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Peer reviewedCall, Patricia E. – Reading World, 1977
Describes a survey which sought to determine and analyze the status, current practices, and philosophies of existing college reading improvement programs in West Virginia. (JM)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Programs, Reading Research
Peer reviewedAnderson, William W. – Reading World, 1975
Discusses some of the outstanding and significant research in recent years relating to the problems of evaluating college reading and study skills programs and the implications for improvement. (RB)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Reading Programs
Peer reviewedMazurkiewicz, Albert J. – Reading World, 1974
Discusses what studies of i.t.a. throughout the past eleven years have revealed for teachers and researchers in the field of reading. (TO)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Reading Instruction, Reading Materials
Peer reviewedSanteusanio, Richard P. – Reading World, 1974
After reviewing the literature on college reading study-skills programs, concludes that the effectiveness of such programs is not established and many of them are not serving the designed purpose. (RB)
Descriptors: College Programs, Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Reading Programs
Peer reviewedMason, George E.; And Others – Reading World, 1978
Discusses study which sought to determine the nature and extent (specifically, the credit, enrollment, faculty involvement, and support for the institution) of reading improvement programs in the larger senior colleges and universities in the United States. (JM)
Descriptors: College Programs, Higher Education, Program Content, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedRupley, William H.; Blair, Timothy – Reading World, 1977
Explores research studies and effective reading programs that are based on the concept of first identifying effective reading teachers in terms of students' reading achievement and then considering instructional strategies that could account for the students' achievement. (JM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Predictor Variables, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedChaplin, Miriam T. – Reading World, 1977
Discusses a survey of college reading programs and offers suggestions for future planning concerning such reading programs. (JM)
Descriptors: College Programs, Higher Education, National Surveys, Program Development
Peer reviewedHunter, Jill S. – Reading World, 1984
Provides an overview of the types of reading programs found in four-year colleges, shows what research says about the different strategies used by good and poor readers in comprehending material, and reviews several existing university programs that are successful in providing instruction in these important reading and learning strategies. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedNist, Sherrie L. – Reading World, 1983
Discusses research related to the relationship between interest in reading materials and reading achievement. (FL)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Program Effectiveness, Reading Attitudes, Reading Interests
Peer reviewedHall, Mary Anne; Ramig, Christopher J. – Reading World, 1980
A study of 46 first-grade children to determine how basal instructed and language experience instructed children would differ in their use of written language cues revealed no significant differences between the two groups in their use of these cues. (TJ)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Language Experience Approach, Miscue Analysis
Peer reviewedPutnam, Lillian R.; Youtz, Adella C. – Reading World, 1972
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Primary Education
Peer reviewedBegy, Gerald L.; Cahill, Kathy – Reading World, 1978
Reports on a study to ascertain whether or not the ability of kindergarten children to segment oral language into separate words increased when they had used the Modified Rebus Reading Readiness Program (uses pictorial representatives of words) instead of a traditional reading readiness program. Significant differences did appear. (TJ)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Kindergarten Children, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedNewman, Harold – Reading World, 1971
Contains a list of 217 references, mostly texts, and a topical guide of 15 major areas in reading education for use in a variety of ways by students, professors, and librarians. (VJ)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Bibliographies, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedColvin, Charles R. – Reading World, 1972
Descriptors: College Programs, Films, Lecture Method, Programed Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedHeerman, Charles E. – Reading World, 1983
Concludes that greater attention must be paid to program evaluation, differential treatment models must be identified that address sequence of treatment within a semester and across several semesters, and reading research must be reconceptualized along the lines of retention research if college reading instruction is to be effective. (FL)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Predictor Variables, Program Effectiveness
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