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Minkoff, Henry – College Management, 1974
Hunter College has set up a Reading Resource Center where students receive individualized help in specific problem areas not covered in their reading classes and where teachers can find materials either for their own edification or for use in the classroom. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Higher Education, Learning Laboratories, Reading
Peer reviewedAuten, Anne – Journal of Reading, 1981
Reviews materials from the ERIC database describing the variety of functions a high school reading lab can perform and suggesting ways to evaluate student improvement in the reading lab situation. (MKM)
Descriptors: High Schools, Learning Laboratories, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation
Utka, Joseph Michael – 1975
The purpose of this study was to examine whether or not a reading laboratory, as defined by Educational Developmental Laboratories (EDL), is an effective means of teaching reading to Title I children, grades two through six, in the two Title I schools of an eastern Massachusetts community. Three hundred subjects participated in the study. There…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Learning Laboratories, Reading Achievement
Webster, Lois P.; Huffman, Ruth E. – 1983
Learning centers are student centered. That is, instructional goals are matched to learner needs and desires and student learning is self-paced. Teachers coordinate the learning process while students explore and experiment with learning materials. The learning center has several advantages over the traditional classroom: (1) it is success…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Elementary Education
Ganikos, Mary; And Others – 1980
The individualized developmental reading laboratory program described in this monograph was designed to supplement regular reading instruction in grades four and five. Information is provided on the instructional procedures used in the program, with emphasis on instruction given through teacher comments written in individual students' folders.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction, Intermediate Grades, Learning Laboratories
Peer reviewedPitts, Sandra K. – Reading Horizons, 1985
Describes the reading and writing laboratory program at the University of Albuquerque. (FL)
Descriptors: College Programs, Higher Education, Integrated Activities, Learning Laboratories
Enright, Gwyn, Ed. – 1979
The articles in this publication cover a variety of topics related to college reading instruction. The topics of the twenty-two papers include the following: (1) innovation in audio-visual vocabulary programs, (2) a survey of learning centers/laboratories in Hawaii, (3) a summer program for high risk readers, (4) oral reading tests and black…
Descriptors: Computers, Conference Papers, Higher Education, Learning Laboratories
Download full textArter, Rhetta M. – 1972
The Parent Leadership Training Project (PLTP) through Adult Basic Education was established as a two-year demonstration project designed to increase the reading skills of adults (16 and over) through a language-experience approach, using topics selected by the participants. The independent project evaluation covers the entire operational period…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Objectives
Holladay, Joanne; McGinty, Denise – 1978
In response to the expressed needs of students for preparation materials and classes relevant to graduate entrance examinations, a course designed to provide a review of math topics was created as part of a reading and study skills laboratory. Reading specialists are able to interface math teaching with their varied training in diagnosis,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Diagnostic Teaching, Higher Education, Learning Laboratories
Platt, Gail M. – 1992
An assessment of the activities of the Learning Center (LC) at South Plains College is provided in this 1991-92 annual report. Introductory material describes the scope of the LC's operations, including reading and study skills remediation, developmental communications instruction, collegiate instruction in reading and human development, peer…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Learning Laboratories, Learning Resources Centers
Batchelder, Arthur J. – 1975
A survey of the literature indicates that the adult reading student requires instruction based on perceptual, skill-learning principles, rather than on the analytical framework used for the instruction of elementary school reading students. This document proposes a systematic method of organizing a community college reading center to meet the…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Audiovisual Aids, Autoinstructional Aids, Community Colleges
Tompkins, John F. – 1983
Over 600 students were served by the Reading/Mathematics Lab Program of the Des Moines (Iowa) Independent Community School District. Students enrolled in the mathematics lab at all grade levels attained an increase in mean percentile rank from pre- to post-testing as measured by the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills administered in October 1982 and again…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Block Grants, Budgets
