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Spache, George D. – 1968
College-adult reading research trends are discussed. The reading process; the influence of vision, perception, and personality; and program outcomes are noted as major trends of past studies, and a list of mistaken assumptions in these earlier studies is given. Present research shifts to the study of the role of both teacher and student…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Counseling
Download full textSummers, Edward G., Comp. – 1969
A listing of 344 dissertations completed in colleges and universities since 1966 in the areas of preschool, elementary, secondary, college, and adult reading is reported. Volumes 27 and 28 of "Dissertation Abstracts" were reviewed, and dissertations on reading were noted. A comprehensive, analytical abstract was prepared by professionals in…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Colleges
RIGGS, CORINNE W. – 1968
THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON BIBLIOTHERAPY IS COMPOSED OF 138 CITATIONS RANGING IN DATE FROM 1936 TO 1967. IT IS DESIGNED TO AID TEACHERS AND LIBRARIANS IN MODIFYING THE ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR OF BOYS AND GIRLS. ITS LISTINGS ARE ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY ACCORDING TO AUTHOR UNDER THE GENERAL DIVISIONS OF BOOKS, PERIODICALS, AND UNPUBLISHED…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliotherapy, Reading Materials, Reading Research
Elkind, David; Deblinger, Jo Ann – 1968
The theoretical orientation based on perceptual development, proposed by Piaget in 1961, is the starting point of this investigation. According to Piaget, the perception of the young child is "centered" on dominant aspects of the field. With maturity, perception becomes "decentered" and progressively freed from the field. The…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 2, Nonverbal Learning, Reading Comprehension
Figurel, J. Allen, Ed. – 1969
This book contains the formal papers that were presented at the 1968 convention of the International Reading Association. The papers discuss aspects of the following reading areas: reading instruction and materials, the curriculum in reading, reading organization, teacher education, research evaluation and reports, and issues in reading on the…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Conference Reports, Curriculum Development, International Programs
Boraks, Nancy – 1977
This paper identifies three trends in reading research that reflect the shift from an emphasis on teaching method to the examination of individual and contextual variables, an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the reading process, and the effort to develop more comprehensive models of the reading process. Three studies of cross-age and…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Peer Teaching
Paolo, Margaret Fleming – 1977
Ten easy-to-read books were examined for readability using Fry's Readability Graph and Betts' criteria for oral reading performance. Five first-grade and second-grade children read selected passages from each of the ten books. A correlation of 0.73 was obtained between rank orders according to readability graph scores and according to oral reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Masters Theses, Oral Reading, Primary Education
Kelly, Ann Marie – 1977
Ninety kindergarten, first-grade, and second-grade students participated in this study of ability to segment oral language into words and word units. Each child completed two individually administered oral segmentation tests and the Metropolitan Achievement Test. Results indicated that the ability to segment orally presented sentences developed…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Oral Language
Huff, Kent H.; And Others – 1977
This report describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of a prototypical Job-Oriented Reading Program (JORP) that stressed the acquisition and development of job-related reading skills for Air Force personnel. Design of the JORP included the special requirements that the reading grade level be set at 9.0, that student input reading…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Job Training, Military Training, Postsecondary Education
Broward County School Board, Fort Lauderdale, FL. – 1974
This study was designed to determine whether third-year pupils in a reading center project maintained their reading gains 16 months after leaving the program. Subjects consisted of two control groups and an experimental group--a random sample of third-year pupils enrolled at the reading center during the fall of the 1972-1973 school year.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement, Reading Centers
Hammond, William Thomas, Jr. – 1976
The purposes of this study were to determine the proportion of Atlanta public high school 11th and 12th grade students classified as functionally literate, marginally literate, or illiterate and to determine the significant predictors of students' performance level. A total of 430 students in randomly selected classes were administered the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Functional Literacy, High School Students, Literacy
Madison Public Schools, WI. – 1976
A study was conducted to determine the effects of class size on the reading achievement of 517 representative Madison (Wisconsin) students in a three year longitudinal sample. Data included reading achievement, IQ, attitudes toward reading, parents' and teachers' ratings of student interest in reading, sex, age, socioeconomic status, and average…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Size, Predictor Variables, Primary Education
Hoffman, Sybil M. – 1978
A study was conducted to determine the effect of a program of listening skills on the reading comprehension of fourth grade students. After a pretest, an experimental group of 12 boys and 12 girls was selected randomly from four classrooms and a control group was selected with matched pretest scores. The experimental group was taught using…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Listening Comprehension, Listening Skills
Van Nord, Joan – 1972
Information concerning the reading interests of gifted students in a secondary school composed only of students of above average intelligence is provided in this study. Specific areas discussed are: subject areas for which the students expressed like, dislike, or indifference; growth and change of reading preferences; students' responses to…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Curriculum Development, High Achievement, Questionnaires
Marshall, Nancy – 1977
Research on comprehension and recall in reading has been limited in the past to quantitative studies of the amount of text items recalled. This paper reports on two experiments that used a qualitative measure in order to investigate the differences between fluent and less fluent comprehenders and the recall processes they use. The first…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Community Colleges, Reading Ability
