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Young, Dorothy June – 1975
This study was concerned with the investigation of those factors or combinations of factors which are predictive of success in reading under four methods of teaching beginning reading. The total population of 114 kindergarten children in a semirural, middle-class city in the Southwest were selected for the study. It was concluded that the most…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Doctoral Dissertations, Kindergarten Children, Predictor Variables
Joy, Charles Paul, Sr. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of an automated programed instructional unit under varying conditions. Students' sex and socioeconomic status as an influence on achievement when interacting with the intervention was investigated along with other facts. The selected literature included a review of representative samples…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Predictor Variables, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness
Landy, Sarah – 1977
This study investigated the relative importance of the major factors associated with the habit of reading or nonreading. Some 2,731 seventh-grade students were the subjects of the study; from these, 487 were identified as either readers or nonreaders, and, from this group, 22 students were selected for additional in-depth case studies. From over…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Junior High Schools, Masters Theses, Predictor Variables
