The effects of a model resource program on the reading skills of handicapped children were assessed in comparisons between handicapped students who participated in the model program and similar students who participated in the resource center program before the model was implemented. Reading skills were assessed at the beginning and end of the…

This volume contains selections from the first, second, and third yearbooks of the Southwest Reading Conference for Colleges and Universities. Articles discuss various aspects of college reading programs, including program establishment and administration, recent research on college reading, student reaction, vocabulary development, evaluation of…

The six levels of understanding used to compare the skills of achieving and nonachieving readers investigated in this study were taken from the cognitive domain of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives. It was hypothesized that there is a significant difference, favoring achieving readers, between mean total scores of achieving and…

The effects of an extended, individualized reading program on vocabulary, comprehension, and total reading skills were investigated in a sample of 39 underachieving, black seventh-grade pupils. No significant differences were found between experimental groups and control groups on any of the measures of reading achievement, but the experimental,…

Concern about the discrepancy between the reading ability of naval personnel and the level of reading material they must deal with in a naval career prompted the study summarized in this report. Focusing on literacy standards and on meeting the standards of reading difficulty and reading ability, the report discusses short-range research and…

Oral reading errors of functionally illiterate adults were compared with those of younger readers at the same achievement level. The sample consisted of 34 second- and third-grade pupils and 31 functionally illiterate adults; all subjects were reading between grade levels 2.5 and 4.0 for both word recognition and comprehension, as measured by the…

In order to identify the reading behavior and instructional needs of functionally illiterate adults reading below fourth grade level, 50 adults were identified and diagnosed on the Durrell Analysis of Reading Difficulty test and the Slosson Intelligence Test for Children and Adults. In addition, a questionnaire was administered to Oklahoma City…

This study examined the prediction of reading achievement for 144 second-, third-, and fourth-grade children in classrooms differing in program openness. Intercorrelations of nine cognitive and personality variables were factor analyzed, and four components representing creativity, conceptual tempo, attitude, and intellectuality were extracted.…

A study was designed to validate the Navy Readability Indices (NRIs) in an individualized instructional system using the criteria of comprehension and learning time. Two hundred Navy enlisted personnel enrolled in a computer-managed technical training course were tested for both comprehension and learning-time-to-criterion on four programmed…

This study compared reading-achievement scores, reading-attitude scores, and self-concept scores of fourth- and sixth-grade students of different ability levels who were taught reading with and without the use of a management system. Results indicated that fourth-grade students with STEA scores of 95 or below had better reading achievement and…

Papers collected in this volume were presented at the Fifth Annual Blumberg Symposium on Research in Early Childhood Education, held at Johns Hopkins University in 1974. Selections include "Alexia" (D. Frank Benson), "Young Children's Expectations for Reading" (Doris R. Entwisle), "Relations between Acquisition of…

Given the choice of reading or not reading books related to favorite TV programs, pupils showed they would read when their interests were engaged. (JH)

Reviewed is research on laterality and its relationship with reading in normal and learning disabled children. (CL)