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Peer reviewedAhrendt, Kenneth M. – Reading Improvement, 1971
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Attendance, Homework, Program Descriptions
Philippi, Jorie W. – 1988
For almost half a century the United States military services have incorporated formal literacy programs into job training for those enlistees who are less than fully qualified. Over the years, several successful job-specific reading programs have evolved. In 1975, the Army began the Functional Literacy (FLIT) Program, a program based on a…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Enlisted Personnel, Functional Literacy, Job Training
Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1975
This catalog of reading programs is a result of an intensive search by the American Institutes for Research of reading programs in operation across the nation, followed by computer evaluation of the findings. Although the principal objective of the research was to produce multimedia inservice packages for reading teachers which demonstrate twelve…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Developmental Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Models
Bliesmer, Emery P., Ed.; Kingston, Albert J., Jr., Ed. – 1961
Focusing on phases of college and other adult reading programs, the papers in this volume were drawn from the tenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1960. Among the topics discussed in the 15 papers are the following: reading improvement in government, contributions of education to college and adult reading, the influence…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Higher Education
Thurston, Eric L., Ed.; Hafner, Lawrence E., Ed. – 1964
Focusing on new concepts in college reading, the papers in this volume were drawn from the thirteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1963. The 20 papers are grouped into three sections, the first of which contains descriptions and evaluations of reading programs, a study of methods of training teachers for the…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Higher Education
Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1967
Focusing on expanding fields in junior college and adult reading programs, the 35 articles in this volume were drawn from the sixteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1966. Among the topics discussed in the articles are the following: an interdisciplinary approach to the identification and remediation of severe reading…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Educational Technology
Greene, Frank P., Ed. – 1971
Focusing on the right to read, the articles in this volume were drawn from the twentieth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1970. Among the topics discussed in the 50 articles are the following: oral associates as predictors of verbal ability, reading readiness, the reading process, reading diagnosis, adult reading programs,…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1968
Focusing on multidisciplinary aspects of college and adult reading, the 27 articles in this volume were drawn from the seventeenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1967. Among the topics discussed in the articles are the following: psychological embarrassments of reading, rapid reading, reading rate, tutoring in a college…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading
Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1970
This is the first of two volumes containing papers focusing on reading processes and pedagogy that were drawn from the nineteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1969. Among the topics discussed in the 42 papers are the following: underlining, individualized reading instruction, reading improvement programs in industry…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Critical Reading
