Contains a review of the reading tests for use in diagnosis at the secondary level. (RB)

Compares the "Neale Analysis of Reading Ability" test with the "Standard Reading Test 1" (Daniels and Diack), concluding that there is some evidence for the validity of "Test 1" but that it is more difficult than the Neale Test. (RB)

Student poor reading ability is causing major problems in the teaching of business education. Suggestions are offered to overcome the difficulty. (BP)

A recent study on the free selection of library books for recreational silent reading periods focused on the difficulty of material chosen and on the relationship between the students' reading ability and the readability of a book. Three groups of 24 students completed an interest inventory form, and their reading ability, sex, and reading…

Past reading research suggests that measures of reading comprehension should be made context dependent. Reading comprehension test questions that are context dependent are best answered by examinees only after the accompanying passages have been read. Recently, there has been some disagreement concerning the exact importance of context dependence…

To determine the educationally related characteristics and relationships among selected variables that describe the United States Navy's recruit population, data were obtained on 84,123 recruits who entered the Navy between June 1981 and May 1982. Data were obtained from the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Comprehension Test and the Armed Forces…

To test how phonemic awareness influences reading, two experiments were conducted in the northwestern part of England in which twenty pairs of children possessing phonemic awareness (pa+) and lacking phonemic awareness (pa-) and matched for reading and chronological age were compared. In the first experiment, the subjects' ability to detect…

Provides a detailed description of the "Diagnostic Reading Scales" which tests students' skills in word recognition, oral reading, rate of reading, silent reading, reading potential and other areas. (RB)

Findings suggest that Vernon's hierarchical paradigm constitutes a useful framework for interpreting WISC and ITPA results for reading disabled students. (RB)

Concludes that the Associated Press and United Press International, the two major wire services for newspapers, are writing over the reading levels of junior high school students, and in doing so are destroying the effectiveness of the newspaper as a learning tool. (RB)

Article raised a basic question: can results of reading comprehension tests be broken down into subscores in a way which provides a greater amount of educationally significant information than that obtained from a single score on the total test? (Author/RK)

Investigated the use of an intermediate level of orthographic representation based upon the theoretical framework of transformational-generative grammar. (RB)

The four main components of the reading process are as follows: (1) physiological, the apprehension of printed symbols by the eyes and the engagement of the brain and the nervous system; (2) phonological, hearing the words in the mind's ear; (3) understanding, requiring semantic knowledge, syntactic knowledge, and related prior experience on the…

Describes a reading policy designed for a British comprehensive school, and suggests some of the approaches that can be adopted to develop the reading habits of students before they leave school. (RB)

Contains a survey designed to gather descriptive information about secondary reading in order to improve university programs in teacher preparation and school consultation. (RB)