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Download full textSUMMERS, EDWARD G.; AND OTHERS – 1968
THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY PRESENTS 849 CITATIONS AND ANNOTATIONS ON PUBLISHED RESEARCH LITERATURE ON READING TAKEN FROM THE ANNUAL SUMMARIES OF INVESTIGATIONS ON READING COMPILED ON A YEARLY BASIS BY THE READING RESEARCH CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. THE CITATIONS FROM THE ANNUAL SUMMARIES FOR 1964-66 WERE TRANSFERRED TO MAGNETIC TAPE WHICH WAS…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Annotated Bibliographies, College Programs, Elementary Education
SUMMERS, EDWARD G.; AND OTHERS – 1968
THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY PRESENTS 2,857 CITATIONS AND ANNOTATIONS ON PUBLISHED RESEARCH LITERATURE ON READING TAKEN FROM THE ANNUAL SUMMARIES OF INVESTIGATIONS ON READING COMPILED ON A YEARLY BASIS BY THE READING RESEARCH CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. THE CITATIONS FROM THE ANNUAL SUMMARIES FOR 1900-1949 WERE TRANSFERRED TO MAGNETIC TAPE WHICH WAS…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Annotated Bibliographies, College Programs, Elementary Education
FAUSTMAN, MARION NEAL – 1967
A STUDY OF KINDERGARTEN PERCEPTION WAS MADE TO DETERMINE IF A FORMAL PROGRAM IN PERCEPTION IN KINDERGARTEN WOULD CONTRIBUTE TO THE GROWTH OF PERCEPTION IN CHILDREN AT THE END OF THE KINDERGARTEN YEAR AND TO SUCCESS AT THE FIRST-GRADE LEVEL. FOURTEEN KINDERGARTEN CLASSES WERE CHOSEN AT RANDOM FOR A CONTROL GROUP, AND 14 CLASSES WERE CHOSEN AT…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Kindergarten, Perceptual Development
SUMMERS, EDWARD G.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY PRESENTS 1,913 CITATIONS AND ANNOTATIONS ON PUBLISHED RESEARCH LITERATURE IN READING TAKEN FROM THE ANNUAL SUMMARIES OF INVESTIGATIONS IN READING COMPILED ON A YEARLY BASIS BY THE READING RESEARCH CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. THE CITATIONS FROM THE ANNUAL SUMMARIES FOR 1950-1963 WERE TRANSFERRED TO MAGNETIC TAPE WHICH WAS…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Annotated Bibliographies, College Programs, Elementary Education
COHEN, S. ALAN – 1963
SHORT ANSWERS ARE GIVEN TO QUESTIONS ASKED ABOUT GENERAL FINDINGS IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, BASED ON EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE COLLECTED IN RESEARCH THESES AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY. EIGHT QUESTION AREAS DEAL WITH STUDENTS IN GRADES 4-6. READING, BOTH ORAL AND SILENT, WORD ANALYSIS AND SPELLING, CHILDREN'S INTEREST AND PREFERENCES, VOCABULARY, MENTAL IMAGERY,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Primary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement
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
GUNDERSON, DORIS V. – 1964
RESEARCH IS COMPILED ON THE TOPIC OF READING READINESS. NUMEROUS RESEARCH STUDIES HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT CHILDREN VARY GREATLY IN THE DEGREE TO WHICH THEY POSSESS "READING READINESS" AND THAT CHILDREN ARE DEFINITELY AIDED BY A READING READINESS PROGRAM. DISAGREEMENT EXISTS AMONG READING AUTHORITIES ON CERTAIN ASPECTS OF READINESS. AREAS…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Reading, Reading Development, Reading Instruction
BIEMILLER, ANDREW J.; LEVIN, HARRY – 1965
VERBAL REACTION TIMES TO WORD FORMS THAT DIFFER IN THEIR PRONOUNCEABILITY WERE ASSESSED FOR SIGNFICANCE OF CORRELATION. SINGLE PSEUDOWORDS OF VARYING PRONOUNCEABILITY WERE SHOWN TO 36 THIRD AND FOURTH GRADERS, AND THEIR REACTION TIMES FOR ORAL RESPONSES WERE MEASURED. THE RESPONSES WERE TAPE RECORDED, AND THE PERIOD OF TIME FROM THE EXPOSURE OF…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 4, Language Skills, Measurement Techniques
ROBINSON, HELEN M. – 1964
SIXTEEN MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN ENGLISH MET FOR A 3-DAY CONFERENCE TO PLAN COOPERATIVE FIRST-GRADE STUDIES FOR 1964-65. CONSULTANTS IN RESEARCH DESIGN, EVALUATION, AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS WERE PROVIDED FOR SUBGROUPS WORKING ON SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS. SMALL SUBGROUPS PREPARED RECOMMENDATIONS WHICH WERE UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED…
Descriptors: Conferences, Consultants, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
Greenlaw, M. Jean; Kurth, Ruth Justine – 1980
A study was conducted to determine whether a particular definition or definitions of reading comprehension were widely held by teachers at the elementary and secondary school levels. One hundred forty-seven teachers responded to a questionnaire ranking eight definitions of reading comprehension from most agreeable to least agreeable. The…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Models, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Lesgold, Alan M.; Perfetti, Charles A. – 1980
Much of the current research in reading processes has been aided by movements in experimental psychology known as information processing psychology, cognitive psychology, and cognitive science. The information processing movement has contributed three important ideas: (1) Logogen theory of a cognitive response unit that is sensitive to the set of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Epistemology, Language Processing, Learning Theories
Taylor, Elizabeth – 1980
A study was designed to discover whether readers use simple story grammar categories (setting, beginning, development, and conclusion) to organize the propositions of a story. Nineteen proficient readers were given a list of randomly ordered propositions that made up a simple story structure. Each reader was instructed to group the propositions…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Organization
Fry, Edward – 1980
Modern reading theories that are concerned with the reading process of either mature or immature readers show no clearcut concern with unit size. The various graphic units that are encountered by the reader include letters, graphemes, clusters (such as blends), syllables, phonograms, affixes and roots, words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs,…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Models, Reading Processes, Reading Research
Brewer, William F.; Lichtenstein, Edward H. – 1980
An experiment was carried out to examine individual story schemata and a story theory. The theory proposed relating structural characteristics of narratives to the reader's affective response and the reader's intuitions about what constitutes a story. Two levels of narrative structure are distinguished by the theory: the chronological sequence of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation, Discourse Analysis
Kurth, Ruth Justine; Greenlaw, M. Jean – 1980
A study was undertaken to describe the comprehension instruction that occurs during formal reading classes in elementary schools. Sixteen kindergarten through sixth grade teachers were observed during 48 hours of reading instruction over a three-day period. Nine specific categories of comprehension and six general categories of reading instruction…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Observation
