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Download full textChidichimo, Salvatore P. – 1971
From a questionnaire given to five practicing school psychologists, the author gathered data about the incidence of reading retardation in cases referred to school psychologists. The cases included 96 students from three New Jersey school districts, one California school district, and one Tennessee school district. Approximately 69 percent of the…
Descriptors: Case Records, Case Studies, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Research
Telfer, Hedy R. – 1969
The use of electric typewriters for beginning reading instruction was investigated. Thirty-six freshmen and sophomore education majors worked for 10 weeks with nine pairs of L-level (first-grade) children from the Wisconsin University laboratory school on SRA materials, Dolch phrases, and creative writing. Half used typewriters and the rest,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Creative Writing, Grade 1
Robinson, Richard D., Comp. – 1972
The aim of this bibliography is to provide a reference on the cloze procedure for the practitioner and the researcher. The selection of material was done on the basis of (1) the importance of the source as a contribution to cloze research, (2) the extent and the usefulness of the source's bibliography as a guide to related research, (3) the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, Readability, Reading Ability
Cawley, John F.; And Others – 1972
The purpose of this book is to provide the special educator and the general educator with a basic reference tool concerning the slow learner and the reading problem. The text is divided into two sections. The first section, "An Overview of Selected Factors Relative to Reading and the Slow Learner," includes six chapters that discuss selected…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Mental Retardation, Reading, Reading Ability
Hodges, Elaine Joy – 1972
The purpose of this study was to compare the results obtained from a cloze test with the results obtained from an informal reading inventory in establishing the functional reading levels of selected third grade students of varying reading abilities. The subjects consisted of 100 third grade students. The following tests are given: the…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Functional Reading, Grade 3, Reading
Maresh, Rober T. – 1971
An analysis of vertical grade grouping was conducted with 108 pupils in grades one through six. The control group consisted of 107 pupils arranged in a singly graded manner. Three hypotheses stated in null form were: (1) There will be no significant differences in change in attitudes toward reading when comparisons are made between vertically and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Reading, Reading Ability
McProuty, Vivian Helen – 1971
The purpose of this study was to develop and apply a composite test instrument in order to compare the academic performance and cognitive functioning of boys in educationally handicapped and regular classes. Ten subtests were chosen from standard tests. Tests of seriation and classification were constructed; the battery was then administered to 64…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Achievement, Classification, Cognitive Development
Merlin, Shirley B.; Tseng, M. S. – 1972
Measures of psycholinguistic and reading abilities of 25 educable mentally handicapped (EMR) good readers and 25 EMR poor readers in the intermediate and junior high school special education classes were compared with one way analyses of covariance, using chronological age, mental age, and IQ as covariates. In comparison, the good reader grouped…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Intermediate Grades, Junior High School Students, Mental Retardation
Ohaver, Allan Roy – 1971
Syntactic and semantic cueing were examined as used in oral reading by 30 college freshmen, half of whom were higher in vocabulary on the Nelson-Denny Reading Test and half of whom were higher in comprehension scores on the same test. The subjects were selected from 168 freshmen, all of whom were poor readers and spoke predominantly English. All…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Language Research, Models, Oral Reading
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1972
The Remedial Reading Laboratories program was designed to improve the reading achievement of disadvantaged students in grades four through 12 and thereby enable them to profit from regular classroom instruction. The program also aimed at improving the students' self-esteem and self-confidence. In 1969-70 classes were offered to over 1,000…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Mexican Americans, Reading
Zakia, Richard D. – 1972
The pamphlet focused first on questions concerned with the relative ability of deaf and hearing students to visually process words when presented letter by letter, and with relationships existing among deaf students between the ability to process words presented tachistoscopically, letter by letter, and the ability of the same student to process…
Descriptors: College Students, Exceptional Child Research, Finger Spelling, Hearing Impairments
Rothstein, Evelyn – 1976
Discussed is an oral reading procedure for children with reading problems which assesses a reader's competency through an analysis of comprehension evidenced by meaningful versus non-meaningful alterations to the reading text. It is explained that this analysis indicates that the poor reader's needs frequently may be at the syntactic and semantic…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Miscue Analysis, Oral Reading
Arnold, Drew; And Others – 1977
This study examined the effect of reading ability and frequency of object association on picture-verification latency in a group of 40 fifth graders. Subjects received sets of two slides each, the first of which was a sentence in which the subject and object were in either frequent or infrequent association. When the children had read and had…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Grade 5
Stice, Carole – 1976
Teacher attitudes toward reading and their knowledge of techniques to improve students' reading skills were assessed in a questionnaire survey of faculty members at Tennessee State University. Results from the 72 valid responses (out of 175 questionnaires distributed) indicated that college teachers need, and would like, more information about the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Reading Ability, Reading Instruction
Harber, Jean R. – 1976
At present, there is virtually no empirical evidence of the success of educational techniques designed to minimize the interference of black English on the acquisition of reading skills. The 180 black, inner-city third and fifth graders who participated in this study were selected in order to determine whether the discrepancy between performance…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Elementary Education, Interference (Language), Language Research
