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Direct linkGao, Tao; Zhao, Junfeng; Dou, Kai; Wang, Yujie; Li, Xiaoming; Harrison, Sayward E. – School Psychology International, 2018
This study used a quasi-experimental design to investigate the impact of Rapid Reading Skills Training (RRST) on some reading outcomes for primary school students in central China and also examined the influence of cognitive flexibility on intervention outcomes. A sample of 108 students (mean age = 11.75 years) were recruited. Students' cognitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quasiexperimental Design, Reading Skills, Speed Reading
Lueck, Kerstin – CALICO Journal, 2008
This study aimed to investigate whether pedagogically guided web-based reading can improve skimming and scanning significantly (i.e., increased productive outcomes) and whether it can enhance student participation and motivation (i.e., increased affective outcomes). Forty-six students enrolled in two German 3 classes at the high school level were…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Speed Reading, Second Language Learning, Student Participation
Cory, Christopher T. – Learning, 1974
Descriptors: Curriculum, Opinions, Reading Rate, Reading Skills
Davis, Nancy B. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1969
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate, Reading Skills, Speed Reading
Download full textHowards, Melvin – 1970
The author discounts the effects of currently promoted speed reading programs as resulting in short-term effectiveness and disregarding a consideration of what constitutes good reading at any speed. He claims that the types and levels of transformations and interpretations, verbal and nonverbal, that must go into good reading are not susceptible…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Processes, Reading Rate, Reading Skills
Harden, Clyde; And Others – Training and Development Journal, 1971
A special program at Quaker Oats with results, retention, and financial motivation. (Journal/EB)
Descriptors: Industrial Personnel, Motivation, Persistence, Reading Skills
Peer reviewedSmith, Brenda Golembesky – Journal of Reading, 1975
Cites the factors that influence reading rates and comprehension scores on timed speed reading tests, concluding that the reading speed achieved for any particular test or timed reading is the speed for that situation only. (RB)
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate, Reading Skills, Reading Tests
Peer reviewedPauk, Walter – Reading World, 1975
Suggests that learning to skim reading materials is an important study skill. (RB)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills
Dintelman, C. J. – 1971
This topical paper is one of a series on various facets of reading programs in the junior college. For convenience, this discussion of reading skills is divided into three main categories. The first category, speed-reading, is concerned with: visual discrimination associated with rapid recognition of meaning, visual-motor-mental functioning,…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Retention (Psychology)
Thompson, Mark E. – 1985
An overview of significant research studies, bibliographies, historical reviews, definitions, and commentaries on speed reading during the past 60 years is presented in this paper. The first part of the paper considers the concept and definitions of speed reading, and summarizes research from the l940s and 1950s--including discussion of eye…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Reading Rate
Maxwell, Martha J. – 1969
The rationale and techniques for developing skimming and scanning skills with college students are discussed, and it is noted that perfecting these skills involves changing some basic attitudes towards reading such as the ideas that one needs to read every word and that increasing speed decreases comprehension. Lengthy passages in regular college…
Descriptors: College Programs, Reading Materials, Reading Rate, Reading Skills
Kump, Peter C. – 1971
Speed reading is an issue of how fast a person can comprehend rather than how fast he can read. Research and experience have shown that speed reading can be taught and that the need for the skill is tremendous. The first challenge of the 70's is to enlighten school administrators and parents to the important need of teaching speed reading skills.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Research Needs, Skill Development
Peer reviewedMaxwell, Martha J. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1972
Descriptors: College Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Habits, Reading Instruction
Leeson, Jeanne Tellier – Instructor, 1969
Part of a section, "4 Reading Techniques that Work.
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes, Reading Rate
Berger, Allen – 1972
The latest thinking on reading rate and flexibility is discussed in this paper. Included are highlights of the recently completed reading rate portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The current state of knowledge is assessed and promising research and useful writings in English and Spanish are cited. (Author/WR) Aspect of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Skills, Reading, Reading Achievement
