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Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1975
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Measurement Instruments, Readability
Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1975
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Measurement Instruments, Readability
Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Argues that the Degrees of Reading Power test is not a valid tool for its main purpose, matching students to appropriate texts, because the test's units of text difficulty are not uniformly comparable to the test's units used to reflect a reader's ability. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P.; Leibert, Robert E. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1995
Investigates whether reading ability improves when students read relatively easy library books. Compares reading achievement of students in grades three, four, and five who read books at either above or below their reading level. Finds no evidence that either group gained in reading ability. Notes that later empirical evidence indicated no actual…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Readability, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1983
Results of a study of the reading rate of 435 students varying from grade four through college support the theory that individuals typically read at a constant rate rather than adjusting their rate to the difficulty level of the material. (AEA)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Readability, Reading Rate
Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1976
Finds no support for a widely-held theory relating redundancy to reading rate and eye movements. (Author/RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Eye Movements, Higher Education, Readability
Download full textCarver, Ronald P. – 1968
In a series of three experiments involving 104 individuals, the effect of chunking sentences (the spatial separation of sentences into small groups of meaningfully related words) upon the reading rate and comprehension of mature readers was investigated. Passages and questions from a standardized reading test were displayed via an…
Descriptors: College Students, Language Patterns, Linguistics, Readability
Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P.; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1971
Concludes that cloze tests as measure of comprehension includes a large component of variance specific to cloze technique and ability to comprehend speeded speech involves ability to be field independent. (MM)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Ability, Factor Analysis, Listening Comprehension
Carver, Ronald P. – 1974
A standardized method, called programed prose, has been developed which can be used to automatically convert prose training material into a form which forces trainees to read the material with at least a minimal level of comprehension. From the results of a series of experimental studies, it was concluded that programed prose facilitates learning…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Measurement Techniques, Readability, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1984
Concludes that individuals can read unfamiliar but relatively easy material at high rates with high accuracy of comprehension, but they do not provide strong support for rauding theory. (FL)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Theories, Predictive Validity, Readability
