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Kling, Martin – 1967
A description and evaluation of the educational achievement of Job Corps trainees at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, during a 3-month period are given. Related literature is reviewed. Criteria fo" choosing camp enrollees are stated, and a comparison i s made of the Kilmer Corpsmen and Corpsmen throughout the country which shows Kilmer's to be…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Legislation
Olson, Avis Jocelyn – 1972
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…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Educational Media, Reading, Reading Achievement
Swalm, James; Cox, Gordon – 1971
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…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Content Area Reading, Reading Achievement
Wark, David M., Ed. – 1968
This volume contains the seventeen papers presented to the 1965, 1966, and 1967 annual meeting of the North Central Reading Association. The papers are grouped into four sections: Problems for the Reading Specialist, College Reading Programs and Instructional Techniques; Research on Reading; and the Emerging Junior College Program. Some of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, College Instruction, Conference Reports
BLIESMER, EMERY P. – 1967
A REVIEW OF 124 ARTICLES PERTAINING TO COLLEGE AND ADULT READING WHICH APPEARED IN THE PERIODICAL LITERATURE IS PRESENTED. THE ARTICLES ARE TREATED WITHIN THE FOLLOWING AREAS--(1) PROGRAMS, INCLUDING READING AND STUDY HABITS, TRAITS, AND SKILLS, (2) THE INFLUENCE OF READING, STUDY HABITS, AND SKILLS, (3) THE FACTORS INFLUENCING READING AND OTHER…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Shick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1966
Focusing on new frontiers in college and adult reading, the papers in this volume were drawn from the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1965. Among the topics covered in the 26 papers are the following: reading in the Guatemalan environment, the use of instrumentation in reading, correlates of concentration, the…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading
Bliesmer, Emery P., Ed.; Staiger, Ralph C., Ed. – 1962
Focusing on problems, programs, and projects in college and adult reading, the papers in this volume were drawn from the eleventh annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1961. The 29 papers are grouped into three sections, the first of which contains studies and theoretical papers that deal with reading speed and comprehension.…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Higher Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The ten titles deal with the following topics: passage integrity and type of instruction in prose learning; college student self-concept and reading gain in two instructional methods; the consequences for adults of childhood…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, College Students
Miller, Mev – Feminist Collections, 1999
The contemporary women's movement, communicating largely through the written word, mistakenly ignored or failed to notice the following: (1) almost one quarter of American women (23%) had severely limited literacy skills; (2) for female heads of households, 75% of those with less than a high school diploma lived in poverty; (3) nearly 40% of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Information, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators