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Hendon, Carl Adriel – 1975
The purpose of this study was to compare student reading and vocabulary achievement of classes using a standard basal-reading series with the achievement of a class using the same standard basal-reading series and a computer-managed, teacher-support system in reading. The reading and vocabulary achievement growth of a sample of 40 classes of…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
Teigland, Anna Elizabeth; And Others – 1971
The criteria used to compare the effectiveness of the individualized and basal reader approaches in this study were based on vocabulary, comprehension, and attitude toward reading as well as the number, type, and difficulty of books voluntarily read during second grade. Near the end of kindergarten, children in three schools were randomly assigned…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading
Crandall, Audrey Hackett – 1973
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there were significant differences in the reading attitude and reading achievement of first grade children in open concept classes which utilized an individualized language experience approach to reading as compared to children who were instructed in basal series in more formal classes. The…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1
Effects of the introduction of programed readers on teacher behavior and attitudes and on student achievement were considered at the early primary school level. The Webster-McGraw-Hill series of programed readers was included in the curriculum of an experimental group of first through third grade classes while a comparable control group used a…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Conventional Instruction, Course Evaluation
Gleason, Gerald T. – 1970
A 3-year study with 359 pupils compared individualized reading instruction with basal reading instruction. Twenty-eight first-grade classrooms were paired (individualized and basal), and teachers received prior instruction for working in the experiment. Pupils remained together in their various classes and treatment groups for the 3-year period,…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Individualized Reading, Longitudinal Studies
JOHNSON, RODNEY H.; AND OTHERS
AN INTERIM REPORT OF A 3-YEAR LONGITUDINAL STUDY COMPARING INDIVIDUALIZED AND BASAL READING PROGRAMS AT THE PRIMARY LEVEL BY THE LAKESHORE WISCONSIN CURRICULUM STUDY COUNCIL IS PRESENTED. DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO MATERIALS, PROCEDURES, GROUPING, AND SEQUENCE AS INTEGRAL PARTS OF THE READING PROGRAM WERE EXAMINED. INDIVIDUALIZED READING WAS DEFINED…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Comparative Analysis, Experimental Groups
Stauffer, Russell G., Ed. – 1967
Twenty-seven summaries of first-grade reading studies sponsored by the United States Office of Education are included. The studies, done in the 1964-65 school year, were made in different localities, and each was concerned with a different problem. More than one-half of the directors were full-time college professors; a few were senior authors of…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 1