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Download full textSchale, Florence – 1969
A preliminary study is reported which attempted to define gifted rapid readers, authenticate the performances of three subjects who were designated as gifted rapid readers, and explore the relationship of a subject's ability to perceive print eidetically and to read and/or skim. Volunteer subjects were a 15-year-old girl from the Philippines, a…
Descriptors: Eidetic Imagery, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Reading Rate
Schale, Florence – 1971
This study was based on the assumption that the average person should be able to grasp 14 words of pica type within the span of a half dollar. During the weekly Rapid Reading series, a cooperative venture of CBS-TV and the Northwestern University, a tachistoscopic challenge was presented to the audience. The training in rapid reading came through…
Descriptors: Educational Television, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Reinforcement
Schale, Florence C. – 1970
The "page-at-a-glance" reading phenomenon in two gifted readers using only monocular vision was investigated. The specific questions to be answered in this preliminary study were (1) What is the average duration of fixations made by gifted readers while reading a somewhat familiar article? and (2) What degree of comprehension on materials of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Eidetic Imagery, Gifted, Memory
