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Bell, Kenneth E.; Limber, John E. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2010
We surveyed students enrolled in Introductory Psychology courses about their text marking preferences and analyzed the marking in their textbooks. Low-skill readers report more reliance on highlighting strategies and actually mark their texts more than better readers. In addition, low-skilled readers prefer to buy used, previously marked texts…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Textbooks, Psychology, Reading Skills
Peralta Santana, Enrique – Educacion, 1972
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Independent Study, Learning Activities, Reading Habits
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Maxwell, Martha J. – Journal of Reading, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Emotional Adjustment
Landsberger, Betty H.; And Others – 1976
This paper reports the results of a study which examined the longitudinal relationships between young children's classroom behavior and their performance on achievement tests. Subjects were 235 children who made up the first cohort to attend kindergarten in the public schools of North Carolina. Data were collected at four points: at the beginning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Arithmetic, Behavior Patterns
Brozo, William G.; Curtis, Carol L. – 1986
To determine how some learning disabled students manage to achieve success in college, a study investigated the extent to which successful learning disabled college students demonstrate characteristics often attributed to learning disabled students in general: inactive learners who fail to use efficient, organized strategies and who lack…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies