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Peer reviewedBarclay, Kathy Dulaney; Thistlethwaite, Linda – Reading Research and Instruction, 1992
Determines, for reading specialists in general and for reading specialists in the federally funded Chapter 1 program specifically, (1) their professional training; (2) their actual responses as compared to their perceived "ideal" responsibilities; and (3) their topic preferences for in-service education offerings. (RS)
Descriptors: Reading Consultants, Reading Research, Reading Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Download full textSiskind, Theresa G.; And Others – 1992
A study investigated the relationship between the amount students read and reading achievement. Subjects, 2,185 first- through eighth-grade students enrolled in a Chapter 1 program during the 1990-91 school year in a large southeastern school district, kept reading logs. Teachers informally assessed comprehension of each text read, and they…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Reading Achievement, Reading Habits
Mississippi State Dept. of Education, Jackson. – 1995
Through the leadership of the Mississippi Board of Education, the Mississippi Department of Education conducted two separate studies of the reading programs offered in the state. The first study examined statewide trends in reading achievement and compared selected school districts' data with data from the National Assessment of Educational…
Descriptors: Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education, Low Income, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedOpitz, Michael F. – Reading Improvement, 1989
Investigates the importance of using student interviews in the development of Chapter 1 diagnostic reading profiles. Finds that the type of information most often recorded in the existing reading profiles was from standardized measures. Finds that teachers and students were able to state unique and pertinent information. (RS)
Descriptors: Grade 4, Informal Reading Inventories, Intermediate Grades, Interviews
Milobar, Deirdre; And Others – 1991
A study examined the effectiveness of a literature based reading strategy used in a Chapter 1 setting, using a series of books with a familiar character. Subjects, 36 third-grade students in a Chapter 1 reading program at 5 different schools representing a variety of socio-economic backgrounds, were divided into control and experimental groups…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Grade 3, Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education
Nechworth, John; And Others – 1989
This study examined the impact of Chapter 1 Developing Language Arts Competencies through Literature (DLACL) program in Houston, Texas, in the academic achievement of students served during the 1988-89 school year. A total of 8,505 students in grades 1-5 were served by the program. The investigation was designed to provide answers to the following…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Language Arts, Language Research
Kragler, Sherry – 1989
A study compared the reading placement levels of Chapter 1 students as indicated by dynamic and static assessment models to determine whether these students could benefit from basal instruction at a higher level of difficulty than would normally be indicated by static assessment. Subjects, 21 third grade Chapter 1 students, received treatment…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Analysis of Covariance, Basal Reading, Grade 3
Peer reviewedDavis, Mary Mitchell; And Others – Reading Research and Instruction, 1993
Examines the relationship between two Chapter I teachers' reader-based beliefs about reading and their instructional decision making that took place as they planned instruction and during actual teaching episodes. Finds that participants' beliefs affected their decision making but that other factors also influenced their instructional practices.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Primary Education, Reading Attitudes, Reading Instruction
Hurley, Sandra R.; Wooden, Sharon L. – 1994
A study investigated the nature of reading difficulties from the perspective of sixth graders in a low-income school district on the border of New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. R. C. Bogdan and S. K. Biklin (1992) describe this style of research as an attempt to gain entry into the conceptual world of subjects to understand what meaning they…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Ethnography
Brown, Minnette I. – 1990
This study investigated the effects of story mapping on reading comprehension. Subjects, 20 second-grade students of below-average reading achievement, were presented over a 10-week period with activities in story mapping utilizing a variety of story map frames. The Metropolitan Achievement Test was administered as a pre- and posttest. Results…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grade 2, Primary Education, Reading Attitudes
Wang, Y. Lawrence; Johnstone, Whitcomb – 1997
A study examined the effectiveness of the Reading Recovery program in the Irving, Texas, Independent School District. Subjects were students discontinued from the Reading Recovery program because they scored at or above the 40th national percentile, selected students from Chapter/Title I programs on campuses that did not implement Reading…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Early Intervention, High Risk Students, Primary Education
Burgett, Russell; King, James – 1989
A study compared peripheral vision applied to letter-pair and Dolch word recognition. Subjects, 6 normal readers, 12 Chapter 1 students, and 34 learning disabled (and assumed dyslexic) students from grades one through three enrolled in a parochial school, a public school, and a university summer reading clinic, completed a test designed to…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Learning Disabilities, Letters (Alphabet), Primary Education
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. – 1990
A study evaluated the Chapter 1 Reading Skills Center program which provided supplementary, individualized instruction in reading and writing to 176 eligible students in grades four through eight from four nonpublic schools in New York City. Major goals were to enable students to develop competency in reading and to integrate reading skills into…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Private Schools, Reading Improvement, Reading Programs
Beach, Sara Ann – 1990
A study examined the construct and predictive validity of phonemic awareness to determine the strength of the relationship between phonemic segmentation and auditory abstraction and to determine which of the two measures provided the best prediction of word recognition ability. Data were gathered from 65 first-grade children from 2 public…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Grade 1, Listening Comprehension, Multiple Regression Analysis
Johns, Jerry; VanLeirsburg, Peggy – 1993
Presenting information for the improvement of instruction and services to at-risk students from elementary through beginning college levels, this ERIC "FAST Bib" focuses on recent research and strategies for Chapter 1, a federally funded program serving at-risk students since 1965. The FAST Bib presents 25 annotations of ERIC documents…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Higher Education
