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Bimmel, Peter E.; van den Bergh, Huub; Oostdam, Ron J. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2001
Presents a study, focusing on 15-year old students, that demonstrates how an experimental reading program improved students' abilities using four reading activities: (1) looking for key fragments, (2) paying attention to structure marking elements, (3) making up questions, and (4) mapping important information from a text. Demonstrates an…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dutch, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
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Mazur-Stewart, Marianne; DeMedio, Dwayne L. – Ohio Reading Teacher, 1990
Studies the middle level reading programs in the midwestern states to determine which areas received the most emphasis within five separate categories: instruction, approach, comprehension, materials, and activities. Finds that typical midwestern reading programs focus primarily on developmental instruction, emphasize a traditional skills approach…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools, Program Content
Reed, Linda, Ed.; Ward, Spencer, Ed. – 1982
Resulting from a project involving district, state, and federal educational agencies, the papers in this, the second of two volumes, are intended to provide information from research and practice that can help school districts in their efforts to make decisions about goals and methods of basic skills instruction. The topics of the papers in the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education