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Santeusanio, Richard P. – 1974
The major purpose of this study was to relate individual differences among selected Suffolk University freshmen to their ability to succeed academically through a reading study skills course which utilized a teacher-directed approach and a student-directed approach. The subject were 87 students from a freshman class who had graduated in the bottom…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Directed Reading Activity, Higher Education, Individualized Reading
Shrauger, Virginia Moore – 1975
Ideas to be understood and to be remembered must be organized. To organize ideas the reader must recognize the relationship of the parts of the ideas, to one another and to the whole. The reader with no orderly set of the ideas presented on the printed page cannot carry on a dialogue with the author and profit from the reading experience. What did…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Instruction, Critical Reading, Directed Reading Activity
Cope, Jo Ann – 1975
A four-week course in reading comprehension which attempts to provide students with a repertoire of techniques to use when they encounter difficult reading passages is described in this paper. At the end of the course, students must demonstrate their ability to skim a short reading passage and write a one-sentence summary of its central theme and…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Developmental Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Higher Education