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Santeusanio, Richard P. – 1974
The major purpose of this study was to relate individual differences among selected Suffolk University freshmen to their ability to succeed academically through a reading study skills course which utilized a teacher-directed approach and a student-directed approach. The subject were 87 students from a freshman class who had graduated in the bottom…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Directed Reading Activity, Higher Education, Individualized Reading
Shrauger, Virginia Moore – 1975
Ideas to be understood and to be remembered must be organized. To organize ideas the reader must recognize the relationship of the parts of the ideas, to one another and to the whole. The reader with no orderly set of the ideas presented on the printed page cannot carry on a dialogue with the author and profit from the reading experience. What did…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Instruction, Critical Reading, Directed Reading Activity
Stewart, Elneita Wallace – 1969
The reading improvement program at Texas Southern University employed newspapers, magazines, books, seminars, exhibits, plays, and interdisciplinary reading material to service freshman students and upperclassmen with reading deficiencies. Newspapers were used to inform, to appeal to immediate interests, to develop skimming ability, to increase…
Descriptors: Closed Circuit Television, College Programs, Corrective Reading, Developmental Reading
Taschow, Horst Gerard – 1969
A model of the decoding process as utilized in silent reading on the college level was reported. The model was conceptualized as a pyramid, whose apex represented silent reading comprehension. The body of the total reading model rested on the foundations of basic reading skills and higher-level reading skills which were followed by tentative…
Descriptors: College Students, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Models