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Assessing reading and language skills: An interactive system

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    Robert Calfee, Janet Spector & Dorothy Piontkowski

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Portions of the work reported herein were supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation. The Interactive Reading Assessment System was originally developed as part of the Stanford Reading Diary Study. We have benefited from the continuing assistance of several associates: Kathryn Hoover Calfee, Patricia Elias, Frederick McDonald, Barbara Tanner, and Barbara Tingey. Finally, our thanks to Jay Thorp for her skilled help in preparing this article. This paper was presented at the 29th Annual Conference of The Orton Society in Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 1978.

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Calfee, R., Spector, J. & Piontkowski, D. Assessing reading and language skills: An interactive system. Bulletin of the Orton Society 29, 129–156 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02653739

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