The Diagnostic Reading Tests were designed to assess the reading skills of college students enrolled in reading centers. To assess the reliability of the Diagnostic Reading Tests, Survey Section, Form E (DRTE), a study was conducted with university freshmen as subjects. The DRTE was administered to 31 students in an Educational Opportunity Program…

Children's pronunciations of vowel clusters in synthetic words were analyzed in relation to common English words containing the same vowel clusters. Subjects were 436 elementary-school students of both high and low reading levels from a suburban, an urban, and a rural community. Independent variables were grade level, sex, reading level, community…

Children's pronunciations of vowel clusters in synthetic words were analyzed in relation to common English words containing the same vowel clusters. Subjects were 436 elementary students of both high and low reading levels from a suburban, an urban, and a rural community. Conclusions of the study, reported in Part 2, were (1) pronunciations more…

Children's pronunciations of vowel clusters in synthetic words were analyzed in relation to common English words containing the same vowel clusters. Subjects were 436 elementary students of both high and low reading levels from a suburban, an urban, and a rural community. Discussion of the problem and procedures of the study are found in Part 1,…

One of the ERIC/CRIER Reading Review Series, this bibliography contains 145 citations and informative abstracts which sample representative sources concerning the growth and present status of secondary reading. The bibliography is divided into four parts, each beginning with a brief explanation and discussion of the included entries. Part 1…

In November of 1965, the Provincial Executive of the Manitoba Teachers' Society established a commission made up of principals, teachers, and university professors to study reading in the Manitoba schools, including (1) reading teaching, (2) reading ability of elementary and secondary school pupils, (3) results of research elsewhere, (4)…

The hypothesis that there would be a significant difference in correct responses between a group of junior college retarded readers seeing words in context and another seeing isolated words in favor of the words-in-context group was investigated. A group of 42 retarded readers enrolled in reading and writing classes of the academic skills lab in…

A study was conducted at Clemson University involving 90 high-risk freshmen who were enrolled in special English sections on the basis of low verbal Stanford Achievement Test scores. Thirty students made up the experimental group, and 60 students, the control group. Students in the experimental group were those who volunteered to take the reading…

The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of the Frostig Developmental Program of Visual Perception in effecting gains in reading readiness scores and perceptual motor ability with kindergarten students and reading achievement scores and perceptual motor ability with grade one students. High, middle and low groups in both…

At the present time more than 600 publications concerned with individualized reading are available. The 84 items listed in this bibliography were selected to help the reader obtain varied points of view without reading 600 articles. The selected studies are arranged in four categories to include (1) carefully considered arguments for and against…

This review on the language experience approach to reading instruction for the culturally disadvantaged is one of the reading information series, designed to review the past, assess the present, and predict the future of reading education. The target audience are those with specific professional interests and needs: researchers, professors, and…

The purpose of this study was to explore the feasibility of a competency-based model for the instruction of a course in reading methods for preservice education students. A secondary purpose was the development of staff personnel to teach this course, using a similar competency-based component. Evaluation of the model was based on observation of…

The variables used in most readability formulas consist of counts of language elements which highly relate to comprehension scores on passages of a wide range of difficulty. The variables most often used are some measure of word difficulty and yield an index score representing the style difficulty of the passages to which they are applied…

To more effectively meet individual differences and permit children to learn at their own rate, a list of behavioral objectives for teaching reading in the primary grades was developed. Nongraded primary reading skill sheets were compared with reading authorities' lists of basic reading skills, and a master skill sheet was used as the basis for…

Investigations reported during the past century have generally shown girls to be better readers than boys in the United States. Some researchers have attributed these differences to biological-maturational factors; others have suggested cultural-societal causes. The present study sought to examine this dichotomy by testing the reading ability of…