In this article, the authors review the research on curriculum-based measurement (CBM) in
reading published since the time of Marston's 1989 review. They focus on the technical …

In TEFL, it is often stated that communication presupposes comprehension. The main
purpose of readability studies is thus to measure the comprehensibility of a piece of writing …

I use readability scores to test if referees and/or editors apply higher standards to women's
writing in academic peer review. I find:(i) female-authored papers are 1-6 percent better …

Publisher Summary This chapter reveals a methodology of assessing basic academic skills
focused on problem solving that has been designed to evaluate a student's skills and …

The ability to read and comprehend texts is an essential component of successful
functioning in our world. A substantial amount of information comes to us through written …

Political scientists lack domain‐specific measures for the purpose of measuring the
sophistication of political communication. We systematically review the shortcomings of …

Prompted by the advent of new standards for increased text complexity in elementary
classrooms in the USA, the current integrative review investigates the relationships between …

This study examined the effects of passage and presentation order on progress monitoring
assessments of oral reading fluency in 134 second grade students. The students were …

This study used data from the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS;
Good & Kaminski, 2002) oral reading fluency (ORF) probes to examine variation among …

The current study replicated Gickling and Armstrong (1978) by using curriculum-based
assessment for instructional design to match reading materials to skill levels of three third …