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McDonnell, Thomas Emmett – 1975
Effects of assignment to a regular classroom, to a resource room, or to a remedial reading group were examined in a study of gains in reading achievement of 49 elementary school boys. Measures used included the Slosson Intelligence Test, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, the Primary Mental Abilities Vocabulary subtest, and the…
Descriptors: Classification, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Males
Lloyd, Bruce A. – Int Reading Assn Conf Proc Pt 1, 1968
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Program Descriptions, Program Development, Reading Achievement
Boder, Elena – Claremont Coll Reading Conf 32nd Yearbook, 1968
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Dyslexia, Error Patterns, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Download full textGeorge, John E.; Prugh, Linda S. – 1974
This paper reports on an intensive, highly-structured, one-to-one tutoring system used as a model program. The "Tutor-Student System in Beginning Reading," the basic instructional material for the model program, was developed to train tutors to say and do what the reading specialist normally says and does when teaching reading in a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Higher Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Mavrogenes, Nancy A.; Galen, Nancy D. – 1980
The difference model of reading disability was used to generate three research hypotheses for testing the relationship between language development (syntactic maturity) and reading achievement at the secondary school level. This model assumes that reading difficulties are attributable to differences or mismatches between the reader's response…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Uroff, Shayle – 1972
The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of a state-mandated remedial reading program in grades ten through twelve by determining if significant differences existed in student reading achievement growth, attitude, and opinions with regard to school, sex, and grade. The population consisted of 137 students completing a one-semester…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
Jongsma, Eugene A. – 1981
This summary report describes the three-year Special Emphasis Project, a large federal program directed at preventing and correcting reading difficulties among elementary school children. Section one of the report provides a brief history of the project, with descriptions of its rationale, intent, major and specific provisions, and the controlled…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Federal Programs, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation
Wang, Ming-mei; And Others – 1981
National compensatory education and the relationship between student achievement growth and educational processes are assessed in a first year report of the Sustaining Effects Study required by Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Federal funds were authorized to provide special compensatory services to educationally…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Educational Environment
Jongsma, Eugene A. – 1981
This report presents case studies of the three exemplary projects within the Special Emphasis Project, a federally funded national study of how intensive reading programs might change the patterns of elementary school students who read one or more grades below grade level. An introductory section provides information on the history, organization,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Education, Federal Programs, Program Descriptions
White River Vocational Technical School, Newport, AR. – 1990
The Basic/Technical Literacy project at White River Vocational Technical School in Arkansas implemented a comprehensive curriculum to raise students' basic reading and technical literacy levels in their chosen skill area. During the project, master vocabulary lists for each skill area were developed, and self-test worksheets and study guides were…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Literacy Education, Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education
Schnell, Thomas R. – 1973
This study compares the effectiveness of two approaches to teaching survival reading skills to 50 semi-literate adults. One group was given reading instruction from high interest-low vocabulary reading materials at appropriate levels of difficulty according to their results on the Gray Oral Reading Test, Form A. The second group was given reading…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Students, Educationally Disadvantaged
Guthrie, John T.; And Others – 1976
Questionnaires were sent to principals and teachers of second and sixth grade children who were part of an Educational Testing Service (ETS) study of compensatory reading programs; the data were combined and analyzed with the original ETS data to determine what effects instructional characteristics had on reading achievement. Within the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Conference Reports, Elementary Education, Grade 2
Williams, Fern C.; And Others – 1971
This study explores the hypothesis that the auditory discrimination abilities of disadvantaged Negro children can be improved significantly through an appropriate auditory perception training program. (AG)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Training, Black Students
Peer reviewedBeringause, Arthur F. – The CEA Critic, 1965
Pre-college remedial courses in reading and writing at Bronx Community College are described. Teachers with experience in high school remedial reading and composition and college composition taught a combined remedial reading-composition course and a control remedial composition course, so that reading improvement could be tested for both classes.…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Curriculum Design, English Instruction, Reading Achievement
Wirt, John; Choy, Susan; Gerald, Debra; Provasnik, Stephen; Rooney, Patrick; Watanabe, Satoshi; Tobin, Richard; Glander, Mark – National Center for Education Statistics, 2001
To ensure reliable, accurate, and timely data, which are necessary to monitor the progress of education in the United States, Congress has mandated that the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) produce an annual report, "The Condition of Education." This year's report presents 59 indicators of important developments and trends…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, School Statistics, Educational Trends, Educational Indicators
