Education recently interviewed college students about their reading, a University of Florida sophomore claimed she relied entirely on YouTube videos to explain her reading. Academic texts, biology major Ava Wherley reported, used “overly complex language, which makes them harde...
By 2009, the median reading test score of students in their initial 3rd-grade year had improved by more than one-third of a standard deviation since 2001, as had nearly all points on the distribution. Florida defeats the skeptics: test scores show genuine progress in the Sunshine State In ...
The school-within-a-school setting is a classroom designed to provide additional academic support for students whose Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) reading scores indicated the need for additional support by the school district. Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test reading scale scores, ...
In Florida, the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) is used to measure student achievement on grade-specific standards and benchmarks. Various agencies have developed computer-based and web-based software applications to improve student performance on these tests. The purpose of this study ...
Scores from the Stanford Achievement Tests administered to 50,000 students in Palm Beach County, Florida, were studied in order to determine whether the speeded nature of the reading comprehension subtest was related to inconsistencies in the score profiles. Specifically, the probable effect of random...
The relationship between performance on a measure of oral reading fluency and performance on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (Technical Report 1) (2003) BurnsM.K. et al. Meta-analytic review of responsiveness-to-intervention research: Examining field-based and research-implemented models Jour...
Section A His future subjects have not always treated the Prince of Wales with the respect one XXXX expect. They laughed aloud in 1986 when the heir to the British(36)_ throne _ told a TV reporter that he talked to his plants at his country house, High grove, to stimulate their growth...
The study, financed by the federal Department of Education, tracked the reading habits and test scores of more than 1,300 Florida children from 17 low-income schools. At the start of the study, 852 randomly selected first- and second-graders attended a school book fair in the spring where ...
Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Section A His future subjects have not always treated the Prince of Wales with the respect one XXXX expect. They laughed aloud in 1986 when the heir to the British(36)_ throne _ told a TV reporter that he talked to his plants at his ...