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Kraut, Alan G.; And Others – 1979
This study focused on two questions concerning children's attention to verbal stimulus: How do children of different reading ability attend to repeatedly presented words? Are there differences in children's patterns of attention to words as compared to less meaningful materials? Toward the end of an academic year, 40 first-graders and 40…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Cognitive Processes, Color
Hoffman, James V. – 1979
The sensitivity of the cumulative cloze task to the effects of contextual buildup across units of discourse larger than the sentence was investigated, with three experiments focusing on a comparative analysis of proficient and developmental readers. In cumulative cloze, a single target word is deleted from a passage and replaced by the same…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Context Clues
Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 24 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the influence of additional supportive context upon the reader's ability to identify the main idea of a paragraph; effects of metaphors and paraphrases as…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education
Ross, Novella – 1980
A study was undertaken to determine the operational reading levels and skills of beginning office employees and to compare the readability of classroom and on-the-job materials. Clerks and secretaries who had been employed for two years or less were observed and interviewed to collect the data. Statistical analysis revealed that secretaries read…
Descriptors: Bookkeeping, Clerical Occupations, Comparative Analysis, Job Performance
Foorman, Barbara R.; Kinoshita, Yoshiko – 1981
The role of linguistic structure in a referential communication task was examined by comparing encoding and decoding performance of 80 five- and seven-year-old children from Japan and the United States. The linguist structure demanded by the task was the simultaneous encoding and decoding of attributes of size, color, pattern, and shape. (In…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Early Childhood Education
Dupuis, Mary M. – 1980
As part of a study of the basic skills of secondary level education students, a study of prospective teachers' reading ability was conducted at Pennsylvania State University. Subjects were 47 students in secondary education. Two separate assessments of reading were used, the Nelson-Denny Reading Test and a criterion referenced test of reading…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Education Majors, Educational Assessment, Educational Research
Day, Kaaren C.; Day, H. D. – 1978
A study originally involving 56 children from four schools was undertaken to observe the development of children's oral language and concepts of print during the kindergarten year using the Record of Oral Language (ROL) and the Concepts about Print (Sand) tests. In addition, the Sand test was administered early in the first grade to the available…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Concept Formation, Kindergarten Children, Language Acquisition
Johnson, Dale D.; And Others – 1978
Three paradigms for assessing children's vocabulary knowledge were evaluated in this study: synonym, synonym in context, and cloze. The vocabulary tests, a paper-and-pencil adaptation of the on-line tests used in two previous studies, were administered to 830 second through seventh grade students. Subjects performed similarly on the three formats…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Educational Testing, Elementary Education
PDF pending restorationSLOBODZIAN, EVELYN B. – 1968
THE ILLINOIS TEST OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ABILITIES, A TEST DESIGNED FOR CHILDREN AGED 3-9, IS OF VALUE TO THE KINDERGARTEN OR FIRST-GRADE TEACHER IN DIAGNOSING FOR THE PURPOSE OF REMEDIATION, ESPECIALLY IN COMMUNITIES WHERE DISADVANTAGED AREAS EXIST. FROM ITS USE, THE TEACHER CAN DETERMINE BACKGROUND INADEQUACIES, DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE LEVEL OF A…
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary School Students, Individual Development
Pryor, Guy C. – 1968
An evaluation is provided of a project designed to create a bilingual environment and a program of bilingual instruction for first and second grade Spanish speaking children. A comparison is included of the language development and reading ability of the students taught in Spanish and English with those taught in English only. A pre- and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment
Aliotti, Nicholas C. – 1978
Although sex differences in reading and related language functions have frequently been reported for both average and retarded readers, the explanations thus far proposed (maturation rate, sex-role development, textbook content, "female bias," and psycho-social factors) do not satisfactorily account for these differences. One hypothesis that might…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Elementary Education, Genetics, Heredity
Kishi, Akemi – 1976
To aid in the construction of effective task analysis inventories, this technical report discusses: (1) an optimum questionnaire length that adequately covers Marine tasks without unduly fatiguing respondents; (2) procedures for the phrasing of task statements to avoid ambiguities and be understandable to as broad a range of Marines as is…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Item Analysis, Job Analysis, Military Personnel
PDF pending restorationSchwartz, Lester J. – 1976
This report evaluates a program designed to increase the reading ability of disadvantaged elementary school students in New York City. Three hundred twenty-five students, grades three through six, from three Harlem elementary schools were enrolled in the program on the basis of being at least a year below their expected reading levels. The…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 4
Lorton, Mary; Kukuk, Cristopher – 1977
A study was conducted to determine the relationship between fourteen social process variables (relating to perinatal events, early language patterns, parental/home environment, and child behavior patterns) and the reading performance of retarded readers. The subjects were 180 children, aged seven through fifteen, randomly selected from among…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Influences, Grade Repetition
Brace, J. L. – 1957
This pamphlet discusses the need for reliable standardized tests for the selection and classification of Welsh-dominant students in Wales and for the evaluation of their language skills. Because of the correlation in performance, the standardized word-recognition test described here applies to predominantly Welsh-background individuals and not to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Educational Policy
