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Download full textBIEMILLER, ANDREW J.; LEVIN, HARRY – 1965
VERBAL REACTION TIMES TO WORD FORMS THAT DIFFER IN THEIR PRONOUNCEABILITY WERE ASSESSED FOR SIGNFICANCE OF CORRELATION. SINGLE PSEUDOWORDS OF VARYING PRONOUNCEABILITY WERE SHOWN TO 36 THIRD AND FOURTH GRADERS, AND THEIR REACTION TIMES FOR ORAL RESPONSES WERE MEASURED. THE RESPONSES WERE TAPE RECORDED, AND THE PERIOD OF TIME FROM THE EXPOSURE OF…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 4, Language Skills, Measurement Techniques
Sakamoto, Takahiko – 1974
"A Psychological Study of Flexibility in Reading," the first in this collection of four articles, attempted to determine how flexibility in reading develops from elementary to junior high school. The results indicated that children in every grade in this experiment were flexible in reading, that is, they changed their speed of reading…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Japanese, Languages, Periodicals
Downing, Frank Michael – 1974
The problems stated for this investigation were as follows: (1) to determine if there is an increase in critical reading ability for students from grades thirteen to fourteen; (2) to determine if there is a difference in the critical reading ability of males and females in grades thirteen and fourteen; (3) to determine the relationship between…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Doctoral Dissertations, Higher Education, Intelligence
Boyce, Max W., Comp. – 1976
This bibliography, intended as a supplement to a previous bibliography (see ED 099 830), includes 152 listings of articles, books, papers, and dissertations containing a significant cloze component. Entries are listed alphabetically by author. This supplement includes 152 entries, making the total of entries in the original bibliography and this…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Clark, Cavannah Mewborn – 1974
This report is concerned with the status of former clinic subjects who completed instruction two to seven years prior to this study. Changes in reading performance were investigated, actual reading level was compared with the reading expectancy level for each student, and the subjects' and parents' ratings of the subjects' reading performance and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Centers
Stedman, Nathan Alexander, III – 1971
Having been taught for one year from a curriculum designed to enhance comprehension of syntactic structures, two groups (experimental and control) of fourth grade students were tested by two special cloze instruments to examine the effect of the curriculum on the comprehension of syntactic structures which the students encountered in reading.…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, English Curriculum, Grade 4, Language Patterns
Silverston, Randall A.; Deichmann, John W. – 1974
The purpose of this study was to design and test a remedial reading instructional strategy for word recognition skills utilizing specific intersensory transfer components. The subjects were 56 high school sophomores and juniors enrolled in special education classes. Eight subjects were randomly selected from each of seven special education…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Difficulties, Reading Research
Chisholm, Diane; Knafle, June D. – 1975
In a partial replication of Samuels' (1972) experiments, 60 first grade pupils were assigned to a letter name group, a letter discrimination group, or a control group to investigate the effect of letter name knowledge on learning to read words. Artificial letters formulated by Gibson, et al. (1962) were used instead of those of Samuels, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Character Recognition, Elementary Education, Letters (Alphabet)
Muhs, Bob – 1973
The objective of this remediation handbook is to help the classroom teacher to diagnose and remedy the various kinds of problems grouped under the heading of reading disability. The handbook is organized into two volumes: volume one constitutes a reading disabilities checklist which can be reproduced by the teacher as an observational guide.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Diagnosis
McCullough, Constance M. – 1974
This paper gives an overview of the program for the Fifth International Reading Association World Congress on Reading and reviews some of the works and research of educational authorities and how these affect reading. The contents include: "Symposium A," which addresses cognitive functions required for reading, comprehension, and how ability and…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement
Biemiller, Andrew – 1973
The development of oral reading speed in the early elementary years and an examination of some underlying abilities that may be involved in individual differences in reading speed and ability are the concerns of this study. Cross-sectional and longitudinal data relating the time required to read orally 50 unrelated letters, 50 unrelated words, and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Oral Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Development
Motta, Janice; And Others – 1974
This paper discusses several evaluative methods that are available for use in a reading program that is aimed at English as a Second Language (ESL) students. The contents include: "Evaluation," which discusses the role of evaluation in reading; "Teacher Observation," which looks at how the teacher can evaluate the reading progress of students…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Informal Reading Inventories, Reading, Reading Ability
Mueller, John H. – 1974
It has been shown that incidental stimulus attributes are not utilized as much under conditions of high anxiety. It was hypothesized that the nature of this restricted encoding may be interpreted within a levels-of-processing framework. The physical attributes of verbal items (e.g., orthography, sound) may be thought of as shallow features,…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Information Processing, Information Theory, Reading
Grotelueschen, Arden; McGaw, Barry – 1973
The purposes of this study were to test for both forward and backward effects of inserted questions in prose material, and to determine the conditions under which each in most effective. The conditions examined were the relationship between the inserted questions and the subsequent questions on which learning facilitation was revealed, and the…
Descriptors: College Students, Questioning Techniques, Reading, Reading Ability
National Center for Health Statistics (DHEW/PHS), Hyattsville, MD. – 1973
This report presents information on the extent of illiteracy among American youths as assessed by a test specially constructed for this purpose and administered as part of the Health Examination Survey during 1966-70. The test consisted of two parts, one focusing on reading ability and a second one on writing. For the purposes of this report, if a…
Descriptors: Illiteracy, Junior High Schools, Reading, Reading Ability
