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Howards, Melvin – 1970
The author discounts the effects of currently promoted speed reading programs as resulting in short-term effectiveness and disregarding a consideration of what constitutes good reading at any speed. He claims that the types and levels of transformations and interpretations, verbal and nonverbal, that must go into good reading are not susceptible…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Processes, Reading Rate, Reading Skills
Schale, 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
Nacke, Phil L. – 1970
An integral dimension in the concept of flexible efficient reading is the process of skimming, which is defined as the reading behavior in which information is processed without looking at all or most of the words in continuous printed discourse. Measurement of flexible reading efficiency presents problems which revolve around four major issues.…
Descriptors: Measurement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Processes
Leeson, Jeanne Tellier – Instructor, 1969
Part of a section, "4 Reading Techniques that Work.
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes, Reading Rate

O'Reilly, Robert P.; Walker, James E. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1990
Examines selected research showing how the components of human information processing limit reading rates. Suggests that speed reading is impossible when the intent is to understand the message communicated by the text. Discusses limiting factors in processes of word recognition, working memory, and comprehension. Discusses evaluative and…
Descriptors: College Students, Postsecondary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Jackson, Mark D.; McClelland, James L. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975
Fast and average readers were tested on four tasks. Fast readers appear to pick up more information per fixation on structured textual material, and had a greater span of apprehension for unrelated elements. Results disagree with the view that reading speed depends solely on ability to infer missing information. (CHK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Reading Ability

Knowlton, M.; Wetzel, R. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1996
This study of the cognitive processes of braille reading compared the reading of 23 adult braille readers in 4 different reading conditions: oral reading, silent reading, studying, and scanning. The findings support the idea that braille reading is process driven and that reading rates vary, depending on the purpose of the reading task. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Blindness, Braille, Cognitive Processes
Haberlandt, Karl – 1989
A study was conducted to evaluate reading strategies by contrasting regression results of 10 fast versus 10 slow readers. At the word level the lag effect was evaluated. At the text level, the few-argument strategy versus the many-argument strategy and the physical and the syntactic strategies were evaluated. The absolute proportion of the lag…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Multiple Regression Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes

Schale, Florence C. – Scientia Paedagogica Experimentalis, 1971
The article describes the monocular performance of two gifted school girls while reading at page at a glance" rates. It also investigated implications for teaching the partially blind to read more rapidly. (MF)
Descriptors: Blindness, Partial Vision, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement

Williams, Ray – Reading, 1979
Discusses the origins of the interest in faster reading, oculomotor activity in reading in relation to eye movement and eye span, misapplication of eye movement data in courses designed to promote faster reading, and objections to some of the more common mechanical devices used in faster reading courses. (GT)
Descriptors: Educational Problems, Efficiency, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements
Karanth, Prathibha; Mathew, Anu; Kurien, Priya – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
Reading has been an extensively studied topic in the Western hemisphere for several decades, and an enormous amount of empirical data has accumulated on various aspects of reading alphabetic writing systems like English. Of late, there has been some interest in the processing of non-alphabetic scripts. However, there is hardly any empirical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Written Language, Reading Rate, Reading Processes
Carver, Ronald P. – 1977
This is the final report on a research project that measured the effect of reading rate on accuracy and the efficiency of reading comprehension. At the outset of the project, existing research data were integrated into a comprehensive account called a "rauding theory," which interrelates reading ability, passage difficulty, reading time,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Listening Skills, Postsecondary Education, Reading Ability
Sandberg, Karl C. – 1976
The word-identification approach has long been the basis for teaching reading in both native and second languages. Recent work has a new approach, particularly that of Frank Smith, who developed a feature analysis model of reading. As we can identify letters in different configurations or before all the strokes are completed, so can we identify…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Processes, Memory, Psycholinguistics
McIntosh, Margaret E. – 1983
A variety of techniques for improving readers' analysis-by-synthesis abilities (rapid, efficient reading typical of highly skilled readers) are presented in this paper. The techniques discussed in the first part emphasize improving reading comprehension and include the following: (1) modifications of the cloze procedure (encouraging readers to use…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
MILLER, JUSTIN H. – 1966
TRENDS EVIDENT IN ADULT READING DURING THE 1960'S IN THE AREAS OF ADMINISTRATION, PROGRAMS, TEACHING, TECHNIQUES, RESEARCH PROJECTS, AND METHODS OF PROMOTION OF READING PROGRAMS ARE DISCUSSED. TWO INSTANCES OF COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION BASED ON INTENSE AND OFTEN FALLACIOUS ADVERTISING AND ON PUBLIC IGNORANCE ARE CITED. A POSITIVE TREND IN THE AREA…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Reading Programs, Educational Trends, Inner Speech (Subvocal)