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Download full textNational Center for Health Statistics (DHEW/PHS), Hyattsville, MD. – 1973
This report presents information on the extent of illiteracy among American youths as assessed by a test specially constructed for this purpose and administered as part of the Health Examination Survey during 1966-70. The test consisted of two parts, one focusing on reading ability and a second one on writing. For the purposes of this report, if a…
Descriptors: Illiteracy, Junior High Schools, Reading, Reading Ability
Massey, Randy H.; Mathews, John J. – 1980
A study was conducted to examine the reading levels of United States Air Force civilian employees according to occupational groupings and grade structure. Approximately 1,050 Air Force civilian subjects were tested on the Nelson-Denny Reading Test or the California Reading Test. Subjects were selected from eight Air Force bases representing the…
Descriptors: Adults, Government Employees, Job Skills, Occupations
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1997
Research has shown that reading ability is positively correlated with the extent to which students read recreationally. Educators are increasingly encouraging their students to read and write on their own, outside of school. Changes in the frequency with which students (in grades 4, 8, and 11 in studies conducted from 1984 through 1994) read and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Habits, Reading Material Selection
Binkley, Marilyn, Ed.; Rust, Keith, Ed. – 1994
This technical report covers almost every aspect of the United States component of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement's (IEA) International Reading Literacy Study, from the inception of the project to the production of the reports. The report notes that since much has already been learned from studies such…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Grade 4, Grade 9, Intermediate Grades
National Assessment of Educational Progress, Princeton, NJ. – 1993
The National Assessment of Educational Progress' (NAEP) 1992 reading assessment was administered to nationally representative samples of 4th-, 8th- and 12-grade students attending public and private schools, and to state representative public-school samples of 4th graders in 43 jurisdictions. In Colorado, 2,897 fourth-grade students in 122 public…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Public Schools
Louisiana State Dept. of Education, Baton Rouge. – 1998
This executive summary reports on the number of students not reading on grade level in all second and third grades throughout Louisiana. The report notes the provisions of the legislation that requires such data be generated, and discusses selection of the Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) as the uniform assessment instrument to be…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Grade 2, Grade 3, Primary Education
Peer reviewedMacdonald-Ross, Michael; Scott, Bernard – Open Learning, 1997
Analysis of reading tests (cloze and vocabulary) completed by first-year undergraduates at the Open University (Great Britain) demonstrated that many students in open-entry undergraduate programs have difficulty reading academic texts and that this difficulty has a negative impact on their success. (Contains 18 figures and six tables.) (PEN)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cloze Procedure, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
National Assessment of Educational Progress, Princeton, NJ. – 1994
This compendium presents the extensive range of data (including nearly 300 tables and 11 figures of data) collected in the National Assessment of Educational Progress' (NAEP's) 1992 Reading Assessment. Chapters 1 and 2 of the compendium present the data in the context of the National Assessment Governing Board achievement levels, showing what…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Family Life, Professional Development
Mercer, B. Jill – 1980
A three-phase study was conducted in Alberta, Canada, to determine factors influencing reading achievement and specifically to assess the effects of television viewing on reading achievement. In the first phase, 453 people responded to a survey regarding which factors they felt were important in influencing reading achievement. It was concluded…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Failure, Foreign Countries, Public Opinion
PDF pending restorationRakes, Thomas A.; McWilliams, Lana J. – 1979
A random sample of 300 seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students participated in a comparative study of performance on social studies cloze tests, social studies group reading inventories (GRI), and a popular standardized test (Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests, Survey E). It was found that cloze tests and GRIs constructed from social studies content…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Informal Reading Inventories
Bulcock, J. W.; Beebe, M. J. – 1980
The "primacy of reading" hypothesis as the explanation for the high correlation between children's competencies in literacy and numeracy is rejected in this paper. Instead, a "primacy of speech perception" hypothesis is examined. It is suggested that analysis-by-synthesis speech recognition procedures are acquired in early childhood and that the…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes
