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Download full textABEL, GEORGIE LEE; LOWENFELD, BERTHOLD – 1967
THIS THREE-PART REPORT DESCRIBES THE STATUS OF BRAILLE READING INSTRUCTION IN LOCAL AND RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1965, PRESENTS STATISTICS DESCRIBING PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF 200 STUDENTS TESTED AS PART OF THIS STUDY, AND PRESENTS ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF THE DATA GATHERED FROM THE TESTS. THE STATUS OF BRAILLE READING…
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Handicapped Children, Questionnaires
KOEHLER, WARREN B. – 1960
EFFORTS TO LEARN HOW THE ARRANGEMENTS OF THE PRINTED TEXT AFFECTS READING EFFICIENCY WERE SUMMARIZED. SEVERAL ASSUMPTIONS WERE BASIC. FIRST, ONE OF THE PURPOSES IS DEFINED AS INVESTIGATION OF ANY IDEA WHICH MIGHT LEAD TO RAISING THE EDUCATIONAL LEVEL. SECOND, IT IS ASSUMED THAT THE DISCOVERY OF A MEANS OF RAISING THE LEVEL OF READING COMPREHENSION…
Descriptors: Publications, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Wark, David M. – 1968
The case histories of five students enrolled in a university course in how to study are reported. The students ranged in age from 18 to 35, included two males and three females, and varied in school experience from no college in one case and some college in two cases to college degrees in two cases. Students were initially taught to chart their…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Behavior Change, Reading Improvement, Reading Rate
Sacks, George A.; Sacks, Florence – 1968
A study of the reading rate and comprehension of 10 aerospace engineers and analysis of the readability of sample company communications were undertaken. The Nelson-Denny Reading Test comprehension scores for the engineers, when compared with scores of a norm group provided by the Nelson-Denny Test Manual, were nearly the same in mean and standard…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Engineers, Functional Reading, Professional Personnel
Maxwell, Martha J. – 1968
A program for skimming and scanning improvement was developed from college textbook material selected from social sciences, science, and essays and included a section on scanning bibliographies and indexes. Four types of exercises were written for each selection: skimming for the main idea, scanning for details, scanning for words and phrases, and…
Descriptors: College Programs, Reading Improvement, Reading Programs, Reading Rate
Sakamoto, Takahiko – 1974
"A Psychological Study of Flexibility in Reading," the first in this collection of four articles, attempted to determine how flexibility in reading develops from elementary to junior high school. The results indicated that children in every grade in this experiment were flexible in reading, that is, they changed their speed of reading…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Japanese, Languages, Periodicals
Schoof, Loren T., II – 1975
Use of the Optacon, a reading aid for the blind, was explored in regard to user occupations, factors affecting reading speed, and how the machine is used on the job. Data were obtained from a survey of 250 Optacon users; from statistical analyses of information gathered about 41 Optacon trainers; and from a telephone survey of 17 blind people in…
Descriptors: Adults, Blindness, Employment Opportunities, Job Skills
Biemiller, Andrew – 1973
The development of oral reading speed in the early elementary years and an examination of some underlying abilities that may be involved in individual differences in reading speed and ability are the concerns of this study. Cross-sectional and longitudinal data relating the time required to read orally 50 unrelated letters, 50 unrelated words, and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Oral Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Development
Calfee, Robert C.; Jameson, Penny – 1971
The effect on reading speed of the number of target items being searched for and the number of target occurrences in the text was examined. The subjects, 24 college undergraduate volunteers, were presented with a list of target words, and then they read a passage for comprehension which contained occurrences of the target words (Experiment1) or…
Descriptors: College Students, Memory, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate
Berger, Allen – 1972
The latest thinking on reading rate and flexibility is discussed in this paper. Included are highlights of the recently completed reading rate portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The current state of knowledge is assessed and promising research and useful writings in English and Spanish are cited. (Author/WR) Aspect of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Skills, Reading, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedSteiner, Karen – Journal of Reading, 1978
Reviews materials on speed reading located in the ERIC data base. (MKM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Reading Rate
Peer reviewedRoss, Patrecia A. – Reading Horizons, 1978
Describes methods for increasing the reading fluency of slow readers; presents a step-by-step method for developing fluency through oral reading. (MAI)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Poetry, Reading Development, Reading Difficulty
American Education, 1977
Because of technical advances and changing attitudes, hearing-impaired persons can now enjoy films and TV programs that their handicap had previously denied them. (Editor)
Descriptors: Captions, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Illustrations
Lovitt, Thomas C.; And Others – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1987
An alternative to readability formulas and achievement tests to let high school students read orally and then recount what they read. Vocabulary scores and oral reading rates were demonstrated as the best predictors of test performance with a minimum oral reading rate of 135 words per minute necessary to profit from textbooks. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, High Schools, Oral Reading, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedBruteig, J. M. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1987
Analysis of late-blind Norwegian adults' (N=35) reading rates (texts and single words) in contracted and uncontracted Braille revealed that: rates were higher for reading contracted versions of text and single words, and highest for contracted single words. "Slow" readers saved more time when reading texts which frequently used…
Descriptors: Adults, Adventitious Impairments, Blindness, Braille
