This longitudinal study was a replication of two disparate studies, one of dominance and one of control, which had as subjects 277 seventh- and eighth-grade pupils remaining from an original dominance study of over 500. Eye dominance was determined through hole-in-paper and V-scope; eye control at near and far point, through the telebinocular;…

This joint investigation involving the Omaha Job Corps Center for Women and the Marquette Job Corps Center for Women assessed the remedial reading programs of the two centers. A major objective was to provide Job Corps norms for the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test, Survey E, forms 1M and 2M. Each center designated control and experimental groups.…

A total of 180 reports found relevant fo r the annual review of research on college-adult reading was treated under five major headings. Studies that dealt with trends, origin and development of programs, descriptions of specific programs, and the evaluation of the improvement of program participants were classified under the heading of programs.…

This pilot study investigated (1) the extent scanning speed can be improved through practice, (2) the learning strategies students use in attempting to improve their scanning, and (3) differences between scanning rate for stimuli presented orally and visually. Subjects were advanced college students with average reading skills. Each subject was…

The 302 reports of reading research summarized here were published between July 1, 1971, and June 30, 1972. The research has been categorized under six headings. The first category includes other summaries of research, classified as general or under specific titles. The second category consists of research literature related to teacher preparation…

The purpose of this study was to determine if the segregation of first grade children from second and third grade children resulted in improved vocabulary skills and reading comprehension skills for beginning second graders. From two carefully prescribed populations of children--one which had attended Curry School in Tempe, Arizona, from the…

A recent finding that good and poor readers may bring different response patterns to the reading task comes from a pilot study in which so-called good readers achieved a higher score on a comprehension test than did poor readers, even when they had not had a paragraph or story to read as a basis for answering the questions. This study was a more…

To determine the multivariate relationships of measures of convergent thinking, divergent thinking, and self-concept with reading achievement was the purpose of this study. Measures of verbal divergent thinking and self-concept were administered to 188 fourth and sixth grade students from an urban, lower middle class elementary school. Reading…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences and relationships among reading comprehension, conservation ability, auditory discrimination, and the visual-motor development of third grade pupils. Of 510 third grade subjects, 96 remained after exclusions were made for intelligence, vision, hearing, and age range. Twenty-four boys and…

Two New York City elementary schools were studied in depth to determine what school factors influenced reading achievement. Both schools, one high achieving and one low achieving, had half their student populations receiving welfare and had consistently high or low reading achievement scores. Findings showed that (1) differences in student…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the predictive relationships which exist between eight selected prereading measures and three criterion measures of reading achievement at the end of grade one in each of six different approaches to beginning reading instruction. Two randomly selected samples of boys and girls were the subjects. The…

The purpose of this investigation was to study the growth in self-concept of boys who were enrolled in a remedial reading clinic during a six-week summer session. Forty-two boys between the ages of 8 years 0 months and 12 years 12 months who were enrolled in the 1972 summer session of the University of Maryland Reading Clinic served as subjects.…

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a self-contained classroom approach in comparison with two other reading approaches. The self-contained approach classes consisted of fifteen pupils, all nominated by their teachers. In the self-contained approach, reading and communication skills were given the most emphasis. The students in the other two…

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between word recognition and comprehension achieved by second and fifth grade students when reading material at various levels of readability. A random sample of twenty-five second and twenty-five fifth graders, taken from three middle class schools, was administered a…

This annotated bibliography on reading education consists of 131 abstracts of Canadian masters' theses in the areas of reading instruction, reading research, and reading achievement. The masters' theses included in this document, completed at 14 Canadian Universities during a fifty year period from 1922 to 1972, are arranged in alphabetical order…