Describes a study intended to determine whether providing special reading time with a wide variety of reading materials in Spanish affects the reading abilities, reading attitudes, and academic self-concept of Hispanic high school students. US-born Hispanics rarely made use of the materials, but recent Hispanic immigrants used them extensively.…

Using eighth-grade subjects, a study examined the strategy differences between good and poor readers as they summarized what they had read. (HOD)

Investigates the reading rate and comprehension of a total of 16 individuals who represented four superior reading groups: speed readers, professionals, college students, and people who scored exceptionally high on tests. (HOD)

Tests the development of phonetic codes in the memory of 141 pairs of normal and disabled readers from 7.8 to 16.8 years of age. The measurement task assessed false-positive errors in recognition memory for foil words that rhymed with words in a memory list versus foil words that did not rhyme. (Author/CI)

Describes a study that factor analyzed questionnaire data and compared factor scores of good and poor college-level readers to determine the text-learning strategies of each group. Results, which indicate poor readers rely heavily on study strategies without an understanding of the text to be studied, have implications for remedial reading…

Compares two methods of instructing sixth grade students to use the organization of ideas in content reading as a framework for studying (map-construction and map-study procedures) with two control study methods that did not focus students' attention on text organization (question-answering and rereading procedures). Shows students benefit from…

The Auditory Cognitive Style Task (ACST) and an IQ measure were administered to 64 good and poor readers in the first and third grades. ACST results indicated that poor readers: (1) committed significantly more errors; (2) had shorter response latencies; and (3) demonstrated inefficient strategies for successful performance. (Author/BS)

Concludes that children's reading ability is not the sole reason behind their placement in particular reading groups and that teachers also consider such things as their ability to do academic work, work habits, classroom behavior, personality, and, occasionally, their home environment. (FL)

Explores the recognition and memory of words by hearing and deaf children and finds evidence relevant to the reading difficulty experienced by the deaf. (FL)

The author's philosophy of reading is that if a child is going to learn to read he must want to learn and he must know he is capable of reading. (AM)

The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2006 Assessment Framework and Specifications is intended as a blueprint for IEA's 2006 assessment of reading literacy. Concrete information about how well students can read provides policymakers and researchers in every country with insight on how to improve literacy and reading…

There has been increased interest and activity in the field of adult education during the biennium 1926-1928. The term "adult education" is used in so many ways that the question is often asked, "What is adult education?" "Adult education" came into general use in the United States soon after the World War. The shock of the war so aroused men and…

Both fourth-grade children and adult Ss searched faster for target letters through common words than nonwords (scrambled collections of letters), through third-order pseudowords than nonwords. (Editor)

Discusses a number of problems facing the Indian student and suggests how teachers and schools can alleviate some of the difficulties. (TO)