The history of the college reading improvement program is traced and summarized from 1915 to 1970. The major factors which influenced and shaped the development during 5 decades are listed. During the period from 1920 to 1929, reading tests, tachistoscopes, workbooks, and eye cameras became readily available. From 1930 to 1939, the advent of…

The Auditory Reading Development Systems (ARDS) was devised to meet the educational needs of a segment of the model cities population that had not been reached by other programs. The ARDS is geared to teach the student whose reading level is 0.0 through 3.9, then 3.9 through 6.9, then 7.0 through 8.9. The target population is reached through…

Reports on the American Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation's "Press to Read" campaign, and on literacy projects initiated by a variety of newspapers. (JAD)

Written so that the reader participates almost as if in a game, this book is aimed at achieving five goals: reading faster, understanding better, remembering longer, learning more easily, and thinking more clearly. Chapters discuss the following: (1) reading dynamics; (2) Evelyn Wood; (3) how to increase reading speed; (4) how to increase…

In view of the fact that vocational education students want only the essentials of the reading curriculum, the reading center at Eastern New Mexico University (Roswell) began a program of direct vocabulary building. This method stresses application of words to be learned, making them function for the learner, as well as a high interest factor.…

This volume contains selections from the first, second, and third yearbooks of the Southwest Reading Conference for Colleges and Universities. Articles discuss various aspects of college reading programs, including program establishment and administration, recent research on college reading, student reaction, vocabulary development, evaluation of…

The title of this volume was the theme of the sixth annual meeting of the Southwest Reading Conference for Colleges and Universities, held in December 1956. Authors of the eleven reports on successful college and adult reading programs focused on various aspects of the programs, including academic performance, program evaluation, faculty, public…

The purpose of this investigation was to study the effects of a multimedia program of vocabulary development on the reading achievement of adults. An experimental and a control group were randomly chosen from Air Force personnel enrolled in the Prep remedial reading program. The instruments used in this study were: The United States Armed Service…

A college-level reading center program was adapted for use in helping a group of state employees improve their reading skills. This paper explains how the program originated and describes program procedures (including diagnosis, the determination of individual and course objectives, record keeping, class format, and class presentations) materials…

This yearbook contains the papers presented at the third annual meeting of the Southwest Reading Conference for Colleges and Universities as well as additional articles of interest written by members. Topics considered: reading in the college curriculum, evaluation of the tachistoscope in reading improvement programs, recent research relative to…

The evolvement of the reading improvement program at Wayne State University is traced from its conception in 1941 to the present services being offered students and community residents. This description is divided into seven parts: development of the program, the current group program, the reading laboratory, evaluation of the student program,…

Reading programs for special admit college students were developed and included 13 skills: reading for main ideas and supporting details, noting sequence and development of main ideas and supporting details, developing flexibility in reading, underlining, summarizing, synthesis of several sources, critical reading, comparison and contrast of…

The report drawn from the first annual conference that was designed to provide professional dialogue for those interested in the improvement of college reading programs, this volume contains seven papers that deal with the following topics: the role of literary criticism and rhetoric in developing new models of reading comprehension, a pilot…

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…

This yearbook contains the papers presented at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the North Central Reading Association. The titles and authors of the papers included are: "Speed Reading vs. Effective Developmental Reading" by Lester Van Gilder; "Counseling and Reading, Their Interrelationship" by Boyd Jackson; "Recent Research in College and Adult…