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Download full textCampbell, Richard W. – 1977
This practicum sought to improve reading vocabulary and comprehension in fourth-grade students by using comic books 30 minutes per day as a supplement to the regular basal reading program. High-interest comic books were used by a class section of 18 students in the experimental group, for a period of four months. Another class section of 20…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comics (Publications), Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Dugan, Virginia Dorris – 1976
Word recognition, factual recall, and inferential comprehension skills of 30 fifth-year students who had been in an open education classroom for four years were compared with similar skills of fifth-year pupils who had been in a traditional classroom for four years. Pupils had been placed in an open or traditional classroom by parental choice, but…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Open Education, Program Evaluation
Jensen, Barbara Hollowell – 1976
In this study to determine the effectiveness of an inservice training program in reading, subjects included 321 seventh- through ninth-grade students and 26 teachers of English, math, science, and social studies in one school in Wakulla County, Florida. The inservice plan included a summer workshop in which teacher competencies and educational…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Inservice Teacher Education
O'Connor, Edward R. – 1978
The impact of the Right to Read program in Spencer, Massachusetts, and the 11 other Massachusetts Charter communities was investigated in the following respects: to assess changes in teachers' perceptions toward the reading program, to compare the perceptions of school and community populations, to measure the amount of children's reading, to…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Evaluation
Elliott, Robert C. – 1975
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the value of familiarizing third grade teachers with specific reading skills and to describe the effects of their using the word-attack element of the Wisconsin Design for Reading Skills Development (WDRSD) as an instructional management system for improving the achievements in reading…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Doctoral Dissertations, Program Evaluation, Reading Achievement
Negley, Sandra Anne – 1976
The main purpose of this study was to determine and describe the effects of the comprehension component of the criterion-referenced reading program, Wisconsin Design for Reading Skills Development (WDRSD), on reading achievement and self-concept of sixth-grade students. Parametric techniques were employed in a quasi-experimental study involving 44…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Wilder, Dan Glen – 1976
Forty third-grade students who were reading below third-grade level and who were identified as educationally deprived participated in a study of the effectiveness of the TARMAC reading program. Twenty students were randomly selected for the experimental group; the other 20 served as a control. The Stanford Achievement Test was administered as a…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Doctoral Dissertations, Educationally Disadvantaged, Grade 3
