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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
Download full textHULTGREN, DAYTON D. – 1967
AN EXPLORATION OF COMPREHENSION AND RAPID READING IS PRESENTED. THE QUALITY OF READING IS DISCUSSED FROM THE STANDPOINT OF EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS. RESEARCH FINDINGS WHICH INDICATE THE LOW COMPREHENSION RESULTING FROM "DYNAMIC" READING, THAT IS, READING DOWN THE CENTER OF THE PAGE WITH NO LEFT-TO-RIGHT EYE MOVEMENTS, ARE CITED.…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Functional Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
BERGER, ALLEN – 1967
CONFLICTING VIEWS CONCERNING READING RATE ARE PRESENTED. THE CLAIMS MADE BY PROPONENTS OF DIFFERENT METHODS OR PROGRAMS AND THE USE OF MECHANICAL DEVICES TO INCREASE READING RATE ARE MAJOR ISSUES. CLAIMS ARE MADE THAT MOST EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ARE MERELY DESCRIPTIVE STUDIES, AND THAT OTHERS LACK PILOT STUDIES AND ADEQUATE CONTROL GROUPS. RELATED…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate, Reading Research, Research Needs
Pimsleur, Paul; And Others – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1977
The speech rate of French and American radio broadcasters is compared in order to provide language teachers with an optimum speed. (AM)
Descriptors: French, Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension, Phonology
Peer reviewedRogers, C. D. – Reading Improvement, 1973
Summarizes the processes that can be used to deal with the student complex for ever-increasing reading speed. (TO)
Descriptors: Reading Development, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Reading Rate
Ekwall, Eldon E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1969
Descriptors: Eye Fixations, Eye Movements, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate
Peer reviewedFoster, Blair T. – Ohio Reading Teacher, 1990
Discusses methods and research related to increasing children's reading rates to improve their comprehension and self-esteem. Concludes that the improvement of reading rate should be an established component of any reading program. (MG)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Harris, Albert J. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1969
Condensed from "Journal of Reading, Volume 12 (December 1968), 205-10, 258-60.
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
McLaughlin, G. Harry – J Reading, 1969
Descriptors: Eye Fixations, Eye Movements, Intelligence, Reading Rate
Samuels, S. Jay – 1968
Two separate studies were designed to investigate the effect of reading the first word of a pair on the speed of recognizing the second. One study drew its subjects from the college level; the other from the fourth grade. A Scientific Prototype Three-Channel Tachistoscope was used, and an erasing image was flashed immediately following the…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, College Students, Grade 4, Speed Reading
Hendryson, Irvin E. – 1969
Basic questions from a layman's viewpoint about the teaching of reading and other related issues are discussed. The questionable effects of the mass media on parental attitudes toward and awareness of reading issues is pointed out, and the need for professional communication on these issues is emphasized. Topics such as methods of teaching…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Mass Media, Methods, Parent Attitudes
Schale, Florence – 1969
A preliminary study is reported which attempted to define gifted rapid readers, authenticate the performances of three subjects who were designated as gifted rapid readers, and explore the relationship of a subject's ability to perceive print eidetically and to read and/or skim. Volunteer subjects were a 15-year-old girl from the Philippines, a…
Descriptors: Eidetic Imagery, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Reading Rate
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)
Nacke, Phil L. – 1970
An integral dimension in the concept of flexible efficient reading is the process of skimming, which is defined as the reading behavior in which information is processed without looking at all or most of the words in continuous printed discourse. Measurement of flexible reading efficiency presents problems which revolve around four major issues.…
Descriptors: Measurement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Processes
Schale, Florence – 1971
This study was based on the assumption that the average person should be able to grasp 14 words of pica type within the span of a half dollar. During the weekly Rapid Reading series, a cooperative venture of CBS-TV and the Northwestern University, a tachistoscopic challenge was presented to the audience. The training in rapid reading came through…
Descriptors: Educational Television, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Reinforcement
