Two Factors Contributing to Elementary School Teachers' Predictions of Students' Scores on the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test, Level D

The prediction by 13 elementary school teachers of 214 students' achievement in Grades 4 to 6 on the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test, Level D was examined. Although teachers were generally good predictors of students' achievement in reading, predictions were affected by various factors related to students and teachers. Female teachers, but not male teachers, tended to overestimate the number of correct responses by girls and underestimate that by boys. A similar trend was evident for inexperienced teachers. When they overestimated, male teachers and inexperienced teachers tended to overestimate more.

Visual Motor Ability in Normal and Disabled Readers

A group of 42 third graders were grouped equally into sequentially deficient, simultaneously deficient, and normal readers based on their performance on Boder Reading and Spelling Pattern Test and Gates-Macginitie Reading Test. The subjects were then administered Bender Visual-motor Gestalt Test. There were significant differences among the three groups; the simultaneous-deficient group committed the most errors on the Bender test. The results were related to reading.