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Tompkins, Stephen R. – 1979
A speed reading/scholarship skills course was offered to college-bound students in the Dallas, Texas, school system in 1977-78. Approximately 1,700 students took the 60-day elective course in 20 different high schools. As measured by the Nelson-Denny Standardized Reading Test and compared to college freshman norms, students registered the…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Gifted, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
Peer reviewedLabmeier, Angela M.; Vockell, Edward L. – Reading Horizons, 1973
Descriptors: Grade 9, Reading Comprehension, Reading Development, Reading Programs
Dwyer, Edward J.; West, Russell F. – Forum for Reading, 1989
Investigates whether a freshman reading improvement training program will produce gains in reading rate (normal reading rate, not skimming). Finds positive results for the program. (SR)
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedDembo, Myron H.; Wilson, Donald A. – Journal of Reading, 1973
Descriptors: Grade 7, Performance Contracts, Reading Comprehension, Reading Programs
Peer reviewedMiller, Lyle L. – Educational Leadership, 1973
The essential point of this article is the value of reading comprehension as compared to the value of reading rate. (RK)
Descriptors: Definitions, Educational Innovation, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedCollins, Cathy – Reading Improvement, 1979
Reports an investigation of the effectiveness of "Speedway: The Action Way to Read" in increasing the reading rate and efficiency of adult readers. (FL)
Descriptors: Adults, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Reading Comprehension
Download full textCorman, Louise; And Others – 1973
This study determined the effectiveness of a rapid reading program in improving comprehension and rate of approximately 300 fifth and seventh grade students. Repeated measures analyses of variance were used to compare changes in rate and comprehension during an eight week rapid reading program with three groups of students: those instructed by a…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 5, Grade 7, Reading Comprehension
McBride, Vearl G. – 1971
A total of 118 students were enrolled in the Multi-Language Rapid Reading Program, and by the end of 9 weeks they were able to read intermediate French and Spanish with rates up to 35,000 words per minute (w.p.m.) in Spanish and 25,000 w.p.m. in French. No student scored less than 750 w.p.m. in either language, with 65 percent the lowest…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Eye Movements, French, Reading Programs
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
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
Ketcham, Clay A., Ed. – 1966
The proceedings of the ninth annual meeting of the College Reading Association consisted of the following papers: (1) "President's Address" (R. C. Aukerman); (2) "Planning and Implementing a College Reading Program" (M. Schleich); (3) "Reinforcement Counseling with Small Groups in Modifying Study of College Students"…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Linguistics
Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1968
Focusing on multidisciplinary aspects of college and adult reading, the 27 articles in this volume were drawn from the seventeenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1967. Among the topics discussed in the articles are the following: psychological embarrassments of reading, rapid reading, reading rate, tutoring in a college…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading
Greene, Frank P., Ed. – 1972
This is one of two volumes of papers drawn from the twenty-first annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1971. Focusing on junior college and college reading programs and problems, the 40 papers are arranged into the following categories: designs for programs, special admission students, ethnically different students, adult…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Higher Education, Individualized Programs
