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Direct linkGao, Tao; Zhao, Junfeng; Dou, Kai; Wang, Yujie; Li, Xiaoming; Harrison, Sayward E. – School Psychology International, 2018
This study used a quasi-experimental design to investigate the impact of Rapid Reading Skills Training (RRST) on some reading outcomes for primary school students in central China and also examined the influence of cognitive flexibility on intervention outcomes. A sample of 108 students (mean age = 11.75 years) were recruited. Students' cognitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quasiexperimental Design, Reading Skills, Speed Reading
Download full textAbdelrahman, Mahmoud Sulaiman Hamad Bani; Bsharah, Muwafaq Saleem – English Language Teaching, 2014
This study aimed to find the effect of speed reading strategies on developing reading comprehension among second secondary literary stream students in English language. The sample of the study consists of (42) students assigned into two groups who were chosen randomly from schools, a controlled group (21) students, and an experimental (21)…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedOtto, Wayne – Journal of Reading, 1985
Describes a study conducted by Ron Carver that compared the reading rate and comprehension of speed readers with superior readers. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1985
Investigates the reading rate and comprehension of a total of 16 individuals who represented four superior reading groups: speed readers, professionals, college students, and people who scored exceptionally high on tests. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedWepner, Shelley B.; And Others – Journal of Developmental Education, 1989
Compares gains in reading rate and comprehension of students using traditional texts and those using a computer-based, commercially prepared, speed reading package. Offers recommendations for the use of computers in college reading courses, focusing on hardware/software needs and student/teacher responsibilities. (DMM)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
Peer reviewedViitaniemi, Eero – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1983
Reports the methodology used to measure the reading ability of third and fourth grade pupils in Finnish "comprehensive" schools in 1964 and 1979. Notes that 1979 students had significantly higher abilities in all areas measured, despite decreases in standard deviations. Interprets results in the light of acceleration theory. (SB)
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Irausquin, Rosemarie S.; Drent, Jeanine; Verhoeven, Ludo – Annals of Dyslexia, 2005
The effects of computer-presented automatization exercises in a group of 14 poor readers were assessed in comparison to a matched control group of 14 poor readers that received computer-presented exercises aimed at the use of context for word identification and comprehension. Training took place three sessions a week for 15 minutes per session and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Speed Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
