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Download full textCausey, Oscar S., Ed. – 1958
This volume, the seventh in a series, is the first yearbook published after the Southwest Reading Conference for Colleges and Universities was changed to the National Reading Conference for Colleges and Adults. All of the fourteen papers and reports presented at the annual meeting in December 1957 are included in this volume. Among topics covered…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College School Cooperation, College Students, Conference Reports
Causey, Oscar S., Ed. – 1955
This volume contains selections from the first, second, and third yearbooks of the Southwest Reading Conference for Colleges and Universities. Articles discuss various aspects of college reading programs, including program establishment and administration, recent research on college reading, student reaction, vocabulary development, evaluation of…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Counseling Services, Higher Education
Causey, Oscar S., Ed. – 1957
The title of this volume was the theme of the sixth annual meeting of the Southwest Reading Conference for Colleges and Universities, held in December 1956. Authors of the eleven reports on successful college and adult reading programs focused on various aspects of the programs, including academic performance, program evaluation, faculty, public…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Higher Education, Industry
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
Causey, Oscar S., Ed. – 1954
This yearbook contains the papers presented at the third annual meeting of the Southwest Reading Conference for Colleges and Universities as well as additional articles of interest written by members. Topics considered: reading in the college curriculum, evaluation of the tachistoscope in reading improvement programs, recent research relative to…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Programs, College Students, Higher Education
Keetz, Mary A. – 1970
An investigation was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of a reading and study skills program for students taking a great number of courses that require quantitative reasoning, as well as other skills. Subjects were 53 freshmen enrolled at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. All of the subjects had failed one or more courses. A…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Freshmen, College Programs, Course Evaluation
Raygor, Alton L., Ed. – 1962
This yearbook is a report of the papers presented at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the North Central Reading Association. The titles and authors of the papers included are: "Recent Research in College and Adult Reading" by Edward G. Summers; "The Definition of Reading" by Earl F. Rankin; "The Effect of Reading Training on College Achievement" by…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Educational Television
Causey, Oscar S., Ed.; Eller, William, Ed. – 1959
This issue of the yearbook contains twenty papers that were presented and discussed at the eighth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference. Papers in part one relate to the various problems involved in starting college reading programs, including the administration of the program, selection and motivation of students, objectives,…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Higher Education
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
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Direct linkPrzychodzin-Havis, Angela M.; Marchand-Martella, Nancy E.; Martella, Ronald C.; Miller, Darcy A.; Warner, Lisa; Leonard, Bethany; Chapman, Susan – Journal of Direct Instruction, 2005
This paper provides an analysis of "Corrective Reading" research. A research review of 28 published studies was completed. Twenty-three studies examined the effectiveness of "Corrective Reading" as delivered by teachers in general education (n = 4), special education (n = 12), and alternative education (n = 7) settings. Five…
Descriptors: General Education, Reading Research, Reading Programs, Research Design
Raygor, Alton L., Ed. – 1963
This yearbook contains the papers presented at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the North Central Reading Association. The titles and authors of the papers included are: "Speed Reading vs. Effective Developmental Reading" by Lester Van Gilder; "Counseling and Reading, Their Interrelationship" by Boyd Jackson; "Recent Research in College and Adult…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Developmental Reading, Inservice Education
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
Nacke, Phil L., Ed. – 1973
Significant themes of the papers included in this twenty-second Yearbook of the National Reading Conference are teacher education programs in reading and the competency-based concept of teaching. Some specific topics are accountability in the community college reading program, adult reading improvement programs, and uses of the cloze procedure,…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Cloze Procedure, College Programs, Communication Skills
Causey, Oscar S., Ed. – 1956
This yearbook contains addresses and discussion group reports from the fifth annual meeting of the Southwest Reading Conference for Colleges and Universities. Part 1 includes addresses which consider: definitions of reading, psychological explanations of reading, the sociology of reading, recent research in college reading, reading and semantics,…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Programs, College Students, Conference Reports
Summers, Edward G., Ed.; Lukasevich, Ann, Ed. – 1978
Each of 1,067 articles selected for classification in this index were analyzed and individual annotations were written following specifically prepared guidelines. Entries are listed according to the following classification: reading in general; reviews and bibliographies; the correlates of reading, including general, intellectual,…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
