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Download full textSticht, Thomas G. – 1968
This experiment was designed to determine the relative effects of speech rate and signal distortion due to the time-compression process on listening comprehension. In addition, linguistic factors--including sequencing of random words into story form, and inflection and phraseology--were qualitatively considered for their effects on listening…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Educational Research, Higher Education, Language Patterns
Sticht, Thomas G.; And Others – 1974
This report describes an auding and reading model that accounts for the development of receptive oracy and literacy skills. The model presents a classification scheme for the development of reading and auding skills which considers basic adaptive processes, languaging precursors, and languaging processes. Four hypotheses consistent with the model…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Educational Research, Listening Skills, Literacy
Caylor, John S.; Sticht, Thomas G. – 1973
The FORCAST readability index was developed and cross validated on technical job reading materials and job candidates. Several structural properties of passages were related to passage readability defined as the lowest measured reading grade level at which half the readers met a standard cloze criterion on the passage. The simple, single variable…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Armed Forces, Job Skills, Measurement Instruments
Peer reviewedSticht, Thomas G.; Kern, Richard P. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1970
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Armed Forces, Federal Programs, Job Skills
Sticht, Thomas G.; And Others – 1973
The major purposes of the project were to determine the nature of the literacy problem in the Army by studying the literacy demands of Army jobs together with the literacy skills of Army personnel, and to develop a literacy training program to provide job-related-functional, literacy skills. Literacy research and development performed by HumRRO…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Armed Forces, Educational Research, Functional Literacy
Sticht, Thomas G.; And Others – 1971
Work Unit REALISTIC was undertaken by the Human Resources Research Organization to provide information concerning demands for reading, listening, and arithmetic skills in selected military occupational specialties and to provide information relevant to the matching of personnel literacy skills to job demands for such skils. This report describes…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Arithmetic, Armed Forces, Diagnostic Tests
Sticht, Thomas G. – 2001
Since thousands of the men who entered military service during World War II were illiterate, the Army developed an "Army Reader," a four-part series featuring Private Pete, that led learners through literacy levels 1-4. Part 1 introduced Private Pete and talked about the things the men experienced when they entered the Army. Part 2…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Armed Forces
