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Peer reviewedChambers, Aidan – Children's Literature in Education, 1975
Examines the results of the Schools Council study in Britain on children's reading habits and interests, concluding that the results need to be acted on if the reading of British children is to be improved. (RB)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Reading Habits, Reading Improvement
Kelly, Ann Marie – Elementary English, 1975
The study found that the children who were reading using an experience story approach had a sight vocabulary 22 percent greater than the basal group readers. (JH)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Grade 3, Language Experience Approach, Reading
Science News, 1975
Describes three tests with college-aged students to investigate whether females and males read phonetically or visually and if the difference is sex-related. (GS)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Reading Ability, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Processes
Peer reviewedDavey, Beth; Moretz, Sarah – Reading World, 1975
Reports on a survey examining the occurrence, definitions, and inferred meanings of technical vocabulary in the professional literature on decoding. (RB)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedPedrini, D. T.; Pedrini, Bonnie C. – Reading Improvement, 1975
Examines the relationship between reading skills and academic success among college students. (RB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Grade Prediction, Higher Education
Guice, Billy M. – J Reading Behav, 1969
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Creativity, Intelligence
Peer reviewedShearron, Gilbert F. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Primary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Readiness
Peer reviewedFry, Edward B. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Graphs, Oral Reading, Predictive Validity
Smith, Carl B.; Austin, Mary C. – Reading Res Quart, 1969
Descriptors: Developmental Reading, Federal Programs, Population Distribution, Reading Programs
Nemeth, Joseph S. – J Reading Spec, 1969
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Knowledge Level, Professional Education, Reading Research
International Reading Association, Newark, DE. – 1981
The introductory section of the International Reading Association (IRA) annual report for 1980-81 briefly discusses recent developments concerning the organization, including its efforts to improve reading instruction, its federal budget monitoring activities in Washington, D. C., and its recent work on a dictionary of reading terms. The body of…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, International Organizations, Organizations (Groups), Professional Associations
Comparison of Effects of Different Forms of Presentation on the Recall and Retrieval of Information.
Jonassen, David H.; Pace, Ann Jaffe – 1982
A study compared the relative effects of typographically cued or mapped text, intact text with signaling, and intact text without signaling on the recall and retrieval of information from prose passages. (Signaling, a noncontent aspect of prose, emphasizes certain aspects of the semantic content or points out aspects of the structure of content.)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Coherence, College Students, Higher Education
Hanson, Marjorie; And Others – 1979
Reading researchers should be encouraged to include assessments of practical significance in all their journal articles, reviews of research, technical reports, and dissertations. The tendency has been to base the integration of data entirely on the results of tests for the significance of differences, overlooking the assessment of practical…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Research Methodology, Research Needs, Research Problems
Download full textBeech, John R. – 1981
Two new spelling systems, Regular Spelling (RS) and World English Spelling (WES), were tested for their effects on 26 adults. The subjects read passages in one of these new orthographies, timed themselves, completed a comprehension test, and rated the ease of learning to spell and to read the new orthography in relation to traditional orthography.…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adults, Change Strategies, Orthographic Symbols
Bent, Joanne – 1981
A study investigated the readability levels of different editions of six college textbooks published in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s ("A History of Civilization,""Government by the People,""Economics,""Introduction to Modern Business,""Introduction to Psychology," and "Pscyhology"). The study also compared the number of pages and chapters appearing…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Higher Education, Readability, Reading Research
