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KLING, MARTIN – 1967
TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-EIGHT COLLEGE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN A DEVELOPMENTAL READING PROGRAM PARTICIPATED IN A STUDY TO EXPLORE THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN VALUES, READING RATE, AND THE COMPREHENSION GAINS MADE IN DEVELOPMENTAL READING PROGRAMS BY COLLEGE STUDENTS. STUDENTS MET VOLUNTARILY FOR A TOTAL OF 16 HOURS OF INSTRUCTION. THE NELSON-DENNY READING…
Descriptors: College Programs, Reading Comprehension, Reading Development, Reading Improvement
Hultgren, Dayton; Crewe, James – 1968
A personnel services model program for the university student-athlete was developed 4 years ago by the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and the Student Counseling Bureau at the University of Minnesota. The service is preventive in emphasis, developmental in philosophy, and individualized in operation. The reading and educational skills…
Descriptors: Athletics, College Programs, Corrective Reading, Counseling Services
Peer reviewedOlsen, Turee; Swiss, Thom – Journal of Reading, 1976
Reviews the literature in the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) on college reading programs. (RB)
Descriptors: College Programs, Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Program Descriptions
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 reviewedNarang, H. L. – Reading World, 1973
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Bibliographies, College Programs, Instructional Materials
Maxwell, Martha J. – 1968
A program for skimming and scanning improvement was developed from college textbook material selected from social sciences, science, and essays and included a section on scanning bibliographies and indexes. Four types of exercises were written for each selection: skimming for the main idea, scanning for details, scanning for words and phrases, and…
Descriptors: College Programs, Reading Improvement, Reading Programs, Reading Rate
Peer reviewedTillman, Chester E. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1973
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, College Programs, Grade Point Average, Reading Improvement
Mason, Ronald B. – 1993
Descriptions of selected college reading improvement programs (most of which were begun in the 1920s or 1930s) reveals that with the exception of increased standardization in the areas of administrative concerns, little seems new. Reviewing the cases of seven college reading improvement programs (Harvard, Hamline, Amherst, University of Chicago,…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational History, Higher Education, Program Descriptions
Download full textInstitute for Services to Education, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1974
As a part of the Institute for Services to Education's (ISE) continuing effort to revise the curriculum and pedagogy of the Thirteen-College Curriculum Program (TCCP), the English staff of ISE brought reading specialists from the consortia schools together during the 1972 summer conference to examine the relationship of reading to TCCP. An…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Programs, Conference Reports, Curriculum Development
Moran, Patrick J. – 1980
At the University of California, Riverside, a structured, formal adjunct program coordinated with large introductory courses has been developed to improve students' reading and study skills. The program uses adjunct instructors who are specialists in reading and study skills and who are familiar with the content areas. Skills taught include time…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Programs, Content Area Reading, Developmental Programs
Peer reviewedPhillips, George O., Sr. – Reading World, 1972
Descriptors: College Programs, Curriculum Guides, Developmental Reading, Open Enrollment
Causey, Oscar S., Ed. – 1953
This document contains papers from the 1952 Southwest Reading Conference for Colleges and Universities. Included are such papers as "Recent Research in Reading on the College Level" by Emery Bliesmer; "Assessing Student Reaction to a College Developmental Reading Program" by A. J. Kingston, Jr.; "Vocabulary Development in…
Descriptors: College Programs, Conference Reports, Developmental Reading, Higher Education
Blai, Boris, Jr. – 1970
Harcum Junior College has offered a reading development program for freshmen since September, 1966. Incoming freshmen who score below 30th percentile rank on the Nelson-Denny Reading Test are required to enroll in this program. To evaluate gains made by 51 September, 1970 freshmen who completed the program, the Nelson-Denny pretest and post-test…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Programs, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedColvin, Charles R. – Reading World, 1972
Descriptors: College Programs, Films, Lecture Method, Programed Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedRauch, Sidney J. – Reading World, 1971
Descriptors: College Programs, Independent Study, Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Activities
