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Download full textMAZURKIEWICZ, ALBERT J. – 1967
A 3-YEAR STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF BEGINNING READING INSTRUCTION WITH THE INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET (ITA) AND WITH TRADITIONAL ORTHOGRAPHY (TO) ON PUPILS' READING ACHIEVEMENT IN BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA, IS REPORTED. THE SCORES OF KINDERGARTEN PUPILS ON THE LEE-CLARK READING READINESS TEST WERE USED TO INSURE THE HETEROGENEITY OF THE TREATMENT…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Inservice Teacher Education, Methods Research
MARITA, SISTER M. – 1965
TO ASSESS DIFFERENCES IN READING ACHIEVEMENT, READING ATTITUDE, AND READING PROGRESS OF FIRST-GRADE CHILDREN OF HIGH AND LOW MENTAL ABILITIES DIFFERENT CLASSROOM ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERNS WERE USED. EACH ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERN PROVIDED A DIFFERENT LEARNING SITUATION OR "TREATMENT." THE STUDY SAMPLE CONSISTED OF 32 TEACHERS AND 810 CHILDREN…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Achievement Gains, Beginning Reading, Classroom Design
Askins (B.E.) and Associates, Lubbock, TX. – 1980
A Clovis, New Mexico, project designed to develop over five years a model English-Spanish bilingual program for limited English proficiency students from nursery school through grade 6 did not fully meet its objectives during the 1979-80 school year, the project's fifth and final year. One hundred forty students enrolled in grades 3-6 in two…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education
Dupuis, Mary M. – 1980
An overview of the assessment of the basic skills of prospective secondary level education students at Pennsylvania State University is provided in this paper. Assessment in the areas of reading, writing, and speaking was conducted as a response to public criticism of teachers' skills and as a means of meeting a competency requirement in the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Educational Assessment, Educational Research
Perry, Marden L. – 1979
A study was undertaken to determine (1) whether community college freshmen who perceive certain structural considerations in their reading can generate essays that show application of those considerations, and (2) whether there are significant differences in the writing achievement of "more able" and "less able" students. The experimental group…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Integrated Activities, Literature, Reading Achievement
Juel, Connie – 1979
A study was undertaken to investigate the extent to which reading by students with varying skill levels is a text-driven or a concept-driven process; that is, it examined the conditions under which readers used context to identify words. The 72 second and third grade students in the study read target words that varied in decodability, frequency,…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Grade 2
Kincaid, J. Peter; Curry, Thomas F., Jr. – 1979
In response to the assessed need for improving the basic academic skills of United States Navy personnel, a project was undertaken to develop a relevant remedial reading workbook for Navy recruit training commands (RTCs). The workbook was designed to augment existing commercial nonmilitary oriented remedial reading materials that were being used…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Basic Skills, Military Personnel, Military Service
Jordan, Valerie Barnes; Brownlee, Linda – 1979
The relationship between performance on various Piagetian and reading achievement tasks as examined through 26 correlational studies is reviewed. The following areas of concern are addressed: (1) sample characteristics of the subjects; (2) classification of the Piagetian tasks into five categories of logical operations, spatial concepts, general…
Descriptors: Correlation, Developmental Tasks, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
The Effect of a Language-Based Reading Approach upon the Reading Strategies of First Grade Children.
Gardiner, D. Elizabeth – 1978
The effects of a language-based reading approach on the reading strategies of first grade children were examined in a study involving a total of 40 children. Half of the students were placed in an experimental group that was exposed to the language-based reading approach, and half were placed in a control group that was taught to read by a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1, Language Acquisition
Drier Educational Systems, Inc., Highland Park, NJ. – 1979
The reading comprehension tests, one for nine-year-olds usually in grade 3 and one for thirteen-year-olds usually in grade 7, were developed from released items on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The tests were constructed to assess student achievement against a national norm, by comparing individual student scores to the national…
Descriptors: Answer Keys, Answer Sheets, Educational Testing, Elementary Education
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Basic Continuing Education. – 1968
The New York State adult basic education program (funded under Title III, P.L.89-750) was studied during 1965-67 to ascertain whether the target population was being reached, compare effectiveness of different programs; estimate time expectancies needed by individuals to attain functional literacy, learn if sociological and physical variables of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Age Differences, Attendance, Educational Background
Bougere, Marguerite B. – 1968
The relationship between first-grade reading achievement and selected experimental language measures was investigated. The measures selected for study were (1) number of T-units (communication units) spoken in an experimental situation, (2) mean length of T-unit, (3) ratio of subordinate clause length to T-unit length, (4) ratio of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Kernel Sentences, Language Patterns
Dunn, Lloyd M.; And Others – 1967
This Cooperative Language Development Project had two objectives: (1) to provide a modified language program for culturally disadvantaged first graders and (2) to evaluate the effectiveness of the program in terms of academic, intellectual, and linguistic growth. In a 2-year intervention program experimental versions of the Peabody Language…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Control Groups, Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students
Sheldon, William D.; And Others – 1967
The reading achievement of 376 second graders and the performances in oral reading and creative writing of 150 randomly selected subjects taught by three different methods were studied. All three approaches (basal reader, modified linguistic, and linguistic) were effective for reading instruction at the second-grade level. The largest differences…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Creative Writing, Linguistics, Oral Reading
Gantt, Walter – 1977
Based on transcribed conversations with black children in kindergarten and the intermediate grades, a study was devised to determine whether black urban children from lower socioeconomic areas speak a systematic, consistent form of nonstandard English, and if so, to provide a syntactical analysis of the dialect of nonstandard speakers. Speech…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Elementary Education, Kindergarten Children
