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Thorndyke, Perry W.; Hayes-Roth, Barbara – 1979
This report documents a series of studies on how undergraduate students learn from and reason with textual information. The studies described were undertaken to produce models that could serve as the basis for designing computer systems capable of structuring and presenting text material in optimal formats. Divided into sections, the report…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Directed Reading Activity, Higher Education
Garty, Roberta H. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the study of organizers, directed reading activity (DRA) and SQ3R, on the immediate and delayed recall of social studies materials. Eighty-four seventh-grade students from an intermediate school participated in this study. The results of the study indicated that the DRA technique was an…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Directed Reading Activity, Grade 7, Junior High Schools
Light, Timothy – Engl Lang Teaching, 1970
The author challenges the usefulness of the "reading-comprehension passage" in teaching English to speakers of other languages and suggests alternative methods. (FWB)
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, English (Second Language), Language Learning Levels, Language Tests
Beck, Isabel L. – 1984
The following assumptions motivated this monograph's analysis of commercial based reading programs: (1) basals represent the state of the art in reading instruction; (2) to offer suggestions for improvement of instruction, existing practices must be understood in detail; and (3) information about instruction contained in the literature at large or…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Vocabulary, Content Analysis, Curriculum Enrichment
Herr, Selma E. – 1966
After a consideration of the causes of ineffective reading, this publication presents organized lessons (including 50 reading selections) for improving adult reading skills, and specific suggestions for securing the main idea, developing word power, developing such skills as skimming, following directions, visualization, and perceptual ideas, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Critical Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Evaluation Methods
Taschow, Horst Gerard – 1969
A model of the decoding process as utilized in silent reading on the college level was reported. The model was conceptualized as a pyramid, whose apex represented silent reading comprehension. The body of the total reading model rested on the foundations of basic reading skills and higher-level reading skills which were followed by tentative…
Descriptors: College Students, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Models
Collingwood, Madeline Duckworth – 1972
This study was a follow-up of a three year longitudinal study of factors affecting learning to read. It examined the efficacy of four different approaches to beginning reading instruction on subsequent reading achievement in grade four. Major purposes were to determine what effect maturation and exposure to a non-experimental typical grade four…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Developmental Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Doctoral Dissertations
Rauch, Sidney J., Comp. – 1969
This handbook is designed for tutors who will be working with children, adolescents, or adults. In most instances the principles, practices, and materials described are directed to the junior high and senior high school student or dropout who requires special reading help; however, application of techniques can be made to adults or to youngsters…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Decoding (Reading), Directed Reading Activity, Elementary School Students