Gloria Waters

Too many students fail to develop essential comprehension skills necessary to be successful in school and in their future endeavors. Improving literacy skills relies on the availability of good assessments that can be used to target instruction. The goal of this project is to further develop a comprehensive computerized test battery that assesses the ability of middle and high school students in processing all levels of written and spoken language. Development of the battery for high school...

In this project, the researchers aimed to develop a new comprehensive, computerized language assessment battery, called the Comprehensive Assessment of Reading and Listening (CARL) test. CARL was organized according to psycholinguistic principles and used to assess the comprehension problems of older readers (students in grades 7 to 10). Informing this measure was the observation that older struggling readers fail to read well for variety of reasons including difficulties at the word, senten...