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Information Resources, Inc.. a major provider of marketing research information through its store tracking service involving a huge range of consumer packaged goods, with analysis and insights relevant to sales, market share, distribution, pricing, as well as advertising and promotion; also maintains a huge database on individual consumer purchase behavior, because it collects, analyzes, and interprets a wide array of data on all aspects of consumer behavior through tracking the more than 55,000 household consumers who make up a panel. Company brands include InfoScan (store tracking) and BehaviorScan (consumer behavior tracking).

Informal reading inventory. a common instrument to assess reading skills, which may contain a word-recognition inventory, oral reading passages, silent reading passages, and comprehension questions to accompany the passages.

informal reading inventory. the use of a graded series of passages of increasing difficulty to determine students' strengths, weaknesses, and strategies in word identification and comprehension.

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Interactive radio instruction. a system of educational radio broadcasts, intended for reinforcing learning in classroom settings, which contain instructions to teachers and learners to engage in some activity related to the broadcast and to actively respond to what they are hearing.

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