The purpose of this project was to compare the reading levels of students in vocational programs in a two-year community college with the readability levels of the materials they were required to read in their daily learning activities. The Diagnostic Reading Test, Form A, was administered to 120 students in five different occupational courses.…

Reported is an investigation of the relationship of reading ability and subject comprehension of 455 students in elementary grades. One set of hypotheses was related to student ability (reading and comprehension) and assigned textbooks and another related to student ability and selected materials in social studies and science at readability levels…

The purpose of this study was to assess the extent of the relationship between test data of problem readers diagnosed in a reading center and the kinds of recommendations made by a reading specialist at the center in the areas of phonics and comprehension. A second dimension was to assess the agreement of the diagnoses in the areas of phonics and…

This study investigated subskill variability among and within students demonstrating similar overall reading achievement. Three areas were investigated: differences in mean achievement and variability in specific reading skills among grades 4, 5, and 6, specific reading skill differences among students within grade 4, 5, or 6, and specific reading…

This book is a compilation of selected papers on comprehension and critical reading that have appeared in the annual "Proceedings in Invitational Addresses, 1965," or have been published in the journals of the International Reading Association. The articles have been grouped under several headings: (1) the nature of comprehension in reading; (2)…

A test was made to determine whether high expectancy prediction (the Rosenthal effect) would significantly effect reading achievement and IQ scores for tenth-grade students. Random samples of 112 students each were drawn from the tenth grade of a New Jersey high school representing a wide distribution of socioeconomic levels. The Sequential Tests…

Three treatment procedures were administered during a ten-week experimental period to determine their effect upon elementary school pupils' attitudes toward reading and reading related behaviors. Ninety-six subjects were selected on the basis of average intellectual ability, a reading disability indicating a discrepancy between grade level and…

Two seventh grade classes of low achievers in reading from the same school district were used to determine if a multi-media/multi-materials approach to reading could be of significant value in the teaching of reading compared to a textbook oriented reading program. Four areas of communication, those of aural, visual, oral, and written origins,…

The articles contained in this volume were selected to support and strengthen the concept of individualized instruction through diagnostic teaching. The book is divided into six major parts, each of which is preceded by a brief overview that emphasizes the main tenets advanced by the authors of the individual articles. The six major divisions of…

This study presents the results of the 1970-71 National Assessment of Reading regarding "Understanding Words and Word Relationships." Subjects at four age levels--nine, thirteen, seventeen, and young adult (26-35)--were tested on eight aspects, or themes, of reading: (1) understanding words and word relationships, (2) graphic materials,…

This study sought to determine whether it is possible to predict at the end of kindergarten those pupils who will not succeed in achieving stipulated norms for reading in the first grade, and if a summer intervention program could contravert predicted reading failure. Failure was identified as a score below the 25th percentile on the Stanford…

Designed to treat reading problems which are beyond the scope of regular classroom reading instruction, the clinic program provides for short, moderate, and long term remediation. Diagnosis of pupils referred by the schools is conducted by a team consisting of a reading clinician, psychologist, nurse and speech and hearing specialist. Based on the…

The three primary objectives of the Project Conquest program are (1) to raise the reading ability of mentally able disadvantaged children to where they can function successfully in regular classrooms, (2) to improve their self-concepts and academic aspirations, and (3) to train regular classroom teachers in remedial reading techniques. Children…

The Wayne County Pre-Reading Program for Preventing Reading Failure is an individually, diagnostically prescribed, perceptual-cognitive-linguistic development program. The program utilizes the largest compilation of prescriptively coded, reading readiness materials to be assigned prior to and concurrent with first-year reading instruction. The…

This correlational study of animal identifications, learning preferences, reading, and reading-related academic skills uncovered several clear patterns of relationship. Data were derived from a subsample of 94 tenth-grade students, who were drawn from over 1,000 randomly selected subjects in grades seven through twelve at a large, predominantly…