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- Publisher
- SAGE
- Copyright
- Copyright © by SAGE Publications
- ISSN
- 0022-2194
- eISSN
- 1538-4780
- DOI
- 10.1177/002221946900200507
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Abstract
achievement. For those predicted low, the tests recommended for use with children with mean reading score on the Gates Primary learning disabilities, including several which Reading Test was 11.8, and for those predicted have appeared within the pages of this journal, high, the mean reading achievement was 17. simply have not been adequately standardized, For the sample of 49, the difference between and proper measures of their reliability the two groups was significant at less than the coefficients have not been made. The gut work .01 level of significance. Knowledge that the 6 of standardization has not been done. Until point difference was highly significant did not such time as tests are properly standardized, help in deciding whether the difference was meaningful reliability coefficients cannot be important. On the Gates Primary Test, a raw obtained. Unreliable tests lead to unreliable score of 11.8 or 12 corresponds to a grade score answers. of 2.3. A score of 17 corresponds to a grade I will leave you with two thoughts. One is a score of 2.5. In other words, in spite of the warning, and the other is a recommendation. highly significant difference, the actual The warning I have paraphrased from
Journal
Journal of Learning Disabilities – SAGE
Published: May 1, 1969