A Postal Survey of OU Students' Reading Skills.

Macdonald-Ross, Michael; Scott, Bernard

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ERIC Number: EJ547742

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Publication Date: 1997

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A Postal Survey of OU Students' Reading Skills.

Macdonald-Ross, Michael; Scott, Bernard

Open Learning, v12 n2 p29-40 Jun 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, Reading Ability, Reading Difficulties, Reading Research, Reading Tests, Student Surveys, Undergraduate Students

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Numerical/Quantitative Data; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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