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Presseisen, Barbara Z.; And Others – 1978
This is the second volume in a series that records the official Symposium Proceedings of the Jean Piaget Society and examines the theoretical, empirical, and applied aspects of Jean Piaget's seminal epistemology. The 12 papers are divided into four areas: language development, formal reasoning, social cognition, and applied research. The topics of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition, Moral Values
Download full textSmith, Marshall S., Ed. – 1975
This conference panel report focuses on the identification and validation of essential reading skills and on the organization of those skills into instructional hierarchies. The three approaches to research which the panel recommended are the identification and validation of behaviors essential or supportive to the acquisition of competent reading…
Descriptors: Behavior, Conference Reports, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Smith, Marshall S., Ed. – 1975
The purposes of this conference panel were to suggest ways of bringing basic and applied research on reading comprehension into an interaction that would enhance both theory and practice, and to develop an approach to the design and study of instructional practice that would maximize the relevance of instructional research for both the public and…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Learning Theories, Reading, Reading Comprehension
Dugan, JoAnn R., Ed.; Linder, Patricia E., Ed.; Linek, Wayne M., Ed.; Sturtevant, Elizabeth G., Ed. – 1999
This 21st Yearbook of the College Reading Association reflects the ongoing efforts of a group of scholars who have dedicated their professional lives to the advancement of literacy through inquiry that is linked with actual teaching and learning. Following the Presidential Address by Timothy V. Rasinski, "Outside of a Dog, a Book Is Man's…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Literacy
National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1975
Chapter 1 of this report, "Introduction and General Recommendations for Eye-Movement Research and Instrumentation," discusses research priorities; encouraging and supporting theories, models, or simulations of information processing; and improved instrumentation in the field of visual information processing. Chapter 2, "Summary of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conference Reports, Eye Movements, Reading
Smith, Marshall S., Ed. – 1975
The primary goal of the conference panel on modeling the reading process was to prepare a programatically related set of suggestions which could lead to a clearer account of reading and to an ability to pose successively better research questions. This panel report contains sections on the development of a model for word recognition during…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Decoding (Reading), Models, Reading
Guthrie, John T., Ed. – 1976
Papers collected in this volume were presented at the Fifth Annual Blumberg Symposium on Research in Early Childhood Education, held at Johns Hopkins University in 1974. Selections include "Alexia" (D. Frank Benson), "Young Children's Expectations for Reading" (Doris R. Entwisle), "Relations between Acquisition of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Conference Reports, Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation
Niles, Jerome A., Ed.; Harris, Larry A., Ed. – 1984
Reflecting current themes that researchers, by their selective attention, have indicated are important in the field of reading/language processing and instruction, this yearbook presents a collection of 51 selected research articles from the National Reading Conference for 1983. Included are the following articles, listed with their authors: (1)…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Young, Francis A., Ed.; Lindsley, Donald B., Ed. – 1970
This book brings together papers presented at a conference on early experience and visual information processing in perceptual and reading disorders sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences. The goal of the conference was to integrate basic knowledge of structure and mechanisms of eye and brain with their function and their behavioral roles…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Cognitive Processes, Conference Reports, Early Reading
Sturtevant, Elizabeth G., Ed.; Dugan, JoAnn, Ed.; Linder, Patricia, Ed.; Linek, Wayne M., Ed. – 1998
This 20th Yearbook of the College Reading Association reflects the theme of "community" again and again, in diverse ways. First in the yearbook are the Presidential Address by Marino C. Alvarez, "Adolescent Literacy: Are We in Contact?" and the three Keynote Addresses: "My Life in Reading" (J. Chall); "A…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Literacy
Lumpkin, Donavon, Ed.; And Others – 1988
Articles in this eighth yearbook of the American Reading Forum address the dilemmas of teaching reading. Articles, listed with their authors, are as follows: (1) "Deepening a Dilemma: Stylus vs. Computer Writing at an Early Primary Level" (J. Heep); (2) "Concept Maps and Vee Diagrams: Strategies To Deal with the Dilemma of the Restricted…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Content Area Reading, Metacognition, Reading Comprehension
Douglass, Malcolm P., Ed. – 1980
The 25 articles in this collection focus on reading as a humanizing experience. The topics covered include the following: (1) the politics of literacy; (2) the holographic nature of the reading process; (3) literacy through language communication; (4) life-long reading; (5) diagnosis of reading disabilities based on psychoeducational analysis of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Douglass, Malcolm P., Ed. – 1973
The essays in this book reflect some of the major ideas discussed at the Claremont Reading Conference of 1973. Included are such essays as "Reading as Second Language Learning" by Susan Ervin-Tripp, "Feminine Subculture and Female Mind" by Nancy Reeves, "The Home Language of Chicanos as a Medium of Instruction" by Eduardo Hernandez-Chavez, "From…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Decoding (Reading), Dyslexia, Eyes
Smith, Marshall S., Ed. – 1975
The problem of this conference panel was to determine the interaction between the structural properties of text and the cognitive processes involved in comprehension. This panel report contains sections on the organization of the message in the communication system, the information readers derive from a message and how well they derive it, the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Conference Reports
Smith, Marshall S., Ed. – 1975
The problem of this conference panel was to explore attentional and motivational systems and the factors in classroom management that influence them. The contents of this panel report consist of three approaches to the problem: the study of the psychological state of children as they take part in schooling, with special consideration given to the…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Classroom Environment, Conference Reports, Motivation
