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Peer reviewedKelly, Leonard P. – Exceptional Children, 1995
This study compared 18 high-ability and average-ability secondary level deaf readers on 5 indicators of cognitive processes used during reading. Results indicated significant differences between groups on measures of fluency. However, intergroup similarities in processes suggest that these components do not determine reading superiority.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deafness, Reading Ability, Reading Skills
Peer reviewedBiemiller, Andrew; Siegel, Linda S. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1997
This study compared the "Bridge" experimental reading program and whole language instruction with 106 economically disadvantaged first graders at risk for reading difficulties. The "Bridge" program uses icons or picture symbols to facilitate print word identification. The "Bridge" group performed significantly better…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Economically Disadvantaged, Grade 1
Peer reviewedTraweek, Dean; Berninger, Virginia – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1997
This study compared two beginning reading programs, Integrated Reading-Writing (IR-W) and DISTAR in comparable urban schools with students "at risk" for literacy problems. Although the two programs resulted in comparable gains in word recognition and overall reading achievement by the end of first grade, children in IR-W tended to…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Early Intervention, Educationally Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedMcKenna, Michael C.; And Others – Educational Researcher, 1990
Examines the current rift in perspective between whole language arts and traditional language arts instruction by analyzing the basis of each view in research and theory. Suggests research developments that might alleviate the present impasse. Describes the need for new hypotheses, a variety of designs, improved instrumentation, and collaborative…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Educational Theories
Peer reviewedTindal, Gerald; Marston, Douglas – Exceptionality, 1996
Two studies focused on concurrent validity and instructional decision making in using alternative reading measures with elementary regular and special education students. The first study examined the relation of oral reading performance to several other reading measures; the second study investigated teacher decision making, using quantitative and…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Concurrent Validity, Decision Making, Elementary Education
PDF pending restorationFreppon, Penny A. – 1993
This study described ways in which two groups of urban, low-socioeconomic children remained the same and differed after a transition year in skills-based curriculum and a continuing year in whole language curriculum. Both groups had experienced whole language instruction in the first two years in kindergarten and first grade. This investigation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis
Download full textNational-Louis Univ., Evanston, IL. – 1995
This document contains 33 papers from a conference on research in adult, continuing, and community education. Representative papers include the following: "Highlander Folk School: A Commune Based on Intellectual Property" (Keith B. Armstrong, Donna J. Martin); "Women, Welfare and Mandated Education: An Analysis of Single Mothers'…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
