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Klein, Howard – 1980
Current textbooks on reading recommend six scoring systems to be used with cloze tests to find material of suitable difficulty for instruction. These six scoring systems, when applied to a single data source--300 cloze scores obtained from ninth grade students tested with ninth grade content materials--produced varied placements which at present…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Junior High Schools, Readability, Reading Ability
Download full textStetson, Elton G.; Wiley, Patricia D. – 1981
The Reading-Spelling Vocabulary Program (RSVP) is a list of 900 words of highest frequency selected from 14 previous studies of words in print, spoken vocabulary, and children's and adults' handwriting. The words are divided into four levels and 60 lessons of 15 words each. When a sample test was constructed and administered to 266 elementary…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, Reading Ability
Massey, Randy H.; Mathews, John J. – 1980
A study was conducted to examine the reading levels of United States Air Force civilian employees according to occupational groupings and grade structure. Approximately 1,050 Air Force civilian subjects were tested on the Nelson-Denny Reading Test or the California Reading Test. Subjects were selected from eight Air Force bases representing the…
Descriptors: Adults, Government Employees, Job Skills, Occupations
COOPER, CARIN – 1968
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN READING ABILITY AND SYNTACTICAL MEDIATION IN PAIRED-ASSOCIATE (PA) LEARNING WAS EXAMINED. SUBJECTS WERE 64 FOURTH AND SECOND GRADERS IN WISCONSIN WHO WERE GROUPED ACCORDING TO GRADE LEVEL, TWO READING LEVELS, TWO TYPES OF INSTRUCTION, AND SEX. THE INSTRUCTIONAL TYPES WERE MEDIATION AND NONMEDIATION. THE STIMULI WERE 16…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 4, Learning, Mediation Theory
Falk, Joy Wollin – 1976
The purpose of this investigation was to examine syntax comprehension by poor and average prereaders in first grade and poor and average readers in second grade, to determine whether a relationship exists between reading ability or reading readiness and comprehension of syntax. Subjects were 55 first-grade children and 56 second-grade children of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary School Students, Primary Education, Reading Ability
PDF pending restorationMathews, John J.; And Others – 1978
To assess the reading ability of military service applicants and accessions, and to determine the relationship between Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) measures and reading scores, 2,432 subjects were given the Gates MacGinitie reading test and a subsample of 818 were given the Nelson-Denny reading test. The median reading grade…
Descriptors: Mastery Tests, Military Personnel, Postsecondary Education, Predictive Measurement
Aukerman, Robert – 1979
Teachers can match content reading materials with student needs and abilities in a number of ways. If textbooks are the main or only source, teachers can group students according to textbook difficulty, conduct student surveys of specific topics in the textbook, and use the textbook as a sampler or starting point for more in-depth studies of…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Readability, Reading Ability
Marshall, Nancy – 1977
Research on comprehension and recall in reading has been limited in the past to quantitative studies of the amount of text items recalled. This paper reports on two experiments that used a qualitative measure in order to investigate the differences between fluent and less fluent comprehenders and the recall processes they use. The first…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Community Colleges, Reading Ability
Van Blaricom, Ginger; White, Sandra – 1976
In this study, the effect of a passage organizer (topic sentence) on the ability to identify main ideas was tested. The second purpose of this study was to determine whether main idea comprehension is affected by the type of main idea question asked. Thirty third- and thirty fourth-grade children selected on a random basis from a semi-rural…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Paragraph Composition, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement
Hawkins, Deborah – 1976
Compared were the effects of mainstream or special class placement on the acquisition of reading skills and self concept with a total of 84 kindergarten or first grade learning disabled students. Significant differences were found between the two groups on only one of the four tests given: the letter names subtest of the Murphy-Durrell Analysis.…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming, Primary Education
Hicks, Donna Wheeler – 1974
This study was concerned with the validation of the "Hicks Cloze-Reading Test," an evaluative instrument to be used by the classroom teacher in assessing the reading ability levels of children. Three instruments, the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test," the "Standard Reading Inventory," and the "Hicks Cloze-Reading…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Reading Ability
Van Voorhees, Sylvia Nash – 1974
This study investigated the relationship between rate of information processing and critical reading and the anciallary effect of anxiety on the two variables. A tenth grade sample, consisting of 52 fast readers and 52 slow readers, was identified. All subjects in the sample had intelligence quotients of 120 or higher and vocabulary and…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Critical Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 10
Ollila, Lloyd O. – 1975
Three unjustified assumptions are often made about young beginners in reading: they all are acquainted with books and reading, the children and the teacher are thinking in the same terms when each talks about reading, and children understand the technical terms of literacy. Reading authorities refer to this lack of understanding of what the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Preschool Learning
Jampolsky, Gerald G. – 1972
This paper describes how some children with learning problems feel about themselves; points out some possible witches' tales regarding understanding and communication with such children; and discusses some clinical opinions that have been developed at the Child Center, Kentfield, regarding these children. The contents of the paper include: a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Reading, Reading Ability
Bruning, Roger; Kennedy, Dale – 1975
For this study of children's selection of key words, children in the first, third, sixth, ninth and twelfth grades were asked to identify which words, in their judgment, were key words in written materials. Relationship of these choices to skilled readers, to words derived from passage analysis, and to random selections of hypothetical subjects…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Keywords, Permuted Indexes, Reading
