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Cashdan, Asher; Pumfrey, P. D. – Educ Res, 1969
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Males, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement
Dizney, Henry; and others – Percept Mot Skills, 1969
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements
Download full textCOHN, JULIE A.; LEVIN, HARRY – 1967
ONE MEASURE CURRENTLY USED TO DESCRIBE THE READING PROCESSES IS THE EYE-VOICE SPAN OR EVS. THE EVS IS DEFINED AS THE DISTANCE OR SPAN OF WORDS THAT THE EYE IS AHEAD OF THE VOICE IN ORAL READING. THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT INSTRUCTIONALLY-INDUCED SETS UPON THE EYE-VOICE SPANS OF READERS AT VARIOUS ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOL LEVELS WERE INVESTIGATED.…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Eye Voice Span, Motivation, Oral Reading
Hatcher, Catherine W.; And Others – 1975
The study compared the relationships of more easily administered intelligence screening instruments with the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) to determine the validity of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, the Slosson Intelligence Test, and the Raven Progressive Matrices among reading disabled children. The screening measures were…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Elementary Education, Intelligence Tests, Reading Ability
PDF pending restorationCox, Diane K. – 1976
This study investigated the relation between field independence/field dependence (FI/FD) and reading success. One hundred kindergarten children from a predominantly white, middle-class community were administered a Portable Rod and Frame Test as a measure of cognitive style. The upper and lower 27% were identified and designated Field Dependent…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Reading Ability
Block, Alan; And Others – 1976
The relationship between the reading abilities of 215 freshman composition students and the readability of their college textbooks was studied. Measures from the Nelson-Denny Reading Test and the Dale-Chall Readability Formula were used to assess the relationship between reading ability and the readability of the textbooks. Results indicated that…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Higher Education, Readability, Reading Ability
Searls, Evelyn F. – 1975
The purpose of this bulletin is to acquaint the reading teacher with the organization and administration of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC). Procedures are suggested for analyzing WISC scores in ways that may yield valuable information for teachers who seek to remediate the student's reading disability. The bulletin contains…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Intelligence, Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests
Anderson, Roger H.; Samuels, S. Jay – 1970
The relationship between visual recognition memory and performance on a paired-associate task for good and poor readers was investigated. Subjects were three groups of 21, 21, and 22 children each, with mean IQ's of 98.2, 108.1, and 118.0, respectively. Three experimental tasks, individually administered to each subject, measured visual…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Intelligence, Memory, Paired Associate Learning
Samuels, S. Jay – 1970
A study using four groups, each of 25 first graders, indicated that letter-naming ability does not facilitate learning to read words composed of the same letters. One group was taught to discriminate between four artificial graphemes by identifying them with different geometric forms. The second group was taught to give the graphemes the letter…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Graphemes, Phonetics, Reading Ability
Levitt, Edith – 1969
To study the effects of context on the performance of children reading at first grade level, 26 retarded and 24 normal children were tested. Subjects read words printed individually on separate pages; they also read the word in the context of a sentence. Results indicated that provision of a context produced significant improvement in the reading…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Reading
Bristol Community Coll., Fall River, MA. – 1974
This document lists several prerequisites required for reading, especially those that relate to English as a Second Language students. The prerequisites listed include; the concept of print, which discusses the importance of a student being aware that printed material conveys thought through words which are at least similar, if not identical to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Development
Hurta, Marilyn Jane – 1972
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the child's ability to conserve and reading ability. Two groups of 25 children, ages 7.0 to 8.5 were selected as subjects. One group of children was classified as reading disabled and the other as non-reading disabled. Each child was administered the Concept Assessment…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Difficulties
Olson, James Harry – 1969
This study was designed (1) to contrast the performance of grade 2 children on the pronunciation of words which had been systematically taught through the basal reading program during grade 1, with words which had not been taught and were encountered at higher levels in that same basal reading program; and (2) to compare pupils' ability to…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Grade 2, Pronunciation, Reading Ability
Sumner, G. C. – 1971
This report describes an objective method for allocating San Jose students to groups so that each group would include the same representation of students according to two quantitative measures of scholastic achievement. The conditions provided that each group be internally heterogeneous, but that intergroup differences be small, so that each would…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Experiments, Grade 7, Heterogeneous Grouping
Johnson, Dale D. – 1970
Children's pronunciations of vowel clusters in synthetic words were analyzed in relation to common English words containing the same vowel clusters. Subjects were 436 elementary-school students of both high and low reading levels from a suburban, an urban, and a rural community. Independent variables were grade level, sex, reading level, community…
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, Language Research, Pronunciation
