To test the hypothesis that aspects of one's personality are associated with expansion of his or her vocabulary, a study focused on thirteen students of various ages who constituted a vocabulary development class. Students were taught techniques for discovering meaning through context or extracting meaning through word structure. Considerable time…

Several hundred men who were dyslexic as high school students, and for whom considerable early test data were available, were surveyed as adults. Subjects included alumni from 1940 through 1977 of the Gow School, a private secondary school for dyslexic boys. Their occupations were compared to those of a control group, the fathers of both groups,…

Concludes that low achievers benefit from counseling-oriented reading programs. (RB)

Describes a study of the relationship between silent and oral reading comprehension as measured by an individualized diagnostic instrument. (RB)

Concludes that college professors who teach preservice reading courses do not agree on what reading terms should be taught, their definitions, or the generalizations to be used in phonic analysis. (RB)

Indicates that both good and poor readers who utilized material organized according to the guidelines established by the Frayer Model of Concept Attainment received significantly higher comprehension scores than did good and poor readers who employed material organized according to the textbook approach. (RB)

Reviews the research on reading achievement for the last 50 years and concludes that anyone who knows that literacy is declining is ignoring the data. (RB)

Concludes that further research into the imagery-comprehension relationship in reading is necessary. (RB)

Concludes that the "Inventory of Teacher Knowledge of Reading" is valid in discriminating between the specialist and non-specialist in reading, but that it fails to verify the seven components that the authors claim to measure. (RB)

Describes an International Reading Association award-winning dissertation which examines the use of color cues in facilitating the learning of basic reading skills. (RB)

Describes an International Reading Association award-winning dissertation designed to determine the construct validity of the cloze procedure on paragraph reading of science and social studies materials. (RB)