Possible predictive factors for the greater johnstown school district's pennsylvania system of school assessment reading results

Possible predictive factors for the greater johnstown school district's pennsylvania system of school assessment reading results. (2008). Possible predictive factors for the greater johnstown school district's pennsylvania system of school assessment reading results.

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Title	Possible predictive factors for the greater johnstown school district's pennsylvania system of school assessment reading results
Abstract	Relative to Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBA) and the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA), this study sought to determine whether a school district's CBA reading scores were predictors for the PSSA reading scores for a grade-level cohort of students. Those CBA reading scores were collected in fourth through seventh grades; while the PSSA measure was a scaled score earned on the eighth grade reading measure. The sample included 268 eighth grade students who were roughly 48% male, 22% registered as being an ethnic minority, and 21% categorized as having an educational disability. Pearson and Spearman's correlations between fourth grade reading grades and fourth grade CBA scores validated the district CBA reading measure as a measure of reading skill. The students received two possible reading curricula, the Johns Hopkins' Success for All reading program or a Houghton Mifflin reading basal program. Consistent with the literature, students categorized with educational disability performed more poorly on the eighth grade PSSA than their peers (p<.01), and CBA reading (p<.01) was a significant predictor of PSSA reading performance. Conversely, neither sex (p≥.05) nor curriculum (p≥.05) was a significant predictor of that PSSA reading performance.
Date	2008

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Title: Possible predictive factors for the greater johnstown school district's pennsylvania system of school assessment reading results
Personal Name(s): Rauch, Mary E. Armstrong
Levinson, Edward M.
Corporate Name(s): Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Educational and School Psychology.
Note: Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Levinson, Edward M. Committee members: William Barker; Victoria Damiani; Mary Ann Rafoth.
Topical Subject(s): Educational evaluation
Educational psychology