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Download full textMelowsky, Fred; Ray, Joseph B. – 1975
A comparison of test results on the Visual Discrimination Test was made between a group of 22 reading disabled children and 22 children who were reading on or above grade level. Both groups were of average or above-average intelligence and the two groups were matched for age and sex. The mean age was 10 years and 3 months and all the reading…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Education, Perception Tests
Fox, Dickie Lee – 1977
The study reported in this paper was designed to describe the differences between the reading-difficulty levels of primary textbooks used in first-semester freshman general studies courses and the reading skills of the students enrolled in those courses, and to compare the Flesch Reading Ease Formula with the SMOG Grading Formula. Separate…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading
Harty, Kathleen Fahey – 1975
The purpose of this study was to compare the characteristics of kindergarten readers with those of children who entered kindergarten but could not read. One hundred thirty children were identified as readers and 130 children were randomly selected from each of the readiness and non-readiness groups in the Madison, Wisconsin public schools. A…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Failure, Kindergarten Children
Mock, Karen R. – 1976
In order to examine the relationship of audiovisual factors and reading ability to children's television viewing strategies, the eye movements of 30 boys, aged 8 to 10 years, were recorded while they watched a televised display in which audiovisual factors varied systematically. Selected segments of "The Electric Company" were used to…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Cues, Educational Television, Elementary Education
Smith, Marshall S., Ed. – 1975
The problem of this conference panel was to explore attentional and motivational systems and the factors in classroom management that influence them. The contents of this panel report consist of three approaches to the problem: the study of the psychological state of children as they take part in schooling, with special consideration given to the…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Classroom Environment, Conference Reports, Motivation
Ash, Michael J.; Buckland, Pearl R. – 1975
The study investigated the visual discrimination abilities of children who varied in their ability to recognize words. Measures of word recognition and intelligence were obtained in 87 first-, second-, and third-grade subjects. All subjects then performed a visual discrimination task which uses artificial graphemes as stimuli. The task required…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Elementary School Students, Intelligence Differences, Primary Education
Jelfo, Donald T. – 1974
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between student verbal ability and performance in an introductory United States history class at a comprehensive community college. For the purposes of this study, performance was defined as grade point average and rate of persistence. Because of degree requirements, students at…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, College Students, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Lee, Glenda E. – 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between the academic achievement and academic ability of students who did and those who did not request assistance in reading. Subjects used in the study were 416 entering students at Middlesex Community College in the fall of 1973. Responses on tests of reading ability,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropout Characteristics, Logical Thinking, Reading Ability
Wiener, Morton; Cromer, Ward – 1970
The applicability of a proposed category system for identifying different types of poor readers in grade 7 was investigated. Three variables were used: vocabulary level, degree of consensual response to meaning, and response to organization when it was added to the reading material. Systematically combining the three levels of response produced…
Descriptors: Classification, Comprehension, Context Clues, Grade 5
Scott, Louise T. – 1970
The question of what secondary school can do to cope with the large number of poor readers, the high relationship between dropouts and reading abilities, the widely varying abilities within the classrooms, and the increasing lack of interest in reading among young people is discussed. A secondary language arts program for nonacademic students that…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Language Arts, Low Ability Students, Reading Ability
Dykstra, Robert – 1970
The relationships between prereading measures of auditory discrimination, letter knowledge, and intelligence and reading ability were investigated for pupils who completed grades 1 and 2 in four different types of instructional programs--conventional basal reading programs, i/t/a programs, language-experience approaches, and code-emphasis…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Grade 2
Dankworth, Richard T. – 1970
The objective of the research was to determine the relationship of 8 variables to the educational achievement of 178 Indian public secondary school students in Nevada. The 8 variables were residence environment, mental ability, reading ability, anxiety, self-concept, achievement motive, verbal concept choice, and interaction with the dominant…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Anxiety, Cultural Differences
Stanchfield, Jo M. – 1969
A 6-year research project which investigated sex differences in beginning reading in the Los Angeles City Schools is reported. In 1962-63 approximately 550 first-grade children were taught reading in sex-segregated groups. It was found that boys grouped together did not gain significantly more than those in heterogeneous sex groups and that girls'…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Learning
Peer reviewedWeintraub, Samuel, Comp.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1974
Three hundred and sixty-nine reports of reading research published between July 1, 1972, and June 30, 1973, are summarized for educators and researchers. The research studies are categorized into six main areas, four of which have been further subcategorized. The majority of studies reported were classified into two of the six major categories,…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Learning Disabilities, Literature Reviews, Reading Ability
Blair, Judith R. – 1974
The purposes of this study were to investigate the status of nonfiction in the reading interests of second, third, and fourth graders and to determine the effectiveness of a personal reading record as a measure of reading interests. All students in the second, third, and fourth grades of a middle-class rural area in central New Jersey served as…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Independent Reading
