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Download full textO'Reilly, Robert P.; Caswell, Ruth – 1992
Forty-three high school students (14 poor, 13 average, and 16 good readers) were given three different measures of memory capacity to determine if they differed in working memory, traditional memory span, and chunking capacity. Several experimental tasks followed to determine if differences in the memory factors were related to specific components…
Descriptors: High School Students, High Schools, Memory, Reading Comprehension
Movsesian, Edwin A. – Todays Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Listening Skills, Music Education, Music Reading
Birger, Barbara – 1989
A study compared performance on a silent informal reading inventory and achievement on a standardized reading test, focusing on students' individual skill needs and how effective tests were in identifying specific strengths and weaknesses in these skill areas. Subjects, 25 students entering fourth grade in a primarily middle class suburban…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 4, Informal Reading Inventories, Intermediate Grades
Fimiani, Guy T. – 1985
To determine why ninth grade students taking the "Minimum Basic Skills Test" (MBST) and the "California Achievement Test" (CAT) performed differently in relation to reading achievement, a study investigated whether the noted discrepencies in reading achievement on the tests were due to differences in vocabulary and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 9, Measures (Individuals), Readability
Olsen, Marilyn – 1989
A study (conducted in suburban central New Jersey using 218 second graders' California Achievement Test (CAT) scores from 1986-1988 compared the effectiveness of two well-known reading programs. Results indicated that although there was no statistically significant difference in the scores, the mean difference suggested that children who were…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 2, Instructional Material Evaluation
Zafirau, S. James – 1988
Fifth in a series of studies examining reading discrepancies in Cleveland, Ohio public schools, this report analyzed the spring 1986-1987 reading data so that accurate and usable information and recommendations would be available to decision-makers for related planning, curriculum design, and implementation functions of the district. Students in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools
BORMUTH, JOHN R. – 1966
IN AN EFFORT TO DEVELOP ACCURATE FORMULAS FOR PREDICTING AND CONTROLLING THE READABILITY OF LANGUAGE, FIVE BASIC PROBLEMS WERE STUDIED--(1) THE VARIOUS FEATURES OF WRITING STYLE AS LINEARLY RELATED TO COMPREHENSION DIFFICULTIES, (2) THE CHANGE OF STRENGTHS OF RELATIONSHIPS AS A FUNCTION OF READING ABILITY, (3) READABILITY PREDICTION MADE UPON…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Data Processing, Grade 4, Grade 5
